2018-2019 Undergraduate and Graduate Creative Writing Awards
Graduate Nonfiction Award
Judged by Shannon Reed
"One Last Note for Paul Nervy" by Kent Kosack
The Nordan-Kinder Award in Fiction
Judged by Anjali Sachdeva
"Just Kids" Adam Brewer
The Jean Meyer Aloe Graduate Poetry Award
Judged by Kelly Andrews
"Self-Portrait in Tongues" by Joshua Palmer
The Melissa Difatta Undergraduate Nonfiction Award
Judged by Rachel Mabe
"(Mal)Adaptation" by Philippa Zang
The American Academy of Poets Undergraduate Poetry Award
Judged by Malcolm Friend
"Kusköy in Virginia" by Leyla Çoplan
The Myron Taube Award in Fiction
Judged by Morgan Treadway Kayser
First place: "Mirage" by Drue Denmon
Second place: "Sounder" by M. Jane McAndrew
Third place: "Variations on Red" by Leyla Çoplan
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Graduate Testimonials
Associate Professor and Journalism Program Chair, P.I. Reed School of Journalism, West Virginia University
I spent hours in fiction workshops, soaking up Chuck Kinder’s narrative eruptions and Buddy Nordan’s elegant constructs. I deconstructed three-act structure and plot points with Carl Kurlander. I genuflected before the masters of nonfiction reportage with Bruce Dobler and Patsy Sims. But mainly I wrote.
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