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Emory Creative Writing Contests

AWARDS NIGHT

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2008

READING BY RICHARD POWERS

WINNERS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AND
CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL COMPETITION FOR BEST ESSAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

MEGAN BOATRIGHT
"Reinterpreting the Other in Robinson Crusoe"

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL COMPETITION FOR BEST ESSAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY GRADUATE STUDENT

KARMA DE GRUY
"Desiring Angels: The Angelic Body in Paradise Lost"

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ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY STUDENT

SIMON B. KRESS
"Three Nocturnes for Lady Day"

HONORABLE MENTION:
SAMYUKTA MULLANGI
"The Proposal"

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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN POETRY FOR BEST POETRY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

PETER NGUYEN
"Pinkville"

HONORABLE MENTION:
JENNIFER ANN TAYLOR
"Muerte de la Piñata"

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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN FICTION FOR BEST FICTION WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

SARAH WALLACE
"Pérdida"

HONORABLE MENTION:
ARIELLE MEDFORD
"Coloring the Corners and the Floor"

HONORABLE MENTION:
KELLY ALICE BAHLKE
"Laughing in the Hospital"

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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN DRAMA FOR BEST PLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

DANIELLE BERMAN
"Personality Inked"

HONORABLE MENTION:
VANA DABNEY
"One Man, Under Gods"

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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN CREATIVE NON-FICTION FOR BEST NON-FICTION WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

WHITNEY WRIGHT
"San Antonio"

HONORABLE MENTION:
ERIC BETTS
"The White Album"

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KIKAG SCREENWRITER'S PRIZE FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

SHELBY FARRELL
"What You Want"

HONORABLE MENTION:
RANJIT RAJU
"El Samurai"

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THE JOHNSTON FELLOWSHIP FOR TRAVEL AND RESEARCH

MICHELLE SIMS
To support study and research at the Library of Congress and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, towards an honors thesis on female story-tellers and protagonists in the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer

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THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

STEPHANIE BERGER
For her superior work in the field of American literature

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GRACE ABERNATHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING

WHITNEY WRIGHT
For prose writing with a strong sense of the past and of place, and with an extraordinary promise for the future

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