Past Winners-English Department and Creative Writing Program Contests and Scholarships

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

AUDREY RUAN
Essay: "Here Lies Queen Elizabeth I"
Audrey Ruan is a third year pre-medical student on track to double major in Neuroscience and English. She loves learning about the relationships between literature and science and dreams of being a neurologist.
HONORABLE MENTION:
SHREYA PABBARAJU
Essay: " 'The Reeve's Tail' Remixed: Gender Swaps and Women-Props in Agbabi's 'Tit for Tat' "
Shreya Pabbaraju is a fourth year senior double majoring in Political Science and Creative Writing. Next year, she will be pursuing an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Oxford with the Shephard Scholarship. Her works have been published in Agnes Scott Writers Festival, Bangalore Review, and more.

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

LAUREN HIGHSMITH
Essay: "Riding Without Reigns: The Role of the Barbarian Horse in The Battle of Alcazar"
Lauren Highsmith is an English PhD Candidate whose research explores issues, concepts, and phenomena of (Black) (popular) American culture; intersections between literature and music; ethics; and anachronistic readings of (African) American literature. She is currently working on her dissertation, "Finding Black Futurity in Wondaland."
ARIEL LAWRENCE
Essay: "Autobiography from the Graveyard: Kinship, Mourning, and Fugitivity in the Abyss"
Ariel Lawrence is a doctoral student in the English Department at Emory. She works with Black Nonfiction broadly, focusing specifically on memoirs written by Black women across the African Diaspora. Her work both examines practices of collective and public mourning and ponders the aporia of Black survival.

THE JAMES RICHARDSON AWARD FOR DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN AFRICAN AMERICAN OR AMERICAN LITERATURE

LAUREN HIGHSMITH
Dissertation: "Finding Black Futurity in Wondaland"
Lauren Highsmith is an English PhD Candidate whose research explores issues, concepts, and phenomena of (Black) (popular) American culture; intersections between literature and music; ethics; and anachronistic readings of (African) American literature. She is currently working on her dissertation, "Finding Black Futurity in Wondaland."

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

MATTHEW BUXTON
Poem: "Vii"
Matthew Buxton, originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, is a sophomore at Emory University double majoring in Chemistry and Creative Writing. Poetry has become a way for him to reconcile his identity as a gay man with his upbringing in the LDS faith, challenge the harmful rhetoric from the Church towards queer people, and find normalcy in the expression of queer love through writing.
HONORABLE MENTION:
ANNA LINDQUIST
Poem: "I See You"
Anna Lindquist is a Creative Writing major and Ethics minor from St. Louis, MO. She serves on the OFA Student Panel. Anna was previously involved in OxTheater and Oxford Photography Club and enjoys different types of artistic expression. She spends most of her free time reading fiction and poetry and taking photos. 

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

CYNTHIA SALINAS-CAPPELLANO
Poem: "Prayer"
Cynthia Salinas Cappellano is a rising sophomore in the Creative Writing program at Emory. She is previously unpublished in poetry. You can usually find her writing mythic poems about women or making resin sculptures. She is from Iowa but if you ask her, she'll say South Omaha, Nebraska.
HONORABLE MENTION:
NOREEN OCAMPO
Poem: "Yesterday, I watched videos on manifesting"
Noreen Ocampo is a junior double-majoring in English and Film and Media. She is also a literary associate for UC Berkeley’s {m}aganda magazine, a regular contributor for Marías at Sampaguitas, and a blog co-editor for COUNTERCLOCK. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Hobart, Taco Bell Quarterly, and more.

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

PANISARA JAIJONGKIT
Story: "Welcome to Monkey World"
Born and raised in Bangkok, Por has found a new home in Atlanta, and is studying Creative Writing and Environmental Science, hoping to combine the two. When she is not writing or procrastinating writing, she is busy trying to figure out how to be an adult.
HONORABLE MENTION:
TAMAR SIDI
Story: "Renewal"
Tamar Sidi is a senior at Emory University majoring in English/Creative Writing. Her prose has been published in Rainy Day Literary Magazine and the Susquehanna Review. Tamar is a native New Yorker who draws inspiration from her diverse heritage and love of travel to explore contrasting cultures in her writing.  

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

WILLIAM O'NEAL II
Play: For All the Strange Boys Who Didn’t Get to Grow Up
William O’Neal II is soon to graduate from the playwriting program at Emory University. He writes coming-of-age stories mixed with body horror, magical realism and tones of hopeful melancholia. Will works to make people feel seen in every project he produces. Will currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
HONORABLE MENTION:
DREW MINDELL
Play: "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare (or at least our best approximation)
D.A. Mindell is a third-year playwriting major and Hebrew minor, originally from New Haven, Connecticut. Past recognition includes the David L. Shelton Award and the Michael J. Kinsler Award, and he has worked for Theater Emory, Sojourn, the Wellfleet Harbor Actors' Theater, and the Alliance Theater.

ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN CREATIVE NONFICTION FOR BEST NONFICTION WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

JASMINE CUI
Nonfiction story: "Variations on My Chinese"
Jasmine is an economist and aspiring writer, and a senior majoring in Political Science and Economics. Most importantly, she is the proud daughter of immigrants who have fought for their place in this country.
HONORABLE MENTION:
SHEENA HOLT
Nonfiction story: "The Cat Is Dead"
Sheena Holt is a sophomore creative writing and political science major from San Francisco, California. A passionate student of prose, she hopes to one day become a novelist and professor of creative writing herself. You can find her work at Lithium Magazine, Adolescent Content, and The Rubbertop Review. 

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

GARRETT BYRNE
Screenplay: Implicated
Garrett Byrne is a freshman from North Carolina who is passionate about film and creative writing. He is planning on majoring in film and media studies along with sociology.
HONORABLE MENTION:
SHREYA TIBREWALA
Screenplay: Chotu
Shreya Tibrewala, 21, is a BBA and Film & Media Management major at Goizueta Business School. She takes inspiration for her writing from people whose stories move her. Her storylines aim to give voice to the voiceless and remain true to and represent her Indian culture.

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

LOUISE LIU
For consistently excellent coursework in English and for significant contributions to the intellectual life of the English Department, most especially, by mobilizing undergraduate participation in the department's search for a new faculty member in the area of Asian American, Pacific Rim, and Transnational Asian literature and culture.
Louise Liu is a senior English major pursuing a concentration in marginalized voices. She enjoys watching video essays, reviewing films, and getting involved in activism. After traveling to Taiwan as a 2021-22 Fulbright Scholar, she hopes to pursue a career in the media industry and continue to write.

THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

TRIPP BURTON
For excellence in coursework on American literature and an outstanding honors thesis entitled "The Blacklist and the Witches: The Crucible and Conspiratorial Cancellations of Innocuous Adversaries in Communist America."
Tripp Burton is from Noblesville, Indiana, and majors in Business and English. He is a Student Assistant for the men’s Varsity Basketball Team, a staff writer for The Emory Wheel, and a member of the Student Programming Council and Emory Peer Review Board. 

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

STEPHEN ALTOBELLI
For sustained excellence in coursework in the English major and a dedication to exploring how archival research can transform our understandings of modernist literature.

Stephen Altobelli is a third-year English major from Westminster, Massachusetts. He is an Arts and Entertainment editor at the Emory Wheel, a Resident Advisor for the Clairmont community, and an Advising Fellow with Matriculate.

AUDREY RUAN
For sustained excellence in coursework in the English major and a dedication to exploring the intersections of literature and science.

Audrey Ruan is a third year pre-medical student on track to double major in Neuroscience and English. She loves learning about the relationships between literature and science and dreams of being a neurologist.


THE EAGLE AWARD IN FIRST-YEAR WRITING

ALEXIS T. CAMPBELL
Multimodal composition: "Camouflage"

Lexy Campbell is a freshman at Emory interested in study chemistry or neuroscience on the pre-med track. She is involved in her sorority at Pi Beta Phi, Emory Hope, Red Cross, and APCO. After college, she hopes to obtain a medical degree or pursue a career within the sciences.

MURIEL STATMAN
Essay: "Disparate Dignities: Images of the Dead"
Muriel Statman is a first-year student from Boston, Massachusetts studying Sociology and Chemistry on the pre-med track. She is a first-year representative for the Young Democrats of Emory, a first-year liaison for the Emory Undergraduate Medical Review, a member of the Hillel First-Year Council, and an incoming writing center tutor.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
BEN ARCHER
Autoethnography: "Real Men Wear Pink"

Benjamin Archer is a sophomore at Oxford College majoring in Psychology & Linguistics. He looks forward to his transition to Emory College of Arts and Sciences in the fall where he will work in the Emory College Writing Center and continue to help his peers.  

ANJI NI:
Autoethnography: "Personality Changes of Bilinguals in a Second Language"

Anji Ni is a first-year international student from China at Oxford campus. She plans to double major in chemistry and QSS, and enjoys sports such as tennis and cycling as well as reading during her free time.


THE TOM-CHRIS ALLEN SCHOLARSHIP

TANIKA DEUSKAR
For her resolute investigation and narrative that peeled back 114 years of history to animate the life and times of George Union Wilder, a survivor of enslavement and a Civil War injury who then died at the hands of a white mob during the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre. 

Tanika Deuskar grew up in Bangalore, India. At Emory, she is double majoring in Biology and English & Creative Writing. She hopes to use her writing and story-telling skills to effectively communicate science to a broad audience.


THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NONFICTION)

JAKE BUSCH
For looking past official statements by law enforcement officials to seek the true story behind the mysterious death of a key witness to a racially motivated killing by white police in southwest Georgia in 1958, and for finding the witness’s family who revealed a shocking counter-narrative.
Jake Busch is a junior majoring in history and creative writing. He writes opinions and is a member of the Editorial Board for the Emory Wheel. He is interested in pursuing careers in journalism, law, and advocacy.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NON-GENRE SPECIFIC)

CHRISTOPHER LABAZA
For the unblinking clarity and humanity with which he sees into the hearts of his characters and into their world, bringing it all to life with a few clean, deft strokes of his pen.

Christopher Labaza is a third-year Creative Writing major from Cary, North Carolina, who has a passion for fiction writing. Beyond the classroom, he is a satirist for the Emory Spoke, an editorial cartoonist for the Emory Wheel, and a musician with the Emory Wind Ensemble.


THE SCHUCHARD PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER, PROJECT OR HONORS THESIS WRITTEN ON THE BASIS OF PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL IN A CLASS OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

TBA


LOUIS B. SUDLER PRIZE IN THE ARTS

TBA
The Sudler Prize in the Arts is awarded each year to the graduating senior or seniors who have demonstrated the highest standard of proficiency in one or more of the performing or creative arts. It may be given for performance, execution, or composition in the field of music, theater, dance, creative writing, film, visual arts, or allied areas of artistic endeavor.

 

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

DELANY SHELDON
"Perversity and Perspective in The Buddha of Suburbia"
HONORABLE MENTION:
ANNIE COHEN
"A New Generation of Gothic"

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

JOHN GULLEDGE
"Laughing With/At Cripple in The Fair Maid of the Exchange"

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

NICOLE SADEK
"Hushpuppies"
HONORABLE MENTION:
SHREYA PABBARAJU
"Mumma's Bedtime Sonnets"

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

SHREYA PABBARAJU
"Air for Pushpa"
HONORABLE MENTION:
NICOLE SADEK
"Americana"

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

YUAN LISA ZHUANG
"Thanksgiving"
HONORABLE MENTION:
BRANDON SCHETTLER
"Progression"

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

BEVERLEY SYLVESTER
Becoming
HONORABLE MENTION:
MANDY MA
And I See You All in Blue

ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN CREATIVE NONFICTION FOR BEST NONFICTION WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

EMMA KANTOR
"Socially Anxious"
HONORABLE MENTION:
ADESOLA THOMAS
"I Am 21 and Teaching My Mother How to Love Me"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

ERIKA MACARTHUR
Greek Life
HONORABLE MENTION:
WILL O'NEAL
Lil Rose

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

ADESOLA THOMAS
For her significant contributions to the intellectual life of the English Department, including sustained excellence and enthusiasm in English courses on a wide variety of literary and cultural topics and the completion of a senior thesis with high honors, which explored the transhistorical nature of political satire, from the eighteenth-century to Saturday Night Live.

THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

EMILY SHARP
For excellence in coursework on American literature and an outstanding honors project entitled Roy Cohn’s America: Conservatism, Sexual Politics, and Memory in the 21st Century.

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

PAIGE SAFCHIK
For sustained excellence in coursework in the English major and her dedication to exploring the intellectual riches of both archival research and literary theory.
DELANEY SHELDON
For sustained excellence in coursework in the English major and her sustained exploration of how literature illuminates issues regarding religion, gender studies, history, and humanity in general.

THE EAGLE AWARD IN FIRST-YEAR WRITING
TRINITY TUNSTALL
Essay: "Learning Language: Literacy Narrative, Part Two"
RUNNER-UP:
KELLY MARTINEZ
Essay: "Why Elite Public High Schools Fail: Words From Outside Stuyvesant"
RUNNER-UP:
FAITH FORD
Essay: "Cultural Imposter Syndrome"
HONORABLE MENTION:
AAYRA AAMER
Essay: "Documenting the Truth: History Through a Lens"
HONORABLE MENTION:
KATIE BALDERSON
Essay: "The Rhetoric of Glacial Melting: Scientific Literature Versus Popular Science"

 


THE JAMES RICHARDSON AWARD FOR DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN AFRICAN AMERICAN OR AMERICAN LITERATURE

SOPHIA LEONARD
Dissertation: "Made in the Magazines: Truman Capote’s Early Nonfiction Writings"
JESS LIBOW
Dissertation: "Political Movement: Ability, Sex, and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century U.S."

THE TOM-CHRIS ALLEN SCHOLARSHIP

CAMERON KATZ
More than six decades after Washington Post reporter Robert E. Lee Baker went into Dawson, Terrell County, Georgia, to investigate a reign of terror by white police officers against black residents, Cameron Katz figured out how Baker got that pivotal front-page story in 1958, assessed its extraordinary impact inside the Justice Department, and showed how now-available records reveal the remarkable accuracy of his controversial story.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NONFICTION)

MALLORY CRAIG
For seeing, then taking us inside, the wild and unpredictable life of an Atlanta wedding planner; for superlative reporting, observing and interviewing that spilled out in true-life anecdotes that were chaotic, comedic and cinematic; then for becoming a wedding planner’s assistant to experience the back-stage drama first-hand, including the rapid resurrection of a multi-tier wedding cake that was about to implode.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NON-GENRE SPECIFIC)

NATALIE MERIZALDE
For the crackling energy of her sentences and the characters who inhabit them.

LOUIS B. SUDLER PRIZE IN THE ARTS

LUCY WAINGER and GABY DAVIS
The Sudler Prize in the Arts is awarded each year to the graduating senior or seniors who have demonstrated the highest standard of proficiency in one or more of the performing or creative arts. It may be given for performance, execution, or composition in the field of music, theater, dance, creative writing, film, visual arts, or allied areas of artistic endeavor.

MARION LUTHER BRITTAIN AWARD

SAMAH MEGHJEE and CODY LONG
The Marion Luther Brittain Award is presented each year to two graduating students (one undergraduate and one graduate) from any academic division of the University who are considered to have performed the most "significant, meritorious, and devoted service to Emory University." Considered the highest honor presented to a student by Emory University, Brittain recognizes two students whose contributions to Emory are outstanding. The award is made under provisions of a gift by the late Dr. M.L. Brittain, former President of Georgia Institute of Technology and alumnus of Emory.

 

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

NATHAN BLANSETT
"Objects Revised: Queer Characterization in Iris Murdoch's The Bell"
ZACH STIENEKER
"Even Some Fiction Might Be Useful': Characterizing Climate Change and Imagining Futures in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JOSH OBERLANDER-DENNY
"A Comparative Analysis of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Bertolt Brecht's The Duchess of Malfi"
HONORABLE MENTION:
MATTIE WORSHAM
"Helen Oyeyemi's White is for Witching: The Vampire-ish and the Postcolonial Female Gothic"

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

JOSHUA COHEN
"That 'great pilot of ancient times': The Dangers of the Moses Complex in Invisible Man"

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

ANNIE LI
"No Light"
HONORABLE MENTION:
CHRISTELL ROACH
"The Women Leave You With Children"

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

ILINA LOGANI
"Disremembering: A Ghazal"
HONORABLE MENTION:
KIRA TUCKER
"On Soul, Signs & Suicide Songs"

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

MEG WALTERS
"Drive"
HONORABLE MENTION:
DAVID NOLAN
"Animals"

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

JULIA BYRNE
Chance and Faith
HONORABLE MENTION:
ZACK LEVIN
Shut Up and Let Me Scream

ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN CREATIVE NONFICTION FOR BEST NONFICTION WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

MATTIE WORSHAM
"Highly Flammable Girls"
HONORABLE MENTION:
ILINA LOGANI
"The Pathologist's Daughter"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

EMMA KANTOR
HL3N
HONORABLE MENTION:
SAMAH MEGHJEE
Hot Dog

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

COURTNEY SHIN
For her significant contributions to the intellectual life of the English Department, including sustained excellence and enthusiasm in English courses on a wide variety of literary and cultural topics, the completion of a senior thesis with highest honors, and a presentation of her research from Emory courses at the Native American Literature Symposium.

THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

ZACH STIENEKER
For excellence in coursework on American literature and an outstanding essay titled "The Attentive Eye: Photography and Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Nature'."

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

MOIRA MEIJAARD
For sustained excellence in coursework in the English major, participation in conferences and community-based learning initiatives, and focused pursuit of her research interests on marginalized identities and, more specifically, on Gloria Anzaldua's "destruction of stereotypes through rhetorical appeals."

THE EAGLE AWARD IN FIRST-YEAR WRITING

KATE APPEL:
Essay: "Defining Patti Smith as Punk"
HONORABLE MENTION:
SARAH SWIDERSKI
Essay: "The Utilization of Comics to Establish Fluidity in Emotional Development"
HONORABLE MENTION:
WILL JOHNSON
Essay: "Coping with Reality in Never Let Me Go: Narrative, Memory, and Art"
HONORABLE MENTION:
ANN SINSUAN
Essay: "Literacy Narrative: “Hmm…A Key Experience"

THE SCHUCHARD PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER, PROJECT OR HONORS THESIS WRITTEN ON THE BASIS OF PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL IN A CLASS OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

TBA

THE JAMES RICHARDSON AWARD FOR DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN AFRICAN AMERICAN OR AMERICAN LITERATURE

KAYLA SHIPP KAMIBAYASHI
Dissertation: "The Secret Lives of Poems; or, Digital Inhabitations of Nineteenth-Century American Literature"

THE TOM-CHRIS ALLEN SCHOLARSHIP

ERIN OQUINDO
For smart reporting, creative evidence-gathering and clear explanatory writing that showed how police officers who are quick to shoot and kill often do so not because they lack training but precisely because of their training. Their mantra, Oquindo wrote: “Better judged by 12 than carried by six.”
PRESLEY WEST
For putting her readers in the middle of a racially-charged southern courtroom in 1962 to witness an influential white segregationist lawyer go head-to-head against the most prominent black lawyer in Georgia. West’s perceptive, astutely-reported and fluidly written account captures the cinematic dramaturgy all the way to the surprise ending.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NONFICTION)

SABRINA NARGIZ
For taking us with her as she witnessed and wrote an absorbing, honest, day-in-the-life profile of an indefatigable, streetwise advocate for abused women; and for her separate piece on how Georgia police officers accused of crimes came to enjoy extraordinary protections and privileges unlike police in any other state.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NON-GENRE SPECIFIC)

JOI MASSAT
For her ability to create compelling characters, musical prose, and a presentation of alternate states of perception that never lose or confuse her reader. Her work, emanating from her singular vision, is equally compassionate and innovative.

 

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

CHRISTELL ROACH
"Race, Performance, and the Shaping of the ‘Bluesman’ Among the Beat Generation"
HONORABLE MENTION:
NAMRATA VERGHESE
"Reinventing the ‘Other’: Race and the Nation in ‘Black Box’ "

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

JOSHUA COHEN
"Moses vs. the Masses: Alain Locke, Aesthetic Uplift, and Zora Neale Hurston"

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

CHRISTELL ROACH
"On the End of Mango Season, and Still Falling Fruit"
HONORABLE MENTION:
NATHAN BLANSETT
"MMXVII"

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

MADISON DALTON
"That Which Remains"
HONORABLE MENTION:
NORA SULLIVAN
"Wing in Parts"

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

WADIAN MASSOUD
"Cigarettes and Candy"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JACQUELYN KRAUT
"Renata"

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

MAX MCCREARY
"Phantasmagoria"
HONORABLE MENTION:
TALIA GREEN
"Public Transportation"

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

NAMRATA VERGHESE
"Desi Girl"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JACQUELYN KRAUT
"Again"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

DANIEL MORA
"Tightrope"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JAMES SADLO
"0655"

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

MARGARET PAVLESZEK
For her consistent excellence in English Department courses, contributions to the culture of the English Department, completion of a senior thesis of high quality, and, in the words of her faculty nominator, her talents as a "perceptive reader who is especially sensitive to the representation of gender and sexuality."
COURTNEY MURRAY
For her consistent excellence in English Department courses, contributions to the culture of the English Department, completion of a senior thesis of high quality, and, in the words of her faculty nominator, her ability to "bring others into deeper engagement with literature, scholarship, and their own self-expression in the English language."

THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

JAMISON MURPHY
For sustained excellence and originality in his coursework and scholarship in the field of American literature, and in the words of his faculty nominator, for being "naturally curious, with strong conceptual abilities, capable of grasping and making use of sophisticated literary and cultural theory."

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

NATHAN BLANSETT
In recognition of originality and academic success in English and Creative Writing courses and his ongoing commitment to literary study, both as an intellectual pursuit in its own right and as inspiration for his continued creative work.
MONTSERRAT ZAMORA
In recognition of her academic accomplishments and enthusiasm across a variety of English Department courses, and especially of her sustained interest in questions of immigration and empathy in nineteenth-century fiction.

THE JOHNSTON FELLOWSHIPS FOR TRAVEL AND RESEARCH

CHRISTELL ROACH
To facilitate research and interviews in Atlanta, Indianapolis, and New York relating to her project The Bridge is Blue: Bridging the Gender Gap in Blues Through the Poetry of Mari Evans.
NATHAN BLANSETT
To facilitate travel and research in Vienna, Austria relating to his in-progress poetry manuscript, Long Exposure.

THE SCHUCHARD PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER, PROJECT OR HONORS THESIS WRITTEN ON THE BASIS OF PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL IN A CLASS OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

CLAUDIA TUNG
Paper: "Textual Transformation: Intertextuality in Medbh Meguckian’s Works"
HONORABLE MENTION:
HANNAH CHRISTIANSON
"Alice Walker and Female Genital Mutilation"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JACQUELINE VELIZ
Work for an Exhibition: "Stepping Out of Line: LGBT Activism at Emory"

THE JAMES RICHARDSON AWARD FOR DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN AFRICAN AMERICAN OR AMERICAN LITERATURE

JOSHUA COHEN
Dissertation: "Echoes of Exodus: Biblical Typology and Racial Solidarity in African American Literature, 1829-1962"
RALEIGH MIXON ROBINSON
Dissertation: "Between Stations: American Liberty and Locomotion from Walden to Plessy"

THE TOM-CHRIS ALLEN SCHOLARSHIP

MATTIE WORSHAM
For her personal essays that make her life well worth reading, with experiences that are raw and, at times, reckless, and for a wise selection of words, her smooth movement through scenes, and her discipline with dialogue that give muscle and importance to her stories.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NONFICTION)

BRIA GOELLER
For her creative instincts, clear visuals and command of animated language to breath life into a house -- a vacation house -- that defined her youth, lives in her heart, and will comfortably take residence in the mind of any reader.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NON-GENRE SPECIFIC)

KELLY DOYLE
For her growth as a writer and a creative thinker, one who has recently begun really exploring the hearts of her characters in an open and moving way, and from whom we expect great things.
NATHAN BLANSETT
For his ability to write the erotic impulse in service of the lyric moment.

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

KYLIE BAKER
"Translation as a Precursor to Sexual Coercion in Astrophil and Stella"
JAMISON MURPHY
"Raceless Outlaw, Black Criminal: Power and Racial Indeterminacy in Light in August"

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

RACHEL KOLB
"The Brain’s ‘Instantaneous Inventions’: Exploring the Discursive Normalcy and Pathology of Mishearings"

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

LUCY WAINGER
"Memorandum: September"
HONORABLE MENTION:
LAUREN ABUNASSAR
"Inventory"

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

EMIRICUS BROWN
"Sonnet 12: Etiket"
HONORABLE MENTION:
ADRIC TENUTA
"Metrics of a Pandemic"
HONORABLE MENTION:
NICOLE SADEK
"al-Qiddissin"

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

KYLIE BAKER
"Aurora's End"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JACQUELYN KRAUT
"Brookside Senior Center"

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

TALIA GREEN
"Boots"
HONORABLE MENTION:
ROSALIND SULLIVAN-LOVETT
"Next Week"

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

KATHERINE HUR
"Retrograde"
HONORABLE MENTION:
KELLY DOYLE
"A Cup of Hot Chocolate"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

MATTHEW BERNS
"Murmuration"
HONORABLE MENTION:
ETHAN BUNZEL
"Tissues and Cider"

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

JULIA LEE
For her consistent excellence in English Department courses, contributions to the culture of the English department, and the achievement of highest honors for a thesis on narratives of artistic development in the work of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.
LEILA VARZI
For her consistent excellence in English Department courses, contributions to the culture of the English department, and the achievement of highest honors for a thesis on the blending of the textual and the visual in the work of Marjane Satrapi and rupi kaur.

THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

JOSHUA KHALIF
For sustained excellence and originality in his coursework and scholarship in the field of American literature. 

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

NORA SULLIVAN
In recognition of her academic success in English and Creative Writing courses and her ongoing commitment to literary study, both as an intellectual pursuit in its own right and as inspiration for her continued creative work.

THE TOM-CHRIS ALLEN SCHOLARSHIP

NAMRATA VERGHESE
For her mature honesty and a strong descriptive language which highlight her nonfiction work as she recalls, explores and reveals the evolution of her self-understanding at various milestones in her well-traveled young life.

THE SCHUCHARD PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER, PROJECT OR HONORS THESIS WRITTEN ON THE BASIS OF PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL IN A CLASS OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

SIERRA CORTNER
"The Power of Design: Indoctrination of Class and Domestic Ideals in William Morris’s Kelmscott Chaucer"
HONORABLE MENTION:
MARY CATE SULLIVAN
"The Importance of Humanity in the Telling of History"
HONORABLE MENTION:
GABRIEL MORBECK
"One Nigeria? Nnamdi Azikiwe and the Erasure of Biafran Identity"

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NONFICTION)

MATTIE WORSHAM
For bringing her sophisticated command of a unique story-telling structure to a deeply personal examination of a friendship that is both newfound and profound, cast against the constancy of fleeting relationships.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NON-GENRE SPECIFIC)

MADISON DALTON
For her excellence both in the writing of poetry and fiction, with a lyrical voice that adapts to each of these forms..

THE LOUIS B. SUDLER PRIZE IN THE ARTS

DARBY JARDELEZA
The Sudler Prize in the Arts is awarded each year to the graduating senior or seniors who have demonstrated the highest standard of proficiency in one or more of the performing or creative arts. It may be given for performance, execution, or composition in the field of music, theater, dance, creative writing, film, visual arts, or allied areas of artistic endeavor. This prize, accompanied by a cash award of $6,000, is awarded at the College Honors Program each commencement. Nominations are made by arts departments and programs

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

CAROLINE SCHMIDT
"Intellectual Pornography: Figurative Language as Metaphysical Explorations"

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

RACHEL KOLB
"Seeing Things Invisible to Moral Sight: The Interaction of Melancholy and Blindness in Milton's Poetry"

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

CAROLINE SCHMIDT
"Reflection"
HONORABLE MENTION:
NATHAN BLANSETT
"Beach House"

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

CHRISTINE MARELLA
"Dream Study"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JASON EHRENZELLER
"Regreso"

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

KATHERINE HUR
"On Borrowed Time"
HONORABLE MENTION:
DARBY JARDELEZA
"One in the Hand"

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

ANN HUGHES
"The Younger"
HONORABLE MENTION:
EMILY SCHLOSS
"Rice Pudding"

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

LAUREN ABUNASSAR
"Ten Miles from Saturn"
HONORABLE MENTION:
CAROLINE SCHMIDT
"Reflections on a Face"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

EMILY VAN DEN BERG
"360 DEGREES OF SEPARATION"
HONORABLE MENTION:
REEM AL-ATASSI
"Sundance"

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

JENNA KINGSLEY
For her consistent excellence in English Department courses and her passion for medieval literature, and for producing a senior thesis worthy of Highest Honors.

THE JOHNSTON FELLOWSHIPS FOR TRAVEL AND RESEARCH

SIERRA CORTNER
To facilitate research at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles for an exciting senior thesis proposal on William Morris and the Kelmscott Chaucers.
LAUREN ABUNASSAR
To encourage a rich autobiographical research project on the relationship of personal identity to the geographical places one has inhabited.

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

KAITLYN POSA
In recognition of her commitment to reading and learning, and her academic success in studying the long history of the British novel.

THE TOM-CHRIS ALLEN SCHOLARSHIP

LAUREN ABUNASSAR
For a provocative, sophisticated and beautifully paced essay about her struggle to understand the sound of sibling's sudden silence and the creative power of acoustical voids.

THE SCHUCHARD PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER, PROJECT OR HONORS THESIS WRITTEN ON THE BASIS OF PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL IN A CLASS OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

SYDNEY HERTZ
"Form, Integrity and Sprinkle of Faerie Dust: How Paul Muldoon's Translations Honor the Essence of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poetry"

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NONFICTION)

MATTIE WORSHAM
For an intensely honest personal essay about the dissolution and resolution of friendships, captured in carefully wrought language that renders human experience in a compelling way.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NON-GENRE SPECIFIC)

CAROLINE SCHMIDT
For an attention to character and scene that makes use of the personal experience, moving beyond it to the lyric moment of epiphany.

THE LOUIS B. SUDLER PRIZE IN THE ARTS

JENNY WU
The Sudler Prize in the Arts is awarded each year to the graduating senior or seniors who have demonstrated the highest standard of proficiency in one or more of the performing or creative arts. It may be given for performance, execution, or composition in the field of music, theater, dance, creative writing, film, visual arts, or allied areas of artistic endeavor. This prize, accompanied by a cash award of $6,000, is awarded at the College Honors Program each commencement. Nominations are made by arts departments and programs.

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

HANNAH MORIARTY
"Trethewey's Textual Body"

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

AMY ELKINS
"The ‘Fibre of Her Being’: H.D.’s Craft Modernism from Egypt to WWII"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JENNY BLEDSOE
"Fashioning Fleshly Connections: The Virgin, the Vernacular, and MS Royal 17 A. xxvii"

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

JENNY WU
"The Churchyard"
HONORABLE MENTION:
LIANA MEFFERT
"Black Cement Serenade"

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

CAROLINE SCHMIDT
"Appetite"
HONORABLE MENTION:
LIANA MEFFERT
"We're All Here to Kiss Someone"

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

REEM AL-ATASSI
"Past the Fence"
HONORABLE MENTION:
ZACHARY ISSENBERG
"The Biography of Barton Rubenfarb"

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

MAYA BRADFORD
"The Missionary"

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

ELAINA KIM
"Splice"
HONORABLE MENTION:
KATHERINE HUR
"Color Theory"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

EUGENE AHN
"Four Minutes and Counting"
HONORABLE MENTION:
MAYA BRADFORD
"Two Villages"

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

LUCY WEBSTER
In recognition of her many academic achievements, her invaluable service to the English department, and her whole-hearted commitment to intellectual fellowship.

THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

REBECCA MORRIS
For achieving the highest level of distinction in the study of American literature, as made especially evident in her writing on African American literary and cultural traditions.

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

LAUREN LEFFELL
For her commitment and passion for reading and learning, particularly for her ability to unite her disciplinary interests in literature and psychology in thoughtful and fruitful ways.

THE ROBERT T. JONES SCHOLARSHIP TRAVEL STIPEND

SARA STAVILE
In recognition of her achievement as a winner of a 2015 Robert T. (Bobby) Jones Scholarship.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN JOURNALISM

MORGAN MANELLA
Morgan Manella is a junior co-majoring in Journalism and Media Studies. Passionate about news reporting and writing, she loves to investigate, interact with others, and tell stories through diverse media. Morgan is an editor for two online publications at Emory, Her Campus and Spoon University. She spends her free time on all forms of social media, exploring ATL restaurants, and watching Netflix. Her goal is to pursue a career in broadcast journalism and possibly host her own talk show.
KARISHMA MEHROTRA
Tempted to leave Emory after the Dean announced the Journalism Program would be terminated, Karishma Mehrotra decided to stay, to the benefit of the entire campus. She has brought a fresh attitude and energy to her journalism pursuits in the classroom and on the Emory Wheel, the AJC, the Wall Street Journal and, this summer, The Boston Globe. And she keeps a nifty 3.9 GPA.

GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING
REEM AL-ATASSI
For musical language and clear, clean sentences in which a remarkable vision of human beings begins to shine, and for a sense of story that crosses borders and boundaries to a core of truth.

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

RACHEL BOTTOMS
"Clippings, Castration, Creation: A Semi-Psychoanalytic Reading of Hemingway's The Garden of Eden."
LOGAN LOCKNER
"Nature and Distortion of the Subject: Anticipating Posthumanism in Wolff's Fiction From 'The Mark on the Wall' to Between the Acts."

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

DORI COBLENTZ
"Twins in a Pinch: Pedagogy, Temporality, and Subjectivity in The Comedy of Errors"
HONORABLE MENTION: HANNAH MARKLEY
"Radical Translations: Drugs, Femininity, and the Construction of Textual Perceptibility in Les Paradis artificiels"

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

EMORY BELL
"Honesty"
HONORABLE MENTION: TURNER BYRD
"Mystic"

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

SU RIN CHO
"Fermented"
HONORABLE MENTION: MAYA BRADFORD
"A Prayer for La Llorona"

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

MAYA BRADFORD
"Black and Color"
HONORABLE MENTION: ZACHARY KELLY
"Jared Fang, Reptile Wrangler"

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

JAKE KRAKOVSKY
"Yankl on the Moon"
HONORABLE MENTION: ANNA MILLARD
"What My Mother Told Me"

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

EMILY GUTIERREZ
"Embedded in the Skin"
HONORABLE MENTION: ANTHONY WALNER
"Smile4Waxy"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

GRACE (YOUNG EUN) KIM
"Detour"
HONORABLE MENTION: KEVIN RODRIGUEZ
"Chauffeurs"

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

RACHEL BOTTOMS
For her brilliance, wit, and generous spirit in and beyond the English classroom.

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

LUCY WEBSTER
Lucy Webster did not arrive at Emory from her home in Maine planning to be an English major. Over the course of her time at Oxford College, then Atlanta, however, she found herself drawn to literature and cultural studies in a way that fostered great creativity and interdisciplinary work. Her focus on indigenous cultures has produced outstanding work that the Harry and Sue Rusche Scholarship honors and supports.

GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING

JE EUN PARK
For a young writer whose fierce love of language and intense honesty promise a rich career as a storyteller.

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

STEFFI DELCOURT
"A Question of Love: The Nature of Lancelot and Guinevere’s Affair in Le Chevalier de la Charrete"

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

EMILY LEITHAUSER
"A History of the Persistence of Memory: Anthony Hecht’s ‘The Book of Yolek’ "

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

ALEX RIDDLE
"Sin Country"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JENNY WU
"Die Brücke"

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

DANA SOKOLOWSKI
"The Statues"
HONORABLE MENTION:
ANDREW JONES
"joga bonito"

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

KIMBERLY EDMUNDS
"Cargo"
HONORABLE MENTION:
EMILY GUTIERREZ
"The Lamp"

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

ZACHARY KELLY
"Next Stop, Outer Space"
HONORABLE MENTION:
EMILY SCHLOSS
"Rice Pudding"

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

LAUREN ABUNASSAR
"Ten Miles from Saturn"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JAKE KRAKOWSKY and SETH LANGER
"Peelings"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

ANTHONY WALNER
"Match"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JAE-YOON (ETHAN) CHUNG
"The Forgiven"

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

MAX ASHTON
For his original and insightful contributions in the English classroom and the English Department.

THE HAROLD T. AND MARY E. JOHNSTON FELLOWSHIP FOR TRAVEL AND RESEARCH

ANDREW MEZHER
For his proposed research intended to produce scholarship that integrates natural science and the humanities. His faculty advisor is Dr. Harry Rusche.

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

JONG M. (JAKE) KIM
For his dedication to his work, which shines through all he does. As one of his professors notes: “His sheer pleasure to be reading and discussing literature was expressed in every class, an intellectual pleasure that he presented to his peers as the opportunity of a lifetime, after having served in the army for two years.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRTIING

ANTHONY WALNER
EMILY FRANKLIN
For two writers who in different ways capture all the hilarious sorrows and real heartbreak of adolescent life in stories that are moving, funny, and smart.

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

JAMES ZAINALDIN
"Not Quite Eye-to-Eye: Philosophical and Theological Implications of Alfred's Account of the Boethian Universe"

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

AMY ELKINS
"Art and the Archive: Navigating Trauma in H.D.’s Within the Walls' "

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

RACHEL CAWKWELL
"Persephone"
HONORABLE MENTION:
L. BELLEE JONES
"Instructions for Women Who Don't Want Children"

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

JULIE LEVINE
"Warhol’s Green Car Crash Sells For a Record $71.7 Mil at Christie’s Auction"
HONORABLE MENTION:
HANNAH ROSE BLAKELEY
"After Judith and Holofernes"

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

ANTHONY WALNER
"Kimosep"
HONORABLE MENTION:
OMENKA OCHENDU
"The Peacock's Undoing"

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

EMILY KLEYPAS
"Strings"
HONORABLE MENTION:
MARTIN KRAFFT
"An Accident"

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

JAMIE SCHLANSKY
"For What It's Worth"
HONORABLE MENTION:
MICHELLE IZMAYLOVE
"(Not a) Love Story"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

GRACE (YOUNG EUN) KIM
"In the Woods"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JONATHAN DURIE
"Blood Red"

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

RAYMOND COLISON
For his original and insightful contributions in the English classroom and the English Department.

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

STEFFI DELCOURT
An avid student of both English and Psychology, Steffi Delcourt has pursued her English studies with a keen eye towards how novels reveal the secrets of character development. In her senior year, she will embark upon an honors thesis under the direction of Professor John Bugge.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRTIING

EMILY GUTIERREZ
For her considerable promise as a fiction writer whose rich, textured stories explore the complications of human experience.

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

JAMES REILLY
"The Dilemma of Displacement: Pilgrimage and the Poems of Hardy, Auden and Heaney"

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

MARGARET GREAVES
" 'The Old Folks at Home': Communal Homesickness in Irish Blackface Performance "

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

RICHIE HOFMANN
"Natural Selection"
HONORABLE MENTION:
L. BELLEE JONES
"The Hours of the Missing Sun"

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

AMANDA DALES
"The Person Who Draws in Pictionary Is the Picturist"
HONORABLE MENTION:
SALLY JO
"My Grandmother, Measuring Her Diabetes"
CAROLINE CREW
"Example A"

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

COURTNEY CROUCH
"Ghost)Story"
HONORABLE MENTION:
MALCOLM TARIQ
"The Whole Two Dollars"

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

GARRETT TURNER
"Lost For Words"
HONORABLE MENTION:
WILLIAM PRATER
"The Hierophant"

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

YORDANOS AGAJYELLEH
"The Dress"
HONORABLE MENTION:
GEORGIANA GREEN
"Passacaglia"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

MATT RYCKMAN
"The Visitor"
HONORABLE MENTION:
SEAN STEFFEN
"Gunface"

THE JOHNSTON FELLOWSHIP FOR TRAVEL AND RESEARCH

KRISTIN MORGAN
For travel and preliminary research on Old English poetry and interlace, including attendance at a conference on the dating of Beowulf at Harvard University.

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

JENNIFER NELSON
For insightful contributions to all English classes beginning in her freshman year and continuing through her senior honors thesis.

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

ANNE CULPEPPER
Anne Culpepper came to Emory with no intention of being an English major; her love of fiction changed all that, however, and she has spent a productive career concentrating on English novels, under the advisorship of Walt Reed and Laura Otis.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRTIING

APRIL WALKER
For elegant and ambitious poems that grapple with history--her varied and rich subject matter underscored by a fine measure of clarity, tension, and play.

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

DAVID SMITH
"Seek Goodly Company: The Parable of the Ancient Mariner"

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

ANTHONY COOKE
"Black Paranoia, Black Politics"

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

ROKSHANI CHOKSHI
"Elly-fuh-hant"
HONORABLE MENTION:
CAITLIN ETHERTON
"Ironing"

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

BRITTANY HAYES
"Wine and Milk"
HONORABLE MENTION:
SUSAN LEVINSON
"Justice"

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

ISABELLA SUN
"Numbers She Didn't Count"
HONORABLE MENTION:
NICOLE AZORES-GOCOCO
"Noise"

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

WHITNEY WRIGHT
"Peacock Feathers"
HONORABLE MENTION:
CAMILLE BULLOCK
"Genesis"

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

CAITLIN ETHERTON
"Crux"
HONORABLE MENTION:
LAURA KOCHMAN
"Salad Days"

AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE

CHRISTINA BIANCO
"Finding My Way"
HONORABLE MENTION:
DAVID SPORN
"Dragons"

THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

JULIA COX
For distinguishing herself through readings of both unheralded and lionized figures in African-American literature.

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

NICHOLAS SURBEY
Playwright, dancer, and the senior English major who has demonstrated the highest degree of intellectual vitality and quiet fearlessness.

THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP

RACHEL HARRIS
A student of George Eliot's Middlemarch, and the rising senior of outstanding achievement and high promise in the study of literature.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRTIING

HILARY CADIGAN
For a young poet whose work is mature beyond her years, lyrically delicate and rich in subject.

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

JES GEARING
"The Thing and the Word: Seamus Heaney’s Lieux de Mémoire"

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

ALYSSA STALSBERG
"The Politics of Feminist Nostalgia in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebooks"

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

KAYLEIGH DEMELLO
"The Electromagnetic Spectrum"
HONORABLE MENTION:
MEGAN BOATRIGHT
"Dreams of Taxidermy"

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

GEOFF SCHORKOPF
"Trust Me, Jackie"
HONORABLE MENTION:
LAURA KOCHMAN
"Lucy"

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

Nick Miller
"Merry Christmas, Jody Bramble"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JORDAN GREENWALD
"The Wind That Pushed the Door Ajar"

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

GEOFFREY SCHORKOPF
"Hold Out, Ingram"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JOCELYN PETTWAY
"Impossible"

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

NATHAN AMSTUTZ
"Seven Years"
HONORABLE MENTION:
MONICA WANG
"Pieces"

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

NICHOLAS SURBEY
"The Businessman of Bridgewater, PA"
HONORABLE MENTION:
KATHERINE JOHNSEN
"Things That Go BANG in the Office"

THE JOHNSTON FELLOWSHIP FOR TRAVEL AND RESEARCH

ALEXANDRA PREBUL
To support study and research in Dublin, Ireland toward an honors thesis on James Joyce’s use of corporeality and mobility in Ulysses.

THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH

CLIFFORD CLARK
For demonstrating, in the opinion of his fellow students, the highest degree of intellectual vitality inside and outside the classroom.

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRTIING

NATHAN AMSTUTZ
For a young writer with considerable promise, capable of mature and nuanced prose, beautifully rendered.

EMORY GOES NOVEL CONTEST

LAURA OTIS
Lacking in Substance

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

MEGAN BOATRIGHT
"Reinterpreting the Other in Robinson Crusoe"

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"

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"

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"

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

SARAH WALLCE
"Pérdida"
HONORABLE MENTION:
ARIELLE MEDFORD
"Coloring the Corners and the Floor"
KELLY ALICE BAHLKE
"Laughing in the Hospital"

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

DANIELLE BERMAN
"Personality Inked"
HONORABLE MENTION:
VANA DABNEY
"One Man, Under Gods"

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"

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

SHELBY FARRELL
"What You Want"
HONORABLE MENTION:
RANJIT RAJU
"El Samurai"

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.

THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

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

THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRTIING

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