Past Award and Scholarship Recipients
English Department Contests and Scholarships
Undergraduate winners: http://english.emory.edu/home/undergraduate/awards/index.html
Graduate winners: http://english.emory.edu/home/graduate/awards-scholarships.html
Academy of American Poets Prize (undergraduate and graduate)
Judge: Wendy Xu, poet, editor, and professor
Chloe Wegrzynowicz: “For the Horses”
Chloe Wegrzynowicz is a white, sort-of-Christian, disabled, straight, female-identifying person from Catawissa, Pennsylvania. She writes poems and studies creative writing and English on the pre-medical track at Emory University. She lives w/ her partner Jose, and cat, Oliver-George, in Atlanta. Her biggest passion is for poems and for disability advocacy.
HONORABLE MENTION
Christopher Gadomski: “Borrego”
Christopher Gadomski is a fourth-year pre-medical student majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Atlanta, Georgia most recently. While he mostly writes songs, his poetry courses at Emory have emboldened him to use poetry to explore memory and place.
Artistine Mann Award in Poetry
Judge: Wendy Xu, poet, editor, and professor
Nicole (Tzu Tung) Lee: “Defined lines & electrified borders”
Nicole Lee is a senior Business and Creative Writing double major from Taipei, Taiwan. An avid reader and writer of poetry and fiction, she aspires to continue her passion as she begins her career in fintech after graduation.
HONORABLE MENTION
Henry Koskoff: “Dusk”
Henry Koskoff is soon to graduate with degrees in Creative Writing & Dance. Among other artistic endeavors, he spent these last semesters pursuing a poetry thesis which explored childhood, maturation and disillusionment. He plans to spend the next year in Atlanta, springing from multidisciplinary interest to exercise the extent of his creativity.
Artistine Mann Award in Fiction
Judge: Crystal Wilkinson, fiction writer, memoirist, poet, and professor
Cody J. Nelson: “The Elephant in the Casket”
Cody J. Nelson is a third-year junior majoring in Anthropology and Human Biology. Post-graduation, he hopes to continue his education and study Psychology and Counseling, with the aspiration to go into counseling. In his free time, he enjoys reading and writing.
HONORABLE MENTION
Madeleine Kleinerman: “Radiance”
Madeleine Kleinerman is a third-year studying Creative Writing and Religion. She grew up in Michigan and plans to continue writing after graduation.
Artistine Mann Award in Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Sandra Gail Lambert, memoirist and fiction writer
Isabel Cuellar: “Thoughts on food and love”
Isabel Cuellar is a sophomore pursuing a Creative Writing major and a BBA in Business & Society. She is Colombian-American but grew up in Dubai. She regularly explores her identity and heritage by writing about everyday life. She enjoys gardening, baking, and taking pictures of cats.
HONORABLE MENTION
Chaya Tong: “The Klan in Uniform”
Chaya Tong is a sophomore majoring in biology and English and Creative Writing originally from the Bay Area, California. She is a writer and editor for The Emory Wheel and is interested in pursuing a journalism career.
Artistine Mann Award in Playwriting
Judge: Hannah Kenah is a playwright, performer, and theatre artist. Hannah has been developing original theatrical performance for two decades. For the Rude Mechs, Hannah wrote Field Guide, which premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre; she wrote Now Now Oh Now, which toured nationally; and she performed in national and international tours of The Method Gun. For Salvage Vanguard, she wrote and performed in Guest By Courtesy, which was selected for Fusebox Festival and toured to Brooklyn and Bulgaria. Hannah has performed at Lincoln Center, Humana Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Walker Arts Center, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre, among others. She has developed and presented work with Sibyl Kempson & New Dramatists, Yale University, PlayMakers at UNC Chapel-Hill, University of British Columbia, Physical Plant, Underbelly, Paper Chairs, Echo Playwrights Lab, and Tofte Lake Center, among others. Her plays have been finalists and semifinalists for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Relentless Award, Playwrights Realm, PlayPenn, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and honorably mentioned on the Kilroy List. Hannah received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, a BA from Dartmouth College, and a certificate of physical theatre from Dell’Arte International.
Dylan Malloy: The Groundwater
Dylan is a sophomore from Colorado studying playwriting and business. She is a winner of The Blank Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival; her plays have been staged in Colorado, Georgia, and Los Angeles, California. She won the Artistine Mann Award for best fiction writing by an undergraduate during her freshman year.
HONORABLE MENTION
Yide (John) Cai: Men Write Men Write Men Right
From Shenzhen China, Yide (John) Cai is a senior studying Playwriting & German Studies. Since going to high school in Philadelphia, he has spent eight years in America. Other than plays, he also writes poems and fiction. In his free time, he likes going to theater shows and playing tennis.
Agnes Nixon and Kiki McCabe Prize in Screenwriting
Judge: Adisa Iwa has written for multiple classic TV shows including Law & Order: SVU; NYPD Blue; Dark Angel, etc. In addition, he is currently writing, developing, and/or producing Surian Seed: HBCU Superheroes; a feature film about the last six months of Tupac Shakur's life; a major motion picture set inside the world of today's rap music industry, and various other new television, film, and online projects in Los Angeles and Atlanta. Mr. Iwa is a founding member of the Cinema/Television/and Emerging Media Studies Department (CTEMS) at his alma mater Morehouse College, and a former professor there. He currently teaches Screenwriting at the number one ranked HBCU in the nation, Spelman College.
Sarah Marzouk: Moving Mountains
Sarah Marzouk is an English & Film and Media double major and a senior at Emory University graduating with Highest Honors. A proud daughter of Egyptian immigrants, she was raised in West Virginia and grew up with a love for writing, film, and animation. She especially enjoys the magical-realism genre.
HONORABLE MENTION
Tabitha Healey: Out of Mind
I am a third-year student from Rochester, NY, studying Creative Writing as well as Film and Media. I’m currently published in the Agnes Scott Writer’s Festival. Hoping to merge together my passions of writing and film/tv, I aspire to become a screenwriter as well as a novelist.
HONORABLE MENTION
Peter Loiselle: Atompunk
Peter Loiselle is a second-year student pursuing a double major in Film and Computer Science and hopes to one day be a filmmaker. He is thankful for the support he has gotten from his friends and family.
The Tom-Chris Allen Scholarship
Ellie Purinton: “The Justice of the Peace and Magistrate Courts in Georgia: Reform without Repair”
Through assiduous reporting that took her deep into Georgia’s history, Ellie Purinton has examined, picked apart and explained with clarity a superfluous and often-corrupt pocket of Georgia jurisprudence that endured for 231 years: The Justice of the Peace system. From 1752 until 1983, the front-line of the state of Georgia’s legal system was represented by elected, uneducated, justices of the peace, a rare few of them trained in law, who often bent to the will of dishonest sheriffs and police chiefs across the state. She tells of one such instance in southwest Georgia that led to the fatal police beating of a black man in 1958. Ms. Purinton’s work was cited in the podcast, Buried Truths.
Ellie Purinton is a Junior from Concord, MA, double majoring in Creative Writing and Human Health. She hopes to utilize her writing to bring light to inequalities, particularly those present in the health care system.
Chaya Tong: “Dead Bones in the Blinding White Light”
What the world needs now is deeper and clearer explanatory reporting that brings clarity to readers on the front row of history as it is unfolding. That goal seems to be paramount in the work of Chaya Tong. Through samples of her writing on topics not remotely related to each other, Ms. Tong plunged into complexities many writers might not dare take on. She produced accessible and absorbable stories about a little-known Ancient DNA Lab at Emory that examines bones, muscles, fossils that are thousands of years old; a routine free speech survey of college campuses that Ms. Tong leveraged to delve into Emory’s own mixed history of respecting and rejecting free speech displays over the decades; and eye-opening research at Emory into antibiotic resistance. All were told with careful clarity.
Chaya Tong is a sophomore majoring in biology and English and Creative Writing originally from the Bay Area, California. She is a writer and editor for The Emory Wheel and is interested in pursuing a journalism career.
The Grace Abernethy Scholarship in Creative Writing (Nonfiction)
Isabel Cuellar
In personal essays submitted for the Grace Abernethy Scholarship for nonfiction, Isabel Cuellar establishes herself as a lucid thinker whose global experiences lead her to multi-lingual perspectives that are both alert and complex. Through the spiritual ritual of preparing and sharing food, the author comes to know love; through concessions and confessions about her use of indigenous languages and pursuit of tongues foreign to her, she interprets herself and her world in an impressive illuminating voice.
Isabel Cuellar is a sophomore pursuing a Creative Writing major and a BBA in Business & Society. She is Colombian-American but grew up in Dubai. She regularly explores her identity and heritage by writing about everyday life. She enjoys gardening, baking, and taking pictures of cats.
The Grace Abernethy Scholarship in Creative Writing (Non-genre Specific)
Palmer Strubhar
Both timely and insightful, “Influenced” captures modern life with its hybrid realities of the actual and digital. Employing up-to-the-moment vernacular without sacrificing good old-fashioned storytelling, it is a story of loyalty to family, to community, and ultimately to oneself.
Palmer Strubhar is a sophomore at Oxford College from Piedmont, Oklahoma majoring in Creative Writing with a Rhetoric minor. She spends her time assisting students as an Oxford ePortfolio Consultant, designing graphics for Plant-Based Oxford, and editing undergraduate articles for Emory Grey Matters.
The 2023 Sudler Prize in the Arts Winners
Henry Koskoff (Creative Writing and Dance double major)Paula Acocal (Creative Writing and Film and Media Studies double major)
The Sudler Prize in the Arts is awarded each year to one or more graduating 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.
Henry Koskoff is soon to graduate with degrees in Creative Writing & Dance. Among other artistic endeavors, he spent these last semesters pursuing a poetry thesis which explored childhood, maturation and disillusionment. He plans to spend the next year in Atlanta, springing from multidisciplinary interest to exercise the extent of his creativity.
Paula Acocal: TBA
Academy of American Poets Prize (undergraduate and graduate)
Judge: Tiana Clark, poet and educator
Cynthia Salinas Cappellano: “Colibri”
Cynthia Salinas Cappellano is a rising junior in the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. Previously, they won the 2021 Artistine Mann Award for best poem by an Emory undergraduate student. Their current work is forthcoming in Volume 25 of The Underground literary magazine at the College of Mount Saint Vincent for "During" and "blizzard."
HONORABLE MENTION
Jackson Newbern: “Shaving”
Jackson Newbern is a senior studying English and Creative Writing at Emory and is originally from Carrollton, Georgia. They will be pursuing their MFA in poetry writing in the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin starting this fall.
Artistine Mann Award in Poetry
Judge: Tiana Clark, poet and educator
Macy Perrine: “manmade”
Macy Perrine is a sophomore majoring in Creative Writing. She is from Marshfield, Wisconsin, where she grew up with seven siblings. Her poetry often explores female sexuality and the female body, and she hopes to pursue a career as a poet and professor of creative writing.
HONORABLE MENTION
Amalia Tenuta: “Wanted”
Amalia Tenuta is a poet currently based in Atlanta. Her work has appeared in Crab Fat Magazine, The Columbia Review, Prolit, SPORAZINE, Protean, and elsewhere.
Artistine Mann Award in Fiction
Judge: A.E. Osworth, novelist
Dylan Malloy: “The Liftoff”
Dylan is a freshman double majoring in playwriting and business at Oxford. She directed and produced her sixth play, Felicity, through the Oxford Drama Guild and contributed a bake-off to the Lenaia Festival. Two of Dylan’s plays are currently semifinalists in The Blank Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival in L.A.
HONORABLE MENTION
Emma Dollar: “Meat Factory, Colorized”
Emma Dollar is a junior double majoring in Creative Writing and International Studies from New York. On campus, she is involved with Alloy Magazine, Outdoor Emory, and the SOAR pre-orientation program. She often procrastinates writing by hiking, baking, and playing Sudoku.
HONORABLE MENTION
Calen MacDonald: “The Hollow Boy”
Calen is a 6'8" tall writer and soon-to-be graduate student. At Emory he has studied neuroscience and behavioral biology and English and creative writing. He spends his free time rowing, crocheting, and being 6'8". He's also 6'8".
Artistine Mann Award in Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Ben Yagoda, journalist, nonfiction writer, and educator
Henry Koskoff: “Object Permanence”
Henry Koskoff is a rising senior majoring in Creative Writing & Anthropology. He is involved in multiple campus editorial boards and dances with Emory Dance Company. His preferred medium is poetry but he enjoys exploring several creative outlets-- visual, textual, and otherwise. He is currently entrenched in matters of childhood, maturity, and disillusionment processes.
HONORABLE MENTION
Rukmini Kalamangalam: “A Seat to Myself”
Rukmini is a proud South Asian American with roots in Houston, Texas and across the South. In the past, Rukmini has worked advocating for marginalized women of color, from survivors of violence to at-promise girls. She just graduated with her bachelor's degree in creative writing + economics from Emory.
HONORABLE MENTION
Sophia Bereaud: “An Account of Art and Madness”
Sophia Bereaud is a junior majoring in Creative Writing and Anthropology. She studies identity construction at the intersections of immigrant culture and queerness. Raised in Boston's folk-singing communities, she continues making music with the Emory Concert Choir, organizing performances through the Emory Musicians Network, and writing songs and poems of her own. Sophia co-facilitates Emory's semesterly meal swipe drives in partnership with Swipe Out Hunger and is currently campaigning to raise student worker minimum wage with Emory Students for Students.
Artistine Mann Award in Playwriting
Judge: travis l. tate, playwright, poet, and performer
Ozzy Wagner: Everyone Calls Her Grace
Ozzy is a senior studying playwriting, originally from Seattle, Washington. Ozzy has been involved with acappella, TE, and Ad Hoc, and was a producer of the Lenaia Student Playwriting Festival for three years. This year, Ozzy was a semifinalist for fellowships/residencies at the Playwrights’ Center and the Bechdel Project.
HONORABLE MENTION
Dylan Malloy: Felicity
Dylan is a freshman double majoring in playwriting and business at Oxford. She directed and produced her sixth play, Felicity, through the Oxford Drama Guild and contributed a bake-off to the Lenaia Festival. Two of Dylan’s plays are currently semifinalists in The Blank Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival in L.A.
Agnes Nixon and Kiki McCabe Prize in Screenwriting
Judge: Van Jensen, screenwriter, director, comic book writer, and graphic novelist
Wenyi Shao: Soul Mates
I'm from China, and I double major in Biology and Film and Media Studies. I enjoy writing and studying bean beetles.
HONORABLE MENTION
Oana Nicola: Disconnection
Oana Nicola studies Creative Writing and Psychology. She's enamored with all forms of writing, from screenplays to poetry, and hopes to someday write scripts professionally and direct films. Her preoccupations include the death of the American Dream, insufferably beloved female characters, and general mayhem. Her poetry is published in Tint Journal.
The Tom-Chris Allen Scholarship
Wittika Chaplet: “Breaking the Silence: Telling the Stories of the Black Women of Terrell County, Georgia” is a deep excavation of stories behind the patriarchal portrayal of the modern civil rights struggle, where Wittika found astonishing episodes of violence against black women “hidden in plain sight.”
Wittika Chaplet is third year from Brooklyn, New York, double majoring in History and Arabic. Next year she will be writing her History Honor’s Thesis looking at urban gardens in Burkina Faso as a lens through which to understand alternate visions of West African futures.
Tori Jordan: “Stacking the Deck: How Dawson, Georgia’s White Insiders’ Game Hijacked the Coroner’s Jury” showed the corruption of southern white hegemony in small communities in the modern civil rights era. Cozy conflicts of interests, even blood relationships between white jurors and white defendants accused of killing black people, were routinely overlooked, tolerated, and encouraged in courthouses because white supremacists wanted to leave no wiggle room for equal justice to take root.
The Grace Abernethy Scholarship in Creative Writing (Nonfiction)
Sarina McCabe: In her submission, White Coats, Red Hands: Medical Misdiagnosis as a Tool of Control in the Civil Rights South, Sarina McCabe showed the callous disregard white medical professionals historically demonstrated toward black patients in the modern civil rights era. The malpractice was so pervasive that some medical practitioners learned that their professional advancement depended on disregarding black lives more than saving them.
Sarina Adeline is a senior majoring in Creative Writing. Hailing from South Bend, IN, she is a Woodruff Scholar, Gates Scholar, and a member of the Questbridge Community. In addition to reading and honing her writing craft, she serves on the board of a housing nonprofit, as a staff writer for EUMR, and participates in Latin Ballroom. Upon graduating, Sarina will enter a PhD in the humanities at Stanford University.
The Grace Abernethy Scholarship in Creative Writing (Non-genre Specific)
Jackson Newbern: (poetry collection)
Jackson Newbern is a senior studying English and Creative Writing at Emory and is originally from Carrollton, Georgia. They will be pursuing their MFA in poetry writing in the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin starting this fall.
The 2022 Sudler Prize in the Arts Winner: Amalia Tenuta
The Sudler Prize in the Arts is awarded each year to one or more graduating 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.
Amalia Tenuta is a poet currently based in Atlanta. Her work has appeared in Crab Fat Magazine, The Columbia Review, Prolit, SPORAZINE, Protean, and elsewhere.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL COMPETITION FOR BEST ESSAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
- AUDREY RUAN
- Essay: "Here Lies Queen Elizabeth I"
- HONORABLE MENTION:
- SHREYA PABBARAJU
- Essay: " 'The Reeve's Tail' Remixed: Gender Swaps and Women-Props in Agbabi's 'Tit for Tat' "
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"
- ARIEL LAWRENCE
- Essay: "Autobiography from the Graveyard: Kinship, Mourning, and Fugitivity in the Abyss"
THE JAMES RICHARDSON AWARD FOR DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN AFRICAN AMERICAN OR AMERICAN LITERATURE
- LAUREN HIGHSMITH
- Dissertation: "Finding Black Futurity in Wondaland"
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY STUDENT
- MATTHEW BUXTON
- Poem: "Vii"
- HONORABLE MENTION:
- ANNA LINDQUIST
- Poem: "I See You"
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"
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
- HONORABLE MENTION:
- DREW MINDELL
- Play: "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare (or at least our best approximation)
- JASMINE CUI
- Nonfiction story: "Variations on My Chinese"
- HONORABLE MENTION:
- SHEENA HOLT
- Nonfiction story: "The Cat Is Dead"
- GARRETT BYRNE
- Screenplay: Implicated
- HONORABLE MENTION:
- SHREYA TIBREWALA
- Screenplay: Chotu
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- AUDREY RUAN
- For sustained excellence in coursework in the English major and a dedication to exploring the intersections of literature and science.
- ALEXIS T. CAMPBELL
- Multimodal composition: "Camouflage"
- MURIEL STATMAN
- Essay: "Disparate Dignities: Images of the Dead"
- HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- BEN ARCHER
- Autoethnography: "Real Men Wear Pink"
- ANJI NI:
- Autoethnography: "
Personality Changes of Bilinguals in a Second Language " - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN CREATIVE NONFICTION FOR BEST NONFICTION WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH
THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP
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
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.
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 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 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)
THE GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING (NON-GENRE SPECIFIC)
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
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."
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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