Past Awardees
2012 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
First Place: Kate Fujimoto, Mt. St. Helens
Second Place: Erin Larkin, Constancy
Third Place: Brendan Witt, When the Columbines Rise
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Megan Fries, Clearing, Cultivating, and American Manhood: Lockean Visions of Property in Early America
Walter Mitchell, “Auteur Theory in Gaming: Jonathan Blow’s Braid”
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Kate Fujimoto, Karen Carpenter and I Hang Out at the Old Elementary School
2012 Awardees
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Hannah Biskind
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
Megan Fries
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Olivia Weitz
Rosemary Van Arsdel Outstanding Senior WRC Award
Jill Sanford
Peter Greenfield Award
Elizabeth Kiscsh
Rachel Kollar
2011 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
First Place: Emily Krieger, Afghanistan
Second Place: James Gaines, Long Division
Heuston Literature Prize
Ian Greenfield, The Mirror in the Ghost
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Ian Greenfield, Lucy in the Woods
2011 Awardees
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Kyle Nunes
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
Lindsey Flatt
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Rose Thompson
Rosemary Van Arsdel Outstanding Senior WRC Award
Emma Ayers
Fezziwig Award in Honor of David Macey
Maggie Faber
2010 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
First Place: Ian Greenfield, A Bible of Crumbling Ammonites
Second Place: Jeanne Stevens, Untitled
Third Place: Melissa Farage, Low Tide at Cathedral Cove
Heuston Literature Prize
Brad Rice, "Charisma “doth suffer a sea-change”: Prospero, Max Weber and Routinization in Shakespeare’s The Tempest"
Honorable Mentions:
Greta Lindquist, "A Pirate in Shackles: Language in Emmanuel Appadocca"
Katie Shuy, "The Ascription of Meaning: Nigerian Road Building and The Famished Road"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Benjamin Merkel, The War on Torpor
2010 Awardees
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Hudson Hongo
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
Brad Rice
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Robyn Broker
Lauren Foster
Rosemary Van Arsdel Outstanding Senior WRC Award
Miles King
Fezziwig Award in Honor of David Macey
Greta Lindquist
