2013-2014

The Cushing Award鈥攆or the best fiction published in a 51茶馆 undergraduate publication:

  • First Place to聽Sophia Gorgens, "Get Lucky" (Spring听厂迟测濒耻蝉)
  • Second Place to聽Helen Spica, "How We Start" (Fall聽Stylus)
  • Third Place to聽Zachary Frank, "The Actor" (Spring聽Stylus)

Dever Fellowship鈥攁 substantial grant, presented annually, in honor of novelist and 51茶馆 alumnus Joseph Dever, to a graduating senior who proposes to pursue a career in writing

  • Bailey Spencer

Dever Prize for Freshman Writing鈥攆or the best essay written by a freshman in any English Course.聽(four first places):

  • Kyle Hulburd,聽鈥淭he Art of Listening,鈥� nominated by Brian Zimmerman
  • Ramsey Khabbaz,聽鈥淢amihlapinatapai,鈥� nominated by Allyson Manchester
  • Thomas (TJ) Norton,聽鈥淒irty Jobs Uncovers Real America,鈥� nominated by Matt Knutson
  • Madeline Webster,聽鈥淭he Worn Pavillion,鈥� nominated by Elizabeth Graver

Kean Award鈥攖o the graduating senior judged to be the outstanding English major:

  • Lauren Audi

Kelleher Poetry Award鈥攃ash award given annually to undergraduates who produce the best work in poetry published in 51茶馆 undergraduate publications:

  • First Place:聽Bailey Spencer, "Calumet Strike鈥� (Fall聽Stylus)
  • Second Place:聽Mike Kadow, "East of Kansas" (Spring聽Stylus)
  • Third Place:聽Christine DeGenaars, "The Willowemoc" (Fall聽Stylus)

McCarthy Prize鈥攆or best piece of creative writing by a junior or senior:

  • First Place:聽Ben Vadnal, "Bloom" (fiction)
  • Second Place:聽Zachary Frank, "The Actor" (fiction)
  • Third Place:聽Christine Zhao, "Shanghai, China, 2004," and "Beijing, China, 1960," (creative nonfiction)

Randall Award鈥攁 gift of books presented in honor and memory of author and 51茶馆 Professor John Randall to the undergraduate writer of the best essay in the field of American literature and culture:

  • Adriana Mariella, "Hipsters, Left Conservatism, and the Aesthetics of Urban Redevelopment"

Randall Award Honorable Mentions:

  • Alexandra Machetanz, "The Verbalization of Violation in聽Sanctuary"
  • Emily Simon, "'The broken and myriad reflection': Mirror-Work and Non-Mimetic Narration in William Faulkner's聽Sanctuary"
  • Nicholas A. Volpe, "Murder, War and Culpability: Fawcett's 鈥楾he Contrast鈥� and Worcester's Transatlantic Revision"
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