#  2017-18 Prize Recipients 

 





May 29, 2018

 

 

 We are thrilled to announce this year’s prize recipients!

 Critical Prizes

###  Boston Ruskin Prize

 Emma Adler, English PhD Candidate  
for “‘Unquiet Meals': On Eating Beauty”

###  Helen Choate Bell Prize (Essay)

 Thomas Dolinger, English PhD Candidate  
for “‘Words are here as pulse': Claudia Rankine and the Fate of the Lyric Body”

###  Winthrop Sargent Prize

 Bailey Sincox, English PhD Candidate  
for “*The Winter’s Tale* as Revenge Comedy”

###  William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize

 Richard Yarrow, ’19  
for “Libri Contra Tyrannos: A Rebellious Spirit to Books and their Collectors”

 Cengiz Cemaloglu, ’18  
for “Collecting as a Philosophical Journey, Collecting as a Manifesto”

###  Le Baron Russell Briggs Grant for Continued Critical Literary Studies

 Rob Hopkirk ’18  
Natasha Sarna ’18

###  Le Baron Russell Briggs Honors Thesis Prize in English

 Brieanna Martin ’18

###  Robert Kiely Prize for Outstanding Junior Essay

 Natalie Hodges ’19  
Alison Garber ’19

###  Boylston Prize for Elocution

 1st Place: Chloe Brooks, ’19  
2nd Place: Jacob Roberts, ’19

##  Creative Prizes

###  Poetry Prizes

###  Academic of American Poets Prize

 Martine Thomas, ’18  
for “The Sky Tonight”###  Joan Gray Untermyer Poetry Prize

 Martine Thomas###  Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize

 Miles Hewitt, ’18  
for “\[On first seeing the moon in Laurel Canyon…\]”

###  Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry

 Ashley Gong, ’20  
for “Beneath”

###  Fiction/Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction Prizes

###  Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prize

 **Poetry:**  
1\. Robiny Jamerson, ’18  
2\. Nica Franklin, ’18  
3\. Leon Pan, ’18  
4\. Samuel Goldman Reiss, ’18

 **Fiction:**  
1\. “Acha Baba,” by Aisha Bhoori, ’18  
2\. “Demands for President Wilson,” by Emily Zhao, ’19

###  Creative without Submission

###  Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize

 1st Place: ‘Traffic,’ by Blessing Jee, ’18  
2nd Place: “Slurp and spit and suck,” by Sabrina Li, ’20

###  Charles Edmund Horman Prize

 Mac Lesser, ’19 (Poetry)  
Emily Zhao, ’19 (Prose)

###  Harvard Monthly Prize

 Laurel McCaull, ’18  
Jensen Davis, ’20

###  Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Award

 Juliana Lamy, ’20  
for “Open House”

###  Edward Eager Grant for Continued Studies in Creative Writing

 Cherline Bazile ’18

###  The Thomas Wood Award in Journalism

 Bonnie Bennett, ’18

###  The Lee Patrick Award in Drama

 Madison Johnson, ’18

###  Le Baron Russell Briggs Traveling Prizes

 Emmie Atwood ’18  
Cherline Bazile ’18  
Bonnie Bennett ’18  
Aisha Bhoori ’18  
Miles Hewitt ’18  
Bronte Lim ’18  
Leon Pan ’18  
Martine Thomas ’18



 

 

 



 

 

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