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
for “The Sky Tonight”
Joan Gray Untermyer Poetry Prize
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