We are thrilled to announce the winners of the English Depatment's Critical & Creative Writing Prizes. Congratulations to all of the winners and thank you to everyone who participated!
Critical Essay Prizes:
Boston Ruskin Prize
Samuel Diener Riddling Subjects: The Inventory Poem in the Work of Jonathan Swift
Thomas Casalaspi Waldo and Julian: An Experiment in Transhistorical Criticism
Helen Choate Bell Prize (Essay)
Tess McNulty George Saunders and the Uplifting Anecdote
Winthrop Sargent Prize
Thomas Casalaspi Refusing Critical Exorcism: The Case of Grigori Kozintsev’s Hamlet
Thomas Dolinger “They that have the power to hurt”: Shakespeare’s Poetics of Pain
William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize
Bailey Sincox Charles Eliot Norton, Collector: The Spirit of Dickens’ Public Readings
Creative Writing Prizes:
Academy of American Poets Prize
Letitia Chan, “Survival as Aesthetic Matter”
Joan Gray Untermyer Poetry Prize
Ashley Gong, “Non-Counterfactual of the Self”
Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize
Sarah Toomey
Roger Conant Hatch Prizes for Lyric Poetry
Thomas Mahon
Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prizes
Poetry:
- Patricia Liu
- Roey Leonardi
- Alisha Yi
- Joseph Felkers
- Alex Cohen
- Letitia Chan
Prose:
- Elliot Thornton
- Meena Venkataramanan
- Caroline Tsai
Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize
1st place: Jensen Davis, “With Jeremy Kofman”
2nd Place: Youmna Chamieh, “Silence of the Rats”
Charles Edmund Horman Prize
Sophia Mautz (Poetry)
Jude Okonkwo (Prose)
Harvard Monthly Prize
Margaret Kirn
Anisa Ahmed
Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Award
Sabrina Li, “Grief Song”
The Thomas Wood Award in Journalism
Anna Correll
The Lee Patrick Award in Drama
Skylar-Bree Takyi