 

#  2020 Harvard English Department Critical Essay &amp; Creative Writing Prize Winners 

 
May 22, 2020

 
 We are thrilled to announce the winners of the English Depatment's Critical &amp; 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:**

1. Patricia Liu
2. Roey Leonardi
3. Alisha Yi
4. Joseph Felkers
5. Alex Cohen
6. Letitia Chan

 **Prose:**

1. Elliot Thornton
2. Meena Venkataramanan
3. 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


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