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Emory Creative Writing Contests

AWARDS NIGHT
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2002
READING BY ALICE McDERMOTT
WINNERS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AND
CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL COMPETITION FOR BEST ESSAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
MICHAEL PEYTON DOUGHERTY

"The Dissolution of a Sacred Bond: The Contrasting Images of Marriage in Urban and Rural Settings in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall and Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond"
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL COMPETITION FOR BEST ESSAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY GRADUATE STUDENT
ALLISON HOBGOOD

"Impossible Echoes: Ethics and Resistance in the Work of Alice Walker and Gayatri Spivak"
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ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY STUDENT
NEIL GARVIN
"Metamorphoses"
HONORABLE MENTION:
KRISTI MCKIM
"May"
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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN POETRY FOR BEST POETRY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
TIEN TRAN
"Drought"
HONORABLE MENTION:
NEIL GARVIN
"Span"
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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN FICTION FOR BEST FICTION WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
CAROLYN FINCH
"Past the Breakers"
HONORABLE MENTION:
KATHERINE DUCLOS
"A Season of Faith: Chapter One"
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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN DRAMA FOR BEST PLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
LAUREN GUNDERSON
"Background"
HONORABLE MENTION:
JOSEPH HICKS
"A Day in the Box"
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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN CREATIVE NON-FICTION FOR BEST NON-FICTION WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
ANTON DISCLAFANI
"What We Have Lost"
HONORABLE MENTION:
MARGARITE NATHE
"Telling"
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THE JOHNSTON FELLOWSHIPS FOR TRAVEL AND RESEARCH
ANTON DISCLAFANI
To support her project entitled "The Ethics of Native American Literature: Indigenous Culture and Representation"
AMELIA SITTER
To support research for her honors thesis on a psychoanalytic reading of the novels of William Faulkner
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THE BETTY AND MICHAEL WOLF PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
AMELIA SITTER
For her work in courses, seminars, and independent study devoted to the fiction of William Faulkner
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GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING
NEIL GARVIN
In recognition of his sophisticated, ambitious poems, and exceptional promise
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For copies of the winning pieces, please contact the English Department at (404) 727-6420 or the Creative Writing Program at
(404) 727-4683.

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