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Emory Creative Writing Contests

AWARDS NIGHT
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011
READING BY BETH HENLEY
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
JAMES REILLY
"The Dilemma of Displacement: Pilgrimage and the Poems of Hardy, Auden and Heaney"
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL COMPETITION FOR BEST ESSAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY GRADUATE STUDENT
MARGARET GREAVES
" 'The Old Folks at Home': Communal Homesickness in Irish Blackface Performance"
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ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY STUDENT
RICHIE HOFMANN
"Natural Selection"
HONORABLE MENTION:
L. BELLEE JONES
"The Hours of the Missing Sun"
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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN POETRY FOR BEST POETRY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
AMANDA DALES
"The Person Who Draws in Pictionary Is the Picturist"
HONORABLE MENTION:
SALLY JO
"My Grandmother, Measuring Her Diabetes"
HONORABLE MENTION:
CAROLINE CREW
"Example A"
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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN FICTION FOR BEST FICTION WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
COURTNEY CROUCH
"Ghost)Story"
HONORABLE MENTION:
MALCOLM TARIQ
"The Whole Two Dollars"
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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN DRAMA FOR BEST PLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
GARRETT TURNER
"Lost For Words"
HONORABLE MENTION:
WILLIAM PRATER
"The Hierophant"
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ARTISTINE MANN AWARD IN CREATIVE NON-FICTION FOR BEST NON-FICTION WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
YORDANOS AGAJYELLEH
"The Dress"
HONORABLE MENTION:
GEORGIANA GREEN
"Passacaglia"
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AGNES NIXON AND KIKI MCCABE PRIZE IN SCREENWRITING FOR BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY AN EMORY UNDERGRADUATE
MATT RYCKMAN
"The Visitor"
HONORABLE MENTION:
SEAN STEFFEN
"Gunface"
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THE JOHNSTON FELLOWSHIP FOR TRAVEL AND RESEARCH
KRISTIN MORGAN
For travel and preliminary research on Old English poetry and interlace, including attendance at a conference on the Dating of Beowulf at Harvard University
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THE ANDREA DE MAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH
JENNIFER NELSON
For insightful contributions to all English classes beginning in her freshman year and continuing through her senior honors thesis
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THE HARRY AND SUE RUSCHE SCHOLARSHIP
ANNE CULPEPPER
Anne Culpepper came to Emory with no intention of being an English major; her love of fiction changed all that, however, and she has spent a productive career concentrating on English novels, under the advisorship of Walt Reed and Laura Otis.
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GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING
APRIL WALKER
For elegant and ambitious poems that grapple with history -- her varied and rich subject matter underscored by a fine measure of claritiy, tension, and play.
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