2024 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Austyn Smith, "Chaɳ Kaǧha Otina"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Brenna Sweeny, "Hill House's Frontier"
Rosemary VanArsdel Nonfiction Award
Luke Lofton, "How the Book Worm Becomes a Gym Rat"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Milo Hensley, "Transgender Vampires from Hell"
2024 Department Awardees
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Maia Nilsson
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Memorial Scholarship
Brenna Sweeny
Peter Greenfield Award for Department Leadership
Andrew Ellison
Philip Hager Award for Outstanding Senior in Literature
Tate DeCarlo, Milo Hensley
Departmental Honors
Tate DeCarlo, Maia Nilsson, Andrew Ellison
2023 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Sabine Harris-Boundy, "breakfast as a way to keep track"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Maia Nilsson, ""The Radiance of an Opium-Dream’: The Dissolution of White Selfhood in Poe’s America"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Sigrun Eide-Payne, "Inge"
2023 Department Awardees
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Sophia Schoen
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Memorial Scholarship
Rachel Visick
Peter Greenfield Award for Department Leadership
Cormac Smith
Philip Hager Award for Outstanding Senior in Literature
Sigrun Eide-Payne
Departmental Honors
Sigrun Eide-Payne
Rachel Visick
2022 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Sara Orozco, "March Migration"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Austyn Smith, "Language as Liberation"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Brenna Sweeny, "The Gardener"
2022 Department Awards
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Alex Miller
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Soncirey Mitchell
Peter Greenfield Award
Nola Thury
Philip Hager Award
Ben Williams
Mikaela Fouts
Departmental Honors
Soncirey Mitchell, Alex Miller
2021 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Yuki Morgan, "You're a Virgo"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Alex Miller, "Pronouns and Paradox in Paradise Lost"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Izzy Horn, "Sidereal"
2021 Departmental Awards
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Olivia Couture
Philip Hager Award for Outstanding Senior in Literature
Janella Ariota
Peter Greefield Award for Leadership in the English Major
Zeno C. Deleon Guerrero
Departmental Honors
Janelle Ariota, Izzy Horn, and Marleen Pan
2020 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Siena Brown for "first mixed girl in space"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Olivia Langen, "Unheimlich Jest"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Max Topagna "Loving"
2020 Departmental Awards
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Kate Threat
Departmental Honors
Carlisle Huntington, Alexandra Jacobson, and Kelly Stroh
Peter Greefield Award for Leadership in the English Major
Carlisle Huntington
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Siena Brown and Becca Miserlian
2019 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Kate Threat, "Response to Mary Oliver's 'Sunflowers'"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Olivia Langen, "Unheimlich Jest"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Max Topagna "Loving"
2019 Departmental Awards
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Sofia Gotch
Departmental Honors
Indigo Dacosta, Angela Cookston, Roberto Diaz
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Parker Barry
Peter Greefield Award for Leadership in the English Major
Roberto Diaz
2018 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Colin MacRae, "Lost in the City"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Daniel Lloyd, " O Jamesy Let Me Up Out of This: Narrative and Feminism in 'Penelope'"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Siena Brown "Snap"
2017 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Matthew McKay, "Huckleberry"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Cody Chun, "The Post-Postmodern Concept: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Metaphysics"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Alice Hudson, "Orphea"
Daniel Lloyd, "The Maws of Kites"
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Madeleine Criglow
2017 Departmental Awards
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
Cody Chun
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Claire Martin
Peter Greenfield Award
Will Lopez
2016 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Mary Ontiveros, "Avocado"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Jordan Voltz, “'You Cannot Photograph Something--Only Its Results': The Crises of Witnessing, Meaning, and Authorship in Holocaust Studies"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Leah O'Sullivan, "The Dying"
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Rachel Kalman
2016 Departmental Awards
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
Molly Stambaugh
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Alissa Nance
Rosemary VanArsdel Outstanding Senior WRC Award
Melanie Schaffer
Peter Greenfield Award
Clarisse Nakahama
2015 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Elaina Friedman, "Lady of the House"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Tyler Sherman, "Sins of the Genre: Science Fiction's Inheritance of the American Gothic"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Alex Durante, "Manchas"
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Elizabeth Harbaugh
2015 Departmental Awards
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
William Rathje
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Anna Elliott
Rosemary VanArsdel Outstanding Senior WRC Award
Taylor Applegate
Peter Greenfield Award
Krista Silva
2014 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
Alex Durante, "Little Brother"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Billy Rathje, "Parroting the King: Royal Mockery and Parody in Ben Johnson's Drama and Verse"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Al Foote, "Teachers"
2014 Departmental Awards
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
David Mucklow
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
Tosia Klincewicz
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Ian Fox
Rosemary VanArsdel Outstanding Senior WRC Award
Zoe Drew-King
Peter Greenfield Award
Ryan Coleman
2013 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
First Place: Ida Poberezovsky, "Musings Upon Deciding for some Godforsaken Reason to Live in Manhattan for the Summer"
Second Place: Ariana Scott-Zechlin, "February at Ocean Shores"
Third Place: Nolan Ellis, "Bedtime Story of an Absent Father"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Shannon Kilgore, “The Archive and the Apocalypse: the Problem of Memory in Ulysses”
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Meghan Peterson, Made of Steel
2013 Departmental Awards
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Crystal Ignatowski
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
Kelli Conley
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Grace Heerman
Rosemary VanArsdel Outstanding Senior WRC Award
Jack Todd
Peter Greenfield Award
Chloe Hunt
2012 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
First Place: Kate Fujimoto, "Mt. St. Helens"
Second Place: Erin Larkin, "Constancy"
Third Place: Brendan Witt, "When the Columbines Rise"
Sandler Critical Essay Award
Megan Fries, "Clearing, Cultivating, and American Manhood: Lockean Visions of Property in Early America"
Walter Mitchell, “Auteur Theory in Gaming: Jonathan Blow’s Braid”
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Kate Fujimoto, "Karen Carpenter and I Hang Out at the Old Elementary School"
2012 Departmental Awards
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Hannah Biskind
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
Megan Fries
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Olivia Weitz
Rosemary VanArsdel Outstanding Senior WRC Award
Jill Sanford
Peter Greenfield Award
Elizabeth Kiscsh
Rachel Kollar
2011 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
First Place: Emily Krieger, "Afghanistan"
Second Place: James Gaines, "Long Division"
Heuston Literature Prize
Ian Greenfield, "The Mirror in the Ghost"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Ian Greenfield, "Lucy in the Woods"
2011 Departmental Honors
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Kyle Nunes
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
Lindsey Flatt
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Rose Thompson
Rosemary VanArsdel Outstanding Senior WRC Award
Emma Ayers
Fezziwig Award in Honor of David Macey
Maggie Faber
2010 Writing Contest Winners
Nixeon Civille Handy Poetry Award
First Place: Ian Greenfield, "A Bible of Crumbling Ammonites"
Second Place: Jeanne Stevens, "Untitled"
Third Place: Melissa Farage, "Low Tide at Cathedral Cove"
Heuston Literature Prize
Brad Rice, "Charisma 'doth suffer a sea-change:' Prospero, Max Weber, and Routinization in Shakespeare’s The Tempest"
Honorable Mentions:
Greta Lindquist, "A Pirate in Shackles: Language in Emmanuel Appadocca"
Katie Shuy, "The Ascription of Meaning: Nigerian Road Building and The Famished Road"
Esther Wagner Fiction Prize
Benjamin Merkel, "The War on Torpor"
2010 Departmental Awards
Barry Bauska Senior Creative Writing Major Award
Hudson Hongo
Philip Hager Outstanding Senior Literature Major Award
Brad Rice
Kathryn Irene Rodgers Scholarship
Robyn Broker
Lauren Foster
Rosemary VanArsdel Outstanding Senior WRC Award
Miles King
Fezziwig Award in Honor of David Macey
Greta Lindquist
