2020-2021
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior and Senior
Jiakai Chang
Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing
Grace Gay
Outstanding Senior in Creative Writing
Nathan Omprasadham
Outstanding Junior in Literature
Lauren Katz
Outstanding Senior in Literature
Honors Thesis Awards
Grace Baik
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Celine Fitzpatrick
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Sam Nguyen
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Caroline Hsu
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Edwin L. Shuman Awards
Nora Geffen
“Post-Verbum”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Keerti Gopal
“Egged”
AWARD: for Fiction
Katie Hwang
“There is No Global Pandemic”
AWARD: for Digital Media
Tanisha Tekriwal
“It Was Falling”
AWARD: for Digital Media
Helen G. Scott Prizes
Caroline Hsu
“Confronting the Age of Mass Surveillance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay
Elizabeth Vaynblat
“Apologizing for Others: Building Sympathy and Culpability in Psycho”
AWARD: for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Zoë Huettl
“Medical History”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Fiction
Sofia Bening
“Forever(6 letters)”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Nonfiction
Kiersa Berg
“Best, Sincerely, With Love”
AWARD: for Digital Media
Grace Gay
“Innocent Blood [excerpts]”
AWARD: in Poetry
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Lennart Nielsen
“Penumbral Floaters”
AWARD: Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets
Mary Kinzie Prizes
Laurisa Sastoque
“Contradicting Home; Anecdotes and Aphorisms”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Grace Gay
“San Mateo Campground”
AWARD: for Fiction
David Lee
“The Escapist - Excerpts”
AWARD: for Poetry
Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper
Allison Macdonald
“The Boy Who Cried Woolf: Humor, Satire, and Feminism in Orland”
William T. Faricy Awards
Christian Thorsberg
“Proem, Strip Mall, Romancing Ghosts”
AWARD: for Poetry