2019 English Literary Awards
Each year, students from all majors submit their best work for our annual Student Literary Awards. They are judged first by a panel of creative writing faculty members, and then the top choices in each genre category are ranked by esteemed outside judges. In April, during the final weeks of classes, winners are invited to read from their work before their peers and the gathered faculty. First, second, and third prize winners are awarded a cash prize. First place winners also go on to attend the Alumni Prize Ceremony in May.
Here are this year's winners:
Concord Traveling Scholarship
Recipient: Aida Campos
The Goronwy Owen Prize in Poetry (Group of Poems)
First: Margaret Mitchell, Confessions
Second: Ryan Onders, Don’t Kiss the Alpaca Lips
Third: Rebecca Bermudez, psalms
Honorable Mentions
Jennifer Andreacchi, Group of Poems
Samantha Boateng, Black Girl
Aida Campos, Legacy
Frida Salmoran, My Margins
Nicholas Schilling, The Lived and the Imagined
The Glenwood Clark Prize in Fiction
First: Devon Bortz, “SICK”
Second: Brooke Stephenson, “Mine”
Third: Quinn Arnone, “Andromeda”
Honorable Mentions
Emily Childress, “The Runner”
Abby Comey, “Rocky Road”
Kate Dragonetti, “TV Preacher”
Clara Finley, “When the Lights Went On”
Katherine Hansen, “It Would Be My Pleasure”
Christina McBride, “The Surgery”
Margaret Mitchell, “Baby Shoes”
Adithi Ramakrishnan, “Full Bloom”
Gwen Sachs, “Strangers“
The Academy of American Poets Prize (Single Poem)
First: Frida Salmoran, “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent, 1987”
Second: Zheng Yu, “Waltz in the Snow”
Third: Ryan Onders, “Billy’s Burg”
Honorable Mentions
Abby Comey, “Phoenix”
Jana Considine, “Material Culture”
Kate Dragonetti, “Pool Party”
Nicole Efford, “Awareness”
Kaelyn Eleuterio, “Sins of Omission”
Clara Finley, “Shooting Stars”
Kathy Jiang, “Round”
Madeline Salino, “Grocery”
Nicholas Schilling, “As a Woman in Her Blood”
Marriya Schwarz, “32 Things My Mother Taught Me and the 1 Question She Left Me With”
The Tiberius Gracchus Jones Prize for Nonfiction
First: Christina McBride, “Hadley and Me”
Second: Kathryn Musk, “Umma”
Third: Anastasia Phalen, “By Accident”
Honorable Mentions
Dana Armstrong. “I'm Chiquita Banana: Delora Bueno”
Katherine Hansen, “Home”
Elizabeth Radcliffe, “Elk Lake”
Anna Steinmetz, “Michael”
The Howard Scammon Prize for Drama
First: Naomi Gruber, 7 O’Clock Mass
Second: Marriya Schwarz, Optics
Third: Abby Comey, Eliza
Honorable Mentions
Hallie Feinman, Float Along the River’s Bend
Cady Hammer, Second Chances
Alexis Mays, Disappear, “Pilot”
Eleanor Vaughn, Watched Pots Never Boil
Outside judges: Alison Titus, Katy George, Gregory Koehler, Gina Welch, and Xavier Atkins
