Every year the Program in Creative Writing awards up to $15,000 to undergraduates and graduate students at various stages in their studies. Here are the 2023 award winners!
Charles M. Hart Writers of Promise Awards
Judged by Jackie Chalghin, Nitya Gupta, RE Hawley, Phoebe Kranefuss, Aeron Parks and Robert Bynum
1st place: Hannah DeGuzman
2nd place: Han Raschka
3rd place: Ella Olson
Honorable mentions: Emma Altschul, Tara Awate, and Diya Abbas
Philip H. Wang Memorial Prize in Poetry
Judged by Chessy Normile
1st place: Azura Tyabji
2nd place: Diya Abbas
George B. Hill Poetry Prizes
Judged by Chessy Normile
1st place: Madeline Mitchell
2nd place: Nuha Dolby
Honorable mentions: Maria Freese, Roshnie Rupnarian, and Claire Friedlander
Henry Douglas Mackaman Undergraduate Writer’s Award
Judged by Yalitza Ferreras and Taymour Soomro
1st place: Bess Henshaw
Therese Muller Fiction Prizes
Judged by Yalitza Ferreras and Taymour Soomro
1st place: Madeline Mitchell
2nd place: Jackson Wyatt
Honorable mentions: Natalie Bercutt, Sam Downey, McKayla Murphy, and Shailaja Singh
Therese Muller Non Fiction Prizes
Judged by Yalitza Ferreras and Taymour Soomro
1st place: AJ Johnson
2nd place: Nuha Dolby
3rd place: Rhia Dinghra
Honorable mentions: Natalie Bercutt and McKayla Murphy
Ronald Wallace Poetry Thesis Prize
Judged by Steven Espada Dawson
1st place: Zack Lesmeister
Eudora Welty Fiction Thesis Prize
Judged by Amanda Rizkalla
1st place: Dana Brandt
Cy Howard Memorial Scholarship Thesis Prize
Judged by Steven Espade Dawson and Amanda Rizkalla
1st place: Aiden Aragon
Richard Knowles Teaching Award
1st place: Jackie Chalghin
Jerome Stern Teaching Award
1st place: Megan Kim
Johanna Garfield Award in Non Fiction
Judged by Alyssa Knickerbocker
1st place: Aeron Parks for “Arches”
August Derleth Graduate Creative Writing Prize
Judged by Claire Luchette
1st place: Nitya Gupta “How to Break Up with Your Husband”
William W. Marr Graduate Prize in Creative Writing
Judged by Clemonce Heard
1st place: Renee Lepreau for “On the Day You Were Born” and other poems