English Department Scholarship and Writing Prize Winners 2016
Writing Prizes
Chesler Prize: Sophie Heywood
James T. Lewis Prizes: Hannah Widmaier and Samantha Rauch
Standish Henning Shakespeare Prize: Colten Parr
William F. Vilas Prizes: Curtis Ascher and Meg Sill
Data Analysis Award: Meghan Villalpando
Digital Media Award: Marisa Skelley
English 100 Student Writing Awards: Brock Gilsdorf and Jared Godfrey
International Writing Student Awards: Thana Pongcharoenyong, Jingyu Zhuang, Yiqun Ma, and Rahul Venkatesh
Creative Writing Prizes
University Book Store Awards for Independent Projects: Justin Balog, Cody Dunn, August Glomski, Lindsay Nigh, Kayleigh Norgord, Leo Vartorella
Cy Howard Memorial Scholarship Thesis Prize: Justin Balog (poetry)
Eudora Welty Fiction Thesis Prize: Kayleigh Norgord
Ron Wallace Poetry Thesis Prize: Miles Solstice
Henry Douglas Mackaman Undergraduate Writers Award: Renee Jerome (fiction)
Therese Muller Undergraduate Fiction Prizes:
FIRST PLACE: Johanna Lepro-Green
SECOND PLACE: Elena Norcross
HONORABLE MENTIONS: August Glomski, Katie Kamperschroer, Reid Kurkerewicz, Andrew Newman, Kayleigh Norgord, Ben Reese
George B. Hill Undergraduate Poetry Prizes:
FIRST PLACE: Justin Balog
SECOND PLACE: Cody Dunn
THIRD PLACE: Kiyoko Reidy
HONORABLE MENTIONS; Cody Fearing, Justine Jones, Madeline Kelly, Jack Robbins, Miles Solstice, Caleb Weisnicht
Charles M. Hart Jr. Writers of Promise Awards (for students of ENGL 207):
FIRST PLACE: Joey Bednarski
SECOND PLACE: Esther Peter
THIRD PLACE: Dan Winogradoff
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Delora Prange and Ellie Colbert
Scholarships
Helen C. White Awards: Lindsey Douglass and Chloe Lake
Dorothy Classen Urish Scholarship: Danielle Woodall
May Brabyn Wackman Scholarships: Audrey Hilts, Chloe Lake, Jessica Thomas, Lindsey Douglass, Kristen Romes, Margaret Huskin, Audrey Brown, Colten Parr, and Lauren Boritzke
Vivian Mowry English Scholarships: Cody Dunn, Ethan Kay, Abigail Los, Cole Meyer
English Undergraduate Scholarship: Cody Dunn
Lila Hicks Furber Scholarship: Bradley Oestreich
Helen Black Bennett Memorial Scholarship: Sophie Heywood
Other awards won by English majors in 2016
Hilldale Award: Lindsey Nigh
University Bookstore Academic Excellence Award: Justine Jones
L&S Alice V. Almasy Scholarship: Audrey Hilts
BEST Challenge (Business and English Students Together): Elizabeth Kinsella, with Business School students Alec Preuter and Louise Frye