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Aerie Each year the English department publishes Aerie, a literary magazine, as well as chapbooks and broadsides supported by the John F. Carroll Fund for Student Publishing. For more information on Aerie, contact Teresa Stores. |
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Publications and Awards |
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2009 Writing Contest Winners Abrahms Prizes for Poetry $250 1st Prize: Matt Gilbert: “Intertidal,” “Cold Water Drowning,” “Fire-Raising” $200 2nd Prize: John Dudek: “Pigeonfoot,” “The Grey American Odyssey,” “Song by an Itch” $150 3rd Prize: Rachel Russel: “White Lady Bascojin,” “Ode to the Cactus on the Common Room Windowsill,” “A Winter’s Meeting” $75 Honorable Mention: David Speiser: “Free falling with you from forty thousand feet,” “Ode to the Ladybug in the Corner of My Room,” “Sestina” $75 Honorable Mention: James Neurath: “Abigail,” Concentration” $75 Honorable Mention: Annie Bradford: “Raindrops,” “The Night We Played Indians,” “The Convent” $75 Honorable Mention: Sarah Ortlieb: “Farewell Dignity,” “Antithesis” $75 Honorable Mention: Cara Persico: “Mandarin Oranges” $75 Honorable Mention: Tim Pettus: “The end that must be” $75 Honorable Mention: Brittany Womack: “212 Degrees” $75 Honorable Mention: Amber Ritter: “Another Life”
Abrahms Prizes for Fiction $250 1st Prize: Tim Pettus: “Gray Man” $200 2nd Prize: David Speiser: “A Game of Pool” $150 3rd Prize: Matt Gilbert: “Descendant” $75 Honorable Mention: Evan Giana: “Fortress of Solitude” $75 Honorable Mention: Annie Bradford: “The Game We Played” $75 Honorable Mention: Mary Karuna Javaji: “Not Pink, Not Blue” $75 Honorable Mention: Sarah Ortlieb: “Level” $75 Honorable Mention: Maxwell Bauman: “The Pep Rally” $75 Honorable Mention: Wil Alford: “Mourning” $75 Honorable Mention: Gordon Palmer: “The Tumbleweed Chronicles” $75 Honorable Mention: Cara Persico: “Samsara”
Abrahms Prizes for Drama $250 1st Prize: James Neurath: “Fire Me” $200 2nd Prize: Wil Alford: “Lost” $150 3rd Prize (tie): Natalie Fraser: “Foolish” $150 3rd Prize (tie): David Speiser: “What It’s Like to Murder a Lover”
Nieditz Prize for Poetry on Metaphysical or Philosophical Themes No Prize Will Be Awarded This Year...
Doyle Prizes for Personal Essay $250 1st Prize: Kaitlyn Brescia: “Ripple of Time” $200 2nd Prize: Sarah Ortlieb: “Creatively Constructed” $150 3rd Prize: Cara Persico: “Red Lights” $75 Honorable Mention: Brian Spellman: “Otherness” $75 Honorable Mention: Ryan Bradley: “Luminaries” $75 Honorable Mention: Aidan-Meghann Chambers: “Mi Abuelita, My best Friend” $75 Honorable Mention: Billiana Mihaylova: “Real Love is for Penguins” $75 Honorable Mention: Maxwell Bauman: “Broom-Saw-Saw” $75 Honorable Mention: Erin Kennedy: “The Seamstress” $75 Honorable Mention: Julie Monaco: “How Some People Make All the Difference” $75 Honorable Mention: Blair Apgar: “Lynn” $75 Honorable Mention: Meredith G. Negri: “Profound Impression” $75 Honorable Mention: Courtney Mason: “The Ex-Factor”
Doyle Prizes for Critical Essays on Literature Other Than American Literature No Prize Will Be Awarded This Year Doyle Prizes for Essays on American Literature $250 1st Prize: Blair Apgar: “Reality versus the Imagined” $200 2nd Prize (tie): Maxwell Bauman: “Walt Whitman Essay” $200 2nd Prize (tie): Laura Arnell: “Post Civil War Slavery” $50 Honorable Mention: Aidan-Meghann Chambers: “The American Dream: Myth or Reality” $75 Honorable Mention: Kimberly Ehart: “The Road: Morality and Society” Doyle Prize for Critical Essays Written in an Introductory Classes $250 1st Prize: Danielle Eichman: “GPA: Grade Point Average or a Growing Personal Anxiety?” $200 2nd Prize: Kaitlyn Brescia: “Authorial Control and Narrative Identity” $150 3rd Prize: Blair Apgar: “The Dissociative Self in Mother Night” $75 Honorable Mention: Kimberly Ehart: “White Noise: What’s the Buzz?”
$250 1st Prize: Donna Oakes: “On Death” $200 2nd Prize: Kristy Smith: “My Personal Conflict Narrative” $150 3rd Prize: Michelle Berman: “Growing Up: The Transition from High School to College” Goldstein Prizes for Essays Using Interdisciplinary Approaches $250 1st Prize: Natalie Fraser: “The Race for a Positive ‘Negro’ Identity” $200 2nd Prize: Meredith G. Negri: “Rebuilding a Nation with Debris”
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