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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.

University of Hartford

Department of English

200 Bloomfield Avenue

West Hartford, CT 06117

860-768-4315

 

galin@hartford.edu

Publications and Awards

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?”


Doyle Prize for a Personal Essay Written in an Introductory Class

$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”