2024 Winners – Congratulations!

  English Department Scholarships and Awards

• The Frank G. and Nicole McGuire Scholarship: Faith Monesteri
• The Bessie Saslaw Solomon Memorial Scholarship: Paloma Lupino
• The Shari Kandell Scholarship: Lauren Rivera
• The W. Leonard Newman Award: Tyler Paladino
• The English Department Teacher Education Award: Jenny Both
• The Bernard Fleischmann Memorial Award: Juliet Brown
• The Anthony Lovasco Shakespeare Award: Christopher Halstead
• The Elizabeth Dean Eler Memorial Award: Connor McCall
• The Murray Prosky Prize in Irish Literature: Samantha Barros
• The Vivien L. Kwiatek Scholarship: Briana Tolbert-Fitzgerald, Justin Holley, Menen Gowdie, Maria Lagomarsino, Grace Romitelli, Joseph Visco
• The Janet Holt scholarship: Katelyn McKeever

Graduate Scholarships and Awards

• The Mary Bondon Graduate Scholarship: Melinda Ninewise
• The Lawrence H. Conrad Memorial Scholarship: Lexi Merring

Creative Writing Awards

The Johnny Muller Memorial Scholarship in Fiction:
Winner: Faith Monesteri, “The Fairy Tale Villain Support Group”
Honorable mention: Delilah Summerer, “Miniature Sun”

The Tom Benediktsson Award for Poetry:
Winner: Micaela Warren, “the traveler,” “first snow in a warm year,” and “mountain lions”
Honorable mention: Bailey Dunn, “Die Schippe,” “Ausländer Autumn,” and “Piros Yesterday”

The Carter Ross Flash Fiction Award:
Winner: Emily Christian, “Bones of Chartreuse”
Honorable mention: Bailey Dunn, “Horse Girl”

The Minnie Max Award for Creative Nonfiction:
Winner: Katherine Priegue, “Colors of my Grandfather”
Honorable mention: Leila Chomski, “A Good Shabbos”

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