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English Department Prizes (formerly TriQuarterly Prizes)

2017-2018

English Department Prize for Creative Nonfiction Essay

Sylvano Caruso “Lies and Lace”

English Department Prize for Fiction

Mingxia Lim “Aphorisms”


2016-2017

English Department Prize for Critical Nonfiction

Megan Beach "The Case Against Binaries"

English Department Prize for Fiction

First Place
Lydia Weber
"Abyssinia"

Second Place
Eli Sugerman
"Taureau"

Third Place
Allessandra DiCorato
"Too Soon"

English Department Prize for Creative Nonfiction Essay

Natasya Popov "Orphans"


2015-2016

English Department Prize in Fiction

Erin Holiday "Reserves"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Mahalia Sobhani "Bitch"

English Department Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature

Ekta Shah "The American Enlightenment's Voice of Resaon: Hearing Echoed in The Federalist Papers"

English Department Prize for an Outstanding Critical Essay

David Kaye "'Homo Amans': Natural Loving-Kindness as Thomas Hardy's 'True Religion'"


2014-2015

English Department Prize in Critical Nonfiction

Kyle Allen-Niesen “Globalization, Oceans, and Robert Redford: J.C. Chandor’s All is Lost as Allegory for the State of the American Dream”

English Department Prize in Fiction

Nastasya Popov "Terminal Island"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Michael Chin "River's Tale"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Joan Sergay "The Weiner's Circle"


2013-2014

English Department Prize in Fiction

Nicholas Smith "L'ile d'or"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Rana Khoury "On Shale & Chestnuts"

English Department Prize in Critical Nonfiction

Graham Duff "Time for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical" 


2012-2013

English Department Prize in Fiction

Michael Fu "Time + Weight"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Catherine Rolfe "A Forged Path"


2011-2012

English Department Prize in Critical Nonfiction

Sam Alex Raim "U(RI)NIFICATION: Catechism and Grotesque Humor in Joyce's Ithaca"

English Department Prize in Fiction

Anna Miles "Hello Moon"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Jonathan Gleason Armando"


2010-2011

English Department Prize in Fiction

Simon Han "Texas Boy, 7, Drifts away in a Blimp."

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Julianne Hill "Buffalo People"


2009-2010

English Department Prize for Essay in Creative Writing in Fiction

Kevin McFarland "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"

English Department Prize for Essay in Creative Writing in Non-Fiction

Jon Ayala "The Most Mature Thing I've Ever Done"


2008-2009

English Department Prize in Fiction

John Miley "We That Are Young"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Elizabeth Granger "Who Couldn't Use a Vegetable Peeler"


2007-2008

English Department Prize in Fiction

Kristin Burns "Euryale"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Eric Wilson "Thoughts on a Portugese Man O' War"


2006-2007

English Department Prize in Fiction

Diana Xin "Home"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Lauren Olson "Cherie"


2005-2006

English Department Prize in Fiction

Brooks Teevan "Ordering Pizza from a Murder"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Bridget Ganske "Learning Esperer"


2004-2005

English Department Prize in Fiction

Anna Heatwole "On Waiting for the Editor's Note"

English Department Prize in Fiction

John Dixon "People are People"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Adrienne Bernhard "Thoughs on the Chiapas Delegation: Mujeres de Maiz en Resistencia"


2003-2004

English Department Prize in Fiction

Katherine Rekkas "Tzivaeri"

English Department Prize in Fiction

Jennifer Frank "Lapse"

English Department Prize in Fiction

Nicole Cusick "Impressionism"


2002-2003

English Department Prize in Fiction

Talton Wingate "We Interrupt"

English Department Prize for Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Andrew Brommel "Spinning Narratives"