Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The American Academy of Poets

Andrew Rawson 
"River Eels"

J. Scott Clark Award for Outstanding Aptitude in Creative Writing

Susan Wunderink 
"My Mother and I Wander the House the Night Her Aunt Dies"

Harriet Gilliam Memorial Prize For best essay on Psychological interpretation of a literary text

Nicholas Soodik 
"Theorizing the Reverse Peephole: Cock-Eyed Images of Desire in Seinfeld, Speigel, and Shakespeare"

Chester G. Hanson Award

FIRST PRIZE
Zoe Mentel 

SECOND PRIZE
Andrew Brommel 

Robert Mayo Memorial Prize

David Baltmanis 
"Lower Frequencies and the Higher Interests of Society"

English Department Prizes

Best Fiction Essay

Talton Wingate 
"We Interrupt"

Best Creative Nonfiction Essay

Andrew Brommel 
"Spinning Narratives"

Best Critical Essay in American Literature

Michael Emmons 
"Ladies in their Letters: The Equivocal Nature of Female relationships in Hannah W. Foster's The Coquette"