2002-2003
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"