2020-2021
Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior and Senior
Jiakai Chang
Award: Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing
Grace Gay
Award: Outstanding Senior in Creative Writing
Nathan Omprasadham
Award: Outstanding Junior in Literature
Lauren Katz
Award: Outstanding Senior in Literature
Honors Thesis Awards
Grace Baik
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Celine Fitzpatrick
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
Sam Nguyen
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Caroline Hsu
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Edwin L. Shuman Awards
Nora Geffen
“Post-Verbum”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Keerti Gopal
“Egged”
AWARD: for Fiction
Katie Hwang
“There is No Global Pandemic”
AWARD: for Digital Media
Tanisha Tekriwal
“It Was Falling”
AWARD: for Digital Media
Helen G. Scott Prizes
Caroline Hsu
“Confronting the Age of Mass Surveillance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
AWARD: for a Critical Essay
Elizabeth Vaynblat
“Apologizing for Others: Building Sympathy and Culpability in Psycho”
AWARD: for an English First-Year Seminar Paper
Zoë Huettl
“Medical History”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Fiction
Sofia Bening
“Forever(6 letters)”
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Nonfiction
Kiersa Berg
“Best, Sincerely, With Love”
AWARD: for Digital Media
Grace Gay
“Innocent Blood [excerpts]”
AWARD: in Poetry
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets
Lennart Nielsen
“Penumbral Floaters”
Mary Kinzie Prizes
Laurisa Sastoque
“Contradicting Home; Anecdotes and Aphorisms”
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay
Grace Gay
“San Mateo Campground”
AWARD: for Fiction
David Lee
“The Escapist - Excerpts”
AWARD: for Poetry
Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper
Allison Macdonald
“The Boy Who Cried Woolf: Humor, Satire, and Feminism in Orland”
William T. Faricy Award for Poetry
Christian Thorsberg
“Proem, Strip Mall, Romancing Ghosts”