Writing Contest Winners

 

 

2015 Writing Contest Winners

Jon Scott Nelson Freshmen Creative Writing Contest

FIRST PLACE

Grace Joy Robinette

"The Tree, Church, I Think of You Often (Sometimes Not at All) and The Coat"

Instructor: Ethel Morgan Smith

SECOND PLACE

Lauren Harvey

"Til’ Death Do Us Part"

Instructor: Jessica Guzman (English 111)

THIRD PLACE

Avery Williamson

"Montana, Ethereal Heat, Chances Given"

Instructor: Patric Nuttall (English 213)

JUDGES:

Maggie Behringer

Emily Denton

Hailey Foglio

Xin Tian Koh

Shaun Turner

Clint Wilson

Jon Scott Nelson First-Year Writing Award

Ahry Green

"I Believe in Daddy-Daughter Dates"

Instructor: Tia DeShong

Victoria Terrio

"Bundle of Joy: A Personal Narrative"

Instructor: Courtney Druzak

Luke Walters

"I Believe in ‘Living’"

Instructor: Tia DeShong

JUDGES

Megan Fahey

Samuel Horrocks

Gregory Tolliver


Jon Scott Nelson Professional Writing and Editing Award

FIRST PLACE

Corinna Blugel

"The Effect of Sponsored Blog Content on Audiences: A Literature Review"

Instructor: Jill Woods (English 301)

SECOND PLACE

Courtni Helmick

Letters/Memorandums

Instructor: Elizabeth Juckett (English 304)

JUDGE

Brian Ballentine

Waitman Barbe Creative Writing Contest

FICTION DIVISON

Paige Jarvis

"Broken Stars"

Instructor: Mark Brazaitis (English 418)
Honorable Mention:
Kiersten Woods

"Toric Lenses: Excerpt"

Instructor: Mark Brazaitis (English 418)

NON-FICTION DIVISON

Taylor Roegner

"The Box"

Instructor: Ellesa High (English 214)
Honorable Mention:
Abagail Dickerson

"The Magic of Sunapee"

Instructor: Jessica Guzman (English 111)

POETRY DIVISION

Mitchell Glazier

Various poems

Instructor: Mary Ann Samyn
Honorable Mention:
Caleb Milne

Various poems

Instructor: Not listed

JUDGES

Maggie Behringer

Emily Denton

Hailey Foglio

Xin Tian Koh

Shaun Turner

Clint Wilson

James Paul Brawner Expository Writing Contest

Undergraduate Division

FIRST PLACE

Jennifer Head

"Conversational Implicature and Robustly Uncooperative Talk Exchanges: A Defense of Gricean Theory"

Instructor: Geoff Georgi (Philosophy 312)

SECOND PLACE

Sadie Crow

"In Reference to Motherhood: Anne Bradstreet and the Obligation of Familial Life"

Instructor: Marilyn Francus (English 387W)

THIRD PLACE

Olivia Grunau

"Government Surveillance: An Unnecessary Evil"

Instructor: David Beach (English 103)

JUDGES

Anna Elfenbein

Yvonne Hammond

Rebecca Thomas

102 Division

FIRST PLACE

Marseille McBeam

"Protecting Students On and Off Campus: Expanding the Jeanne Clery Act"

Instructor: Teresa Pershing

SECOND PLACE

Cameron Killmer

"Corporatocracy: Soft Money and Nepotism in U.S. Government"

Instructor: Rebecca Doverspike

THIRD PLACE

Rachel Sager

"Rebuilding Interest in Vocational Education and Careers"

Instructor: Teresa Pershing

JUDGES

Bushan Aryl

Sharon Kelly

Clint Wilson

Graduate Division

FIRST PLACE

Sam Horrocks

"Sacred Objects: Ecocriticism and Spirit in Silko and Coleridge"

Instructor: Dennis Allen, Rosemary Hathaway, and Lisa Weihman

SECOND PLACE

Courtney Druzak

"The Medieval in the Modern, and Vice-Versa: Time and Landscape"

Instructor: Lara Farina (English 661)

JUDGES

Gwen Bergner

Anna Elfenbein

Russ MacDonald Graduate Creative Writing Contest

Fiction Division Mari Casey

"Plans"

Instructor: Glenn Taylor (English 618A)
Honorable Mention:
Andrea Ruggirello

"Words and Bones"

Instructor: Mark Brazaitis

Nonfiction Division Maryann Hudak

"The Stroke above Eternity"

Instructor: Kevin Oderman (English 618B)
Honorable Mention:
Sadie Shorr-Parks

"Growl"

Instructor: Kevin Oderman

Poetry Division

Jessica Guzman

Various Poems

Instructors: James Harms and Mary Ann Samyn (English 618)

Honorable Mention:

Travis Mersing

Various poems

Instructors: James Harms and Mary Ann Samyn (English 618)

JUDGES

Rosemary Hathaway

John Lamb

Appalachian Writing Award

Kristen Elmo

"Those Six Weeks"

Instructor: JoAnna St. Germain

Runner-up

Taylor Roegner

Poems

Instructor: Patric Nuttall (English 213)

Runner-up

Jeffrey Wilson

To Roar or not to Roar: The Ins and Outs of 1920s Morgantown, West Virginia

Instructor: Carletta Bush (History 353)

JUDGE

Dwight Harshbarger

Rebecca Mason Perry Award
MA: Courtney Druzak

MFA: Whit Arnold

MAPWE: Rachael Kelley