2010 Writing Contest Winners

Jon Scott Nelson Freshmen Creative Writing Contest

First Place
Kiah Harpool
“Family in the Forest”
Instructor: Patrick Herald (English 101)

Second Place
Maggie Matthews
“Boxes”
Instructor: Mary Angel Blount (English 103)

Third Place
Natalie Carpini
“Wings of Stolen Feathers”
Instructor: Amanda Cobb (English 213)

Jon Scott Nelson First-Year Writing Award

Thomas Siedlecki
“Closets are for Clothes”
Instructor: Jason Kapcala

Emily Spickler
“You Get What You Need”
Instructor: Jo Ann Dadisman

Samuel Viggiano
“Orchestrating an Orchestra”
Instructor: Christina Rothenbeck

Jon Scott Nelson Professional Writing and Editing Award

First Place
Jessica Murphy
“Basic Professional Writing Project”
Instructor: Elizabeth Juckett (English 304)

Second Place
Sarah Beth Yoder
“Polyvore: The Win-Win in Multimedia Authorship”
Instructor: Sandy Baldwin (English 303 and 305)

Third Place
Elizabeth Osborne
“A Study of a Communications Manager at the WVU Extension Service”
Instructor: Scott Wible (English 301)

Waitman Barbe Creative Writing Contest

Fiction Division
Brianna Lovell
“A Date with the Past”
Instructor: Jim Harms (English 418)

Honorable Mention:
Hayley Burdett
“Selecting Her Own Society”
Instructor: Kevin Oderman (English 418)

Non-fiction Division
Ahna Lewis
“Chinese Leeks”
Instructor: Emily Watson (English 201)

Honorable Mention:
Elliott Iannello
“Lifing Mjollnir”
Instructor: Ellesa High (English 214)

Poetry Division
Michael McCune
A series of poems
Instructor: Jim Harms (English 418)

Honorable Mention:
Andi Stout
A series of poems
Instructors: Jim Harms (English 495)

James Paul Brawner Expository Writing Contest

Undergraduate Division

First Place
Brianna Lovell
“The Enduring Stereotype: Mary Naoilles Murfree’s Mountaineer”
Instructor: Kenneth Fones-Wolf (History 473)

Second Place
Jessica Murphy
“Tanka”
Instructor: Kevin Oderman (English 418)

Third Place
Sarah Beth Yoder
“Dachshund Technical Description”
Instructor: Sandy Baldwin (English 305)

102 Division

First Place
Cody Nieman
“Church Politicking: The Problem and the Solution”
Instructor: Lori Zerne

Second Place
Maggie Matthews
“Delivering Democracy to Defend Equality: A Rhetorical Analysis of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 Civil Rights Address to the American People”
Instructor: Mary Angel Blount

Third Place
Michelle McGinley
“Reading, Writing, and . . . Obesity?: The Effect of School Lunches on Childhood Obesity”
Instructor: Ami Schiffbauer

Graduate Division

First Place
Aaron Percich
“Famished Legacies: Imperialism and Race Imagined in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road”
Instructor: Kayode Ogunfolabi

Second Place
Teresa Pershing
“The Laboring Romantics: Population Debates as Prophylactics”
Instructor: Adam Komisaruk (English 768)


Russ MacDonald Graduate Creative Writing Contest

Fiction Division
Kori Frazier
“The Girl from Chippewa Lake”
Instructor: Emily Mitchell

Honorable Mention:
Heather Frese
“An Open Letter Written to Patricia Balance (and Her Stupid Fat-Headed Son Ronnie . . .)”
Instructor: Emily Mitchell

Nonfiction Division
Emily Watson
“Sweetie Sweetie”
Instructor: Kevin Oderman (English 618)

Honorable Mention:
Sarah Einstein
“Fat”
Instructor: Kevin Oderman (English 618)

Poetry Division
Lauren Reed
“A Lot of Noticing”
Instructor: Mary Ann Samyn (English 618)

Honorable Mention:
Charity Gingerich
Various poems
Instructors: Jim Harms and Mary Ann Samyn