2013 Writing Contest Winners

Jon Scott Nelson Freshmen Creative Writing Contest

 

First Place

Shana Burleson

“Shanrick”

Instructor: Tom Sura

 

Second Place
Caleb Milne
Poems
Instructor: Amanda Cobb

 

Third Place
Ifunanya Okonkwo
“Multi−Angle Personal Narrative”
Instructor: Christina Seymour

 

 

Jon Scott Nelson First-Year Writing Award

 

Samantha Clarkson

“What’s Up Broski?!”
Instructor: Marianne Casey

 

Alyssa Noe

“69^th Street”
Instructor: Jessica Guzman

 

James O’Hara
“The Price of Parity”
Instructor: (not listed on entry)

 

 

Jon Scott Nelson Professional Writing and Editing Award

 

Celeste Lantz

Zoos: Pure Entertainment or Source for Humanity?
Instructor: Teresa Pershing

 

Waitman Barbe Creative Writing Contest

 

Fiction Division

Sarah Hartman
“The Old Man and the Whelks”
Instructor: Rebecca Thomas

 

Honorable Mention:
Allison Eckman
“Remains”
Instructor: Shane Stricker

 

Non-fiction Division
Katie Quinnelly
“The Insecurities of Fungi”
Instructor: Ellesa High

 

Honorable Mention:
Stephanie Anderson
“The Big Farm”
Instructor: Kevin Oderman

Poetry Division

Caleb Stacy
Various poems
Instructors: Mark Brazaitis and Glenn Taylor
 

Honorable Mention:

Travis Mersing
Various poems
Instructors: Mary Ann Samyn and Glenn Taylor

 

 
 

James Paul Brawner Expository Writing Contest

 

Undergraduate Division

 

First Place
Jennifer Head
“Rake Reformation as Performative in Richardson’s Pamela: Exploring Gendered Notions of Sexuality and Reputation in the Eighteenth Century”
Instructor:  Marilyn Francus

 

Second Place
Jordan Lovejoy
“On the Bright Side, I’m Not an Illiterate Virgin Anymore: Challenges to Sexual Content in the Young Adult Novels Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging and Speak”
Instructor:  Rosemary Hathaway

 

Third Place
Shana Burleson
“Remarks on Remarks”
Instructor: Tom Sura

 

 

102 Division

First Place

Logan Michael
“Dying Environment or Just Dead Space?”
Instructor: Erin Johns Speese

 

Second Place
Christopher Seal
“Undoing the American Females Sexual Stigmas to Reduce Gender-Based Inequality”
Instructor: Teresa Pershing
 

Third Place

Jasmine Gonzalez
“The Cost of Success: An Educational Encumbrance in the American Dream”
Instructor: Anne Cain

 

Graduate Division

 

First Place
Aaron Percich
“I sea.  The See: Envisioning the Postcolonial in ‘Proteus’”
Instructor: Lisa Weihman

 

Second Place

Dibyadyuti (Dibs) Roy

“Reassessing the Nuclear Public Sphere: Nuclear Counterpublics and Deabstracting the ‘Secret’ Bomb through Nucliteracy”
Instructor: Adam Komisaruk

 

 

Russ MacDonald Graduate Creative Writing Contest

Fiction Division
Shane Stricker
“Every Animal Which Parts the Hoof and Is Not Cloven-Footed”
Instructor: Glenn Taylor

 

Honorable Mention:
Rebecca Thomas
“Stage Three”
Instructor: Mark Brazaitis

 

 Nonfiction Division
Rebecca Doverspike

“If it Were Mine to Give”
Instructor: Ethel Morgan Smith

 

Honorable Mention:
Hannah McPherson
“A Psalm for my Father”
Instructor: Ethel Morgan Smith

 

Poetry Division
Melissa Atkinson
Various Poems
Instructor: James Harms

 

Honorable Mention:
Sara Kearns
Various poems
Instructors: James Harms and Mary Ann Samyn

 

 

Appalachian Writing Award

 

Caleb Stacy
“The Burning of Wilsondale”
Instructors: Mark Brazaitis (English 318) and Glenn Taylor (English 418)