English Department Award Winners!

2024 Award Winners: 

Literary Scholarships:

Drane Lester: Larina Anderson, 

Alton Bryant: Josiah Avery, Kennedy Beamon, and Israel Cummins

Evans-Harrington: Noah Walters, Poetry “Appeal To Craft” | Locklyn Wilchynski, Poetry Runner-Up ” Crossed” | Sydney Stepp- Prose “Dragons Do Not Live Here” | Nathan Donohue- Prose Runner-Up “Stormchild”

Ella Somerville: Catherine Carter- Poetry “Country Road 205” | Phoebe Goodwin- Prose “Jack’s Girls”

Elmo Howell British Literature: Grace Mattingly

Shamblin-Anderson Scholarship: Sydney Stepp

Barry and Susan Hannah Award: Allison Paige Barnett

2023 Award Winners: 

Literary Scholarships:

Drane Lester: Emily Suh

Alton Bryant: Syd Guntharp, Catherine Carter, and Natalie Gumm

Evans Harrington: Ellis Farese, Poetry | Natalie Gumm, Fiction |

Ella Somerville: Max Hunt, Poetry “| Rebekah Cook, Fiction |

Evans-Harrington Contest:  Winner: Allie Barnett | Runner Up:  Will Jones

Sommerville Prize: Ryan Medina, poetry  | Adele Cardwell, Fiction

Bondurant Prize Christopher Morris, fiction |Hussain Ahmed, poetry

2021-22 Award Winners:

ELMO HOWELL BRITISH LITERATURE AWARD:  Katie Gidley, Justin Fulcher, and  Sam Stewart

VIRGINIA MORGAN AWARD: Emily Suh

DRANE LESTER AWARD:  Cara Smart

CAMPBELL AWARD:  Katherine Torres Cruz

BRYANT SCHOLARSHIP: Maisie Smith and  Casey McCarthy

2021 Graduate Student Creative Writing Award Winners!

BONDURANT PRIZE

Noel Quinones, poetry
Read Noel’s submission “Denim Wings” HERE.

ELVIS MEETS EINSTEIN CONTEST 

Stephen Hundley, 1st place.

Teagan Kessler, 2nd place.
Read Teagan’s submission “No New Normal” HERE.

Linda Flynn, 3rd place

BARRY AND SUSAN HANNAH AWARD: Hussain Ahmed and  Christopher Morris

2021 Undergraduate Award Winners!

EVANS HARRINGTON CREATIVE WRITING SCHOLARSHIP: Dennis Foster

ELLA SOMERVILLE CONTEST: Stella Martin, poetry |  Lauren Elmore, fiction

2020 Undergraduate Award Winners!

W. ALTON BRYANT AWARD FOR RISING JUNIORS: Lucy Jones and  Kellie Smith

DRANE LESTER AWARD FOR RISING SENIORS:  Tharangi Fernando

FAYSSOUX CORNEIL CAMPBELL AWARD:  Polly Watkins

ELMO HOWELL BRITISH LITERATURE AWARD:  Joshua Mannery,  Ameliea Dulaney

VIRGINIA MORGAN SCHOLARSHIP:  Annabelle Harris

CHUCK FULGHAM MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: Lawson Marchetti