School of Writing, Literature, and Film

Scholarship winners:

Presented by members of the Scholarship Committee: Jennifer Richter, Sindya Bhanoo, Gilad Elbom, Jillian St. Jacques, and Lucia Stone

Sigurd H. Peterson Memorial Scholarship, 4-year: Ava Wittman

Sigurd H. Peterson Memorial Scholarship, 1-year: Liam Murphy, Flora Snowden

Mary Holaday Murray Scholarship: Daphne Komut, Alexandra Wood

Bernard Malamud Memorial Scholarship: Jay Schoepflin

Raleigh Clare Dickinson Scholarship: Katherine Burges

Irwin C. Harris Legacy Scholarship: Alexander Banks

Eric Gakstatter Family Journalism Scholarship: Emma Coke, Cailan Menius-Rash

Goldstein Journalism Scholarship: Ashley Estevan, Karissa Kyker, Katelyn Livermore, Zeva Rosenbaum

Award winners:

Graduate Essay Award: Selene Ross

For “The Foley of Fiction”

Schwartz Essay Award: Kali Trueblood

For “The Political Context of Book Banning in the United States: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”

Smith-Norris Essay Award: Natalie Donato

For “Salutations Cetaceans”

Elroy Bode Creative Nonfiction Award:

Isa Roberts, Mohammed Al Omar, Matthew Chapman, and Jeremy Schaffer

For “Some 3.11 FISH”

WIC Culture of Writing Award, English: Adriana Gutierrez

For “The Viewer and the Spectacle: How the ‘Sensitive Monster’ is Born in The Moonstone”

WIC Culture of Writing Award, Creative Writing: Austin Thornton

For “Evidence on the Matter of My Parents; Exhibit B:”

CLA Outstanding Senior Award: Anna Brandt

The Provost’s Literary Prize

PROSE: Lillian Hayden
For “Harold and Harold”

POETRY: Flora Snowden
For “Interstate Exit 675: Thanksgiving”

The Lisa Ede Award: Olivia Rowland

Graduate Creative Writing Awards

FICTION: “Nice Girls” by Selene Ross

Honorable Mention: “Do you remember that time, in the toolshed?” by Miranda Kross  

POETRY: "Show Me Something from Missouri" by Daniel Weiner

Honorable Mention: “blessed are the meek” by Anna Gayle

NONFICTION: “Some Broke Magnificently” by Nola Iwasaki

Honorable Mention: “Owl Story” by Katie Cusumano

Weaver Award

Flora Snowden

Honorable Mention: Jay Schoepflin, Layne Bolen

Students eat and mingle at the 2023 SWLF Celebrates event

Photo by Blake Brown