Our 2023 scholarship and award winners
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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
Anna Brandt receives the CLA Outstanding Senior award
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Selene Ross holds her certificate for the Graduate Essay Award
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Daniel Weiner receives the Creative Writing Award for Poetry
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Students eat and mingle at the 2023 SWLF Celebrates event
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Emma Coke receives the Eric Gakstatter Family Journalism Scholarship
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Mohammed Al Omar receives the Elroy Bode Creative Nonfiction Award
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Friends and family of students gather to celebrate
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SWLF director Tim Jensen gives a speech
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Lillian Hayden receives The Provost's Literary Prize for Prose
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