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English/Philosophy Student Writing Award Winners


On behalf of the English/Philosophy Student Writing Awards Committee, please join me in congratulating our award winners!

2011 Rice Award Best Essay Winner: Melissa Townsend for her personal narrative essay “In Bathroom Stalls.”

2011 Rice Award Best Essay Second Place Winner: Krystal Marie Cunningham for her essay “Whispers of Injustice: The Sexual Exploitation and Dehumanization of Black Women in America.”

2011 Cooney Award Best Literary Essay Winner: Erik Johnson for his literary analysis essay “An Interpretation of Yellow throughout ‘Maggie: A Girl of the Streets’.”

2011 Cooney Award Best Literary Essay Second Place Winner: Benjamin Broberg for his literary analysis essay “Myth of Female Sexual Inferiority.”

2011 Langlois Award Best Short Fiction Winner: Pam Howe for her short fiction “A Jar Fulla Butterflies.”

2011 Langlois Award Best Short Fiction Second Place Winner: Patrick Riordan for his short fiction “Mister Ambulance Man.”

2011 Cloos-Susskind Award Best Poem Winner: Patrick Riordan for his poem “Words for Henry Dalton.”

2011 Cloos-Susskind Award Best Poem Second Place Winner: Pam Howe for her poem “may december romance. us.”

2011 Sixth Act Award Best One-Act Play Winner: Pam Howe for her play “Disclosure.”

2011 Sixth Act Award Best One-Act Play Winner: Hannah Irwin for her play “Stuck.”

2011 Sixth Act Award Best One-Act Play Winner: Laron Hagan for his play “Noble Lie.”

2011 McMurray Award Best Philosophical Essay Winner: Roberta Robison for her essay “Movies: The Second-Hand Reproductions of the Real.”

Thank you to everyone who entered, encouraged students to enter, and offered support for our endeavor to honor excellence in student writing.

Angelique Johnston
English/Philosophy
05/06/2011