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The English/Philosophy Department Announces its 36th Annual Writing Contest Winners


The following students will be honored at the English / Philosophy Department essay awards ceremony on May 9th.

Rice Award for Best Essay
First Place “Conscious Evolution of US Energy Policy” by M. Valerie Coushaine
Second Place “Foreign Pleasure” by Stephen Berds

Cooney Award for Best Literary Essay
First Place “Louise Gluck’s Snowdrops & the Genetics of Sonnets” by Jesse Anderson
Second Place “America is Electrocuting Strangers” by Dan Corbitt

Cloos-Susskind Award for Best Poem
First Place “Reactions” by Kelli Smith
Second Place “Sestina for Bryan Gerhardt” by Brian Guthrie

Langlois Award for Best Short Fiction
First Place “Heading South” by Kelly Robinson
Second Place “Things I Never Told You” by Elizabeth Horneber
Second Place “Powaqqatsi” by Dan Corbitt

McMurray Award for Best Philosophical Essay
First Place “Candide and the Philosophy of Voltaire” by Kevin Drake
Second Place “Argument for Revolutionary Thinking” by Josh Bascome

Angelique Stevens
English/Philosophy
05/03/2007