Writing Award Winners and Honorees from 2021-2022
2022 Writing Award Winners and Canterbury Scholars
Mac Mann-Wood
Winner of "The Christiaan Theodoor Lievestro Prize" for their portfolio of essays
“Literature and Liberation: Not One Without the Other”, “Good Versus Evil & Light Versus Dark in The Book of Night Women”, “Literacy as a Tool of Ableism: Yes, Even in Apocalyptic Contexts”
Jaden Fong
Winner of the Katherine Woodall Prize for his essay “Physiological and Spiritual Health in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women”
Emma Samuel
Winner of the Katherine Woodall Prize for her essay “Queerness in Measure for Measure”
Sophie Wink
Winner of the McCann Short Story Contest for her short story “The Girl”
Nathaniel Metz
Winner of the Shipsey Poetry Prize for his poem “Silence"
Nadine Koochou
2nd Place of the Shipsey Poetry Prize for her poem “For Assyrians, Past and Present”
Josephine Hernandez Mena
3rd Place of the Shipsey Poetry Prize for her poem “I like the sound my puffer jacket makes when I walk”
Sunkyo Chung
Honorable Mention of the Shipsey Poetry Prize for his poem “Hollow”
Jaden Fong
Winner of the Academy of American Poets Tamara Verga Prize for his poem “Elegy for a Found Animal Skull”
Nathaniel Metz
Honorable Mention of The Academy of American Poets Tamara Verga Prize for his poem “Somewhere Else Doing Strange Work”
Irene Maeve Corbett
Winner of the Multimodal Writing Prize for her project on Body Image
Ruby Gutierrez
Honorable Mention of the Multimodal Writing Prize for her project on Environmental Racism
2022-2023 Canterbury Scholars
Nathaniel Metz
“Poetry Manuscript Exploring Nature, Language, and Living Connection”
Tavi De Leon
“Teaching writing Processes Equitably to ESL Students”
2021-2022 Canterbury Scholars
Shenir Dennis
Canterbury Scholar
"We're Just As Valuable As Other Students": Connecting the Past of Activism Among Students of Color at SCU to the Present"
Emma Kuli
Canterbury Scholar
"Cultivating Creative Storytelling"