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Writing Award Winners and Honorees from 2021-2022

2022 Writing Award Winners and Canterbury Scholars

Mac Mann-Wood and Professor Kirstyn Leuner
Mac Mann-Wood and Professor Kirstyn Leuner

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, Jaden Fong, and Professor Kirstyn Leuner
Emma Samuel, Jaden Fong, and Professor Kirstyn Leuner

Emma Samuel

Winner of the Katherine Woodall Prize for her essay “Queerness in Measure for Measure”


Sophie Wink and Professor Claudia McIsaac
Sophie Wink and Professor Claudia McIsaac

Sophie Wink

Winner of the McCann Short Story Contest for her short story “The Girl”


Nathaniel Metz and Professor Kirk Glaser
Nathaniel Metz and Professor Kirk Glaser

Nathaniel Metz

Winner of the Shipsey Poetry Prize for his poem “Silence"


Nadine Koochou and Professor Kirk Glaser
Nadine Koochou and Professor Kirk Glaser

Nadine Koochou

2nd Place of the Shipsey Poetry Prize for her poem “For Assyrians, Past and Present”


Josephine Hernandez Mena and Professor Kirk Glaser
Josephine Hernandez Mena and Professor Kirk Glaser

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 and Professor Kirk Glaser
Sunkyo Chung and Professor Kirk Glaser

Sunkyo Chung

Honorable Mention of the Shipsey Poetry Prize for his poem “Hollow”


Jaden Fong and Professor Kirk Glaser
Jaden Fong and Professor Kirk Glaser

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
Shenir Dennis

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
Emma Kuli

Emma Kuli

Canterbury Scholar

"Cultivating Creative Storytelling"