Writing Award Winners and Honorees from 2018-2019
Perla Luna
Winner of "The Christiaan Theodoor Lievestro Prize" for her essay “The Potential and Limitations of Empathy as Resistance in The Hate U Give, Confronting the Terror Whiteness, and Negotiating Identity.”
Austin Gray
Winner of the Katherine Woodall Prize for his essay “Fit in or Get Out: The Unfortunate Binary Choice for Upwardly Mobile Black Men in America.”
Erika Rasmussen
Winner of the Tamara Verga Prize for her poems “Mylėti Means To Love (Barely Known)," “On Either Side of Jonah,” “Down To The Elbows.”
Annie Loewen
Winner of the McCann Short Story Contest for her short story “Yesterday."
Mia Hope
Runner-up for the McCann Short Story Contest for her short story “October 2nd."
Erika Rasmussen
Winner of the Shipsey Poetry Prize for her poems “Mylėti Means To Love (Barely Known),” “On Either Side of Jonah,” “Down To The Elbows.”
Kimy Grandi Soriano
Winner of the Multimodal Writing Prize for her project "How are femmes honoring Frida Kahlo’s legacy in the US?"
Mark So
Runner-up of the Multimodal Writing Prize for his movie project "I'll Make a 남자 Out of You."
Ciara Moezidis
Honorable Mention for the Multimodal Writing Prize for her project "Does 'Voluntourism' Do More Harm than Good?"
Marvah Gorlorwulu
Honorable Mention for the Multimodal Writing Prize for her project "Our Black Hair."
Leah Senatro, Julia Joyce, Riley O’Connell
Canterbury Scholars 2018-2019
Erika Rasumussen, Nadia Yonan
Canterbury Scholars 2019-2020