The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce this year’s winners. For more details, including the judges’ comments on the winning work, click here.
The Peregrine Prize from the Academy of American Poets
Awarded to the best original poetry by a graduate student
Contest judge: Rachel Zolf
Winner: Mir Masud-Elias
The College Alumni Society Poetry Prize
Awarded to the best original poetry by an undergraduate student
Contest judge: Rachel Zolf
Winner: Sofia Sears
Second Place: Daniel Cooper
Third Place: Pamela de la Cruz
Honorable mentions: Walden Green, Erin O’Malley
The Phi Kappa Sigma Fiction Prize
Awarded to the best original short story by an undergraduate student
Contest judge: Weike Wang
Winner: Jessica Bao
Second Place: Emma Blum
Third Place: Michelle Paolicelli
Honorable Mentions: Dylan Cook, Pearl Liu, Jack Kiyonaga
The Judy Lee Award for Dramatic Writing
Awarded to a graduate or undergraduate student for the best script (stage, screen, television, or radio)
Contest judge: Brooke O’Harra
Winner: Sofia Sears
Second Place: Kate Kearns
Third Place (tie): Edmund Cai, Keely Douglas
The Lilian and Benjamin Levy Award
Awarded to the best review by an undergraduate student of a current play, film, music release, book, or performance
Contest judge: Anthony DeCurtis
Winner: Jessica Bao
Second Place: Lauren Reiss
Third Place: Beatrice Forman
The Gibson Peacock Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Awarded to the best creative nonfiction piece by an undergraduate student
Contest judge: Marion Kant
Winner: Andrew Basile
Second Place: Wanqi Fang
Third Place: Jillian Pesce
Honorable Mentions: Jessica Bao, Urooba Abid
The Parker Prize for Journalistic Writing
Awarded to the best newspaper or magazine article, feature story, exposé or other piece of investigative journalism by an undergraduate student
Contest judge: Lise Funderburg
Winner: Kylie Cooper
Second Place: Rachel Winicov
Third Place: Beatrice Forman