Heartiest congratulations to the English Department Prize winners for 2021-2022!
Drama Prize
Charlotte Foote ‘22 - The Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting for ”Ghost Fruit”
Gabrielle Poisson ‘22 - The Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting for ”Drinking Games” and “Nice Girl”
Fiction Prizes
Cal Barton ‘25 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Fiction for “Aeriel”
Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind ‘24 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Death Sentence”
Jun Ray Hoong ‘25 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Fiction for “Where the poets sang about”
George Nighswander ‘22 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “The First Death of Bartholomew Holland”
Alexandra Rocha-Alvarez ’22 - Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “Cereus in the Warehouse”
Arinjay Singhai ‘22- Elmore A. Willetts Prize for Fiction for “The Whistle of a Pressure Cooker”
Nonfiction Prizes
Samara Angel ‘22 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Rules of a Woman Untethered”
Gabrielle Colangelo ’ 22 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Dyke About Towns”
Zachary Groz ‘24 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize and John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a longer work of nonfiction for “When Yale Harbored A Nazi”
Mackenzie Hawkins ‘22 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a “body of work” for “Body of Journalistic Work-Kelly Smith”
Eric Krebs ‘22 - John Hersey Prize in Journalism for a “body of work” for “Writing Portfolio”
Elliot Lewis ‘23 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “Carcass Balancing”
Jack McCordick ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for a longer work of nonfiction for “Figures of Speech”
Evita Thadhani ‘24 - Henry P. Wright Prize for “The Body as a Thing”
Poetry Prizes
Vaughn Goehrig ‘23 - Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for “Six Poems”
Kinsale Hueston ‘23 - Academy of American Poets Prize for “Red Running into Water”
Audrey Kim ‘25 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for Frirst Year Poetry for “Four Poems”
Logan Klutse ‘23 - Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for “Five Poems”
Isabel Prioleau ‘25 - J. Edward Meeker Prize for First Year Poetry for “Aliased Elegies”
Honorable Mentions: Adin Feder and Luke Stringer
First Year Prizes
Bluebell Carroll ‘25 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Time to Go”
Yuen Ning Chang ‘25 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Andres Reyes: A Lonely, Pathetic Man”
Alessia Degraeve ‘25 - Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for “The Pursuit of Moby Dick”
Elishevlyne Eliason ‘25 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “Angels of Death”
Audrey Kolker ‘25 - J. Edward Meeker First Year English Prize for “The Case for Vows”
Kyra McCreery ‘25 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “Journeys Across Time: The Inescapable Continuities of Nature and Being in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being”
Magdalena Moore ‘25 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Portrayals of Pain and the Opioid Crisis”
River Sell ‘25 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “Commonwealth v. Sharpless and the Invention of American Obscenity”
Sarah Sun ‘25 - McLaughlin Memorial Prize for Excellence in English composition for “In the House of Memory”
Luc Ta ‘25 - Winston T. Townsend Prize “for excellence in English composition” for “The Sons of the Soil: Race and Class in Still’s Afro-American Symphony
Michael Tu ‘25 - Bloch Prize “for the best essay in English” for “Love and Illness in Shakespeare’s Sonnets”
Sophomore Prizes
Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind ‘24 - C. Wyllis Betts Prize and John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Coldness and Creation in ‘Grief Poem’ and Une saison dans la vie d’Emmanuel”
Georgia Wolterbeek ‘24 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Record and Ruin: Colonial and Archival Violence and Escape in Waiting for the Barbarians”
American Literature Prizes for Juniors and Seniors
Mauricio Gonzalez Sanchez ‘22 - Richard Schoenberg Prize for “the best critical essay upon an American poet” for “Abandoning the Key to the Pattern: Nabokov’s Pnin as a Reparative Reader”
Elliot Lewis ‘23 - Henry H. Strong Prize in American Literature for “You. Yes, You: Interpellation in Citizen and White Girls
Junior Prizes
Adin Feder ‘23 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Hebrew Rides the Train”
Isaac Gruber ‘23 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for “love of the English language and facility in writing” for “Against Tennyson? The Final Simile of ‘The Scholar-Gypsy’”
Senior Prizes
Gabrielle Colangelo ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Silvia Dobson’s Prosaic World” ; Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English; and Sholom & Marcia Herson Scholarship Prize “for students in the Senior Class … who shall have done outstanding work in English Language and Literature and who intend to do graduate work in English literature”
Sarah Gannett ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “A Cascade of Shifts in the Brain”: Kay Ryan’s Poetics
Danny Germino-Watnick ‘22 - Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English
Mauricio Gonzalez-Sanchez ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “New Worth, Old Story: Methodologies of Collage in Kabe Wilson’s Of One Woman or So”
Naima Gupta ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Necro-Hope: The Corpse in the Corpus of Kashmiri Short Stories”
Caroleine James ‘22 - John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English Courses and in a Senior Essay for “Gently Down the Stream, Life is but a Dream: Agency and the Courtship Plot in David Copperfield and The Mill on the Floss” and Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize for the Outstanding Senior in English
Kyung Mi Lee ‘22 - Ralph Paine Memorial Prize for the Best Senior Essay in English for “Hester Pulter’s Double Lives: Confinement and Escape in ‘Poems Written by The Right Honorable H.P.’”
Curtis Sun ‘22 - Edward Thompkins McLaughlin Scholarship for Outstanding Work in the Major
Aidan Swift ‘22 - Edward Thompkins McLaughlin Scholarship for Outstanding Work in the Major and Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an Outstanding Senior Essay in English for “In the Intervals of Inspiration…a Poet Becomes a Man”