FICTION
Lawrence Collerd – “Feeling Daedalus”
Anna Simonak – “Hold Your Breath”
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Greg Allocco – “Life after Baseball”
Lawrence Collerd – “Wrigley, Sandburg, Jordan, City of the Big Shoulders”
POETRY
Corey Millard – “Jon”
Sean Mix – “Birthday”
EXPOSITORY ESSAY
Matthew Douglas – “The Evil Empire?”
Brad Geyer – “Living In America”
FIRST-YEAR ESSAY
Will Holets –“The Oil Reserves in ANWR: Who Will Benefit from Extraction?”
Laura Abbott – “Voices Provided by Acme”
The Department of Writing is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Writing Contest. We again had hundreds of entries and our judges completed the tough job of selecting winners in each category.
FICTION
Nina Boutsikaris – “Maxine Before the War”
Carrie-Lynne Davis – “Mustache and Gums: A Love Story”
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Colin Oettle – “Italy”
Shanan Glandz – “The Tyranny of Ringxiety”
POETRY
Kath Tibbetts – “Ode to the girl made of broken glass”
Carlene Willsie – “A Letter to Lost George”
EXPOSITORY ESSAY
Bart Comegys – “Living with the Wild”
Shanan Glandz – “My Brilliant Career: I am”
FIRST-YEAR ESSAY
Daniel Weller – “The Coming of Age of a Ken Doll”
Terri Trovato – “Severed Ties”
There was a Reading & Celebration for the 2009 Writing Contest winners in the Handwerker Gallery on Thursday April 30, 2009 at 6:30p.m. Students read from their winning entries and there was also an Open Reading.
The Department of Writing distributed a small volume of the winning entries.
Many thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Writing Contest. We look forward to the 2010 Writing Contest.
Contact Lynn Hyde lhyde@ithaca.edu with any questions.
