Adam Messinger ('20) has won a New York Press Association award for his article "Kurt, Courtney and the Monks."

Priya Tait (’21) presented her essay, “Bringing Queerness into Non-Queer Narratives,” as a finalist at the 2021 Whalen Symposium.

Cory Brown, professor in the Department of Writing, recently published a book of poems, A Long Slow Climb, with Cayuga Lake Books.

This year there will be four summer scholars in writing, working with faculty members of our department.

Senior Lauren Eng won both the Dean's Award for the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Sally Parr Memorial Award.

Senior Mae McDermott won both the Dean's Award for the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Sally Parr Memorial Award.

Nicole Hernández Arocho ('15) published an e-chapbook of poetry with Sundress Publications.

Associate Professor Christine Kitano was recently named the poet laureate of Tompkins County.

Assistant Professor Eric Howd will be publishing his collection of poetry, Universal Monsters, with the Orchard Street Press.

Jasmine Gayle ('17) wrote an article that was published in Mindbodygreen.

Alexandria DeVita ('21) has been published with a byline in Travel Curator.

Elizabeth Charles ('18) had a short story published in the Tahoma Literary Review.

Writing minor Danielle Lee (‘19) has published an article in Essence.

Rebecca Brutus ('20) has been awarded a Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship.

Luke Broadwater ('02) of The Baltimore Sun has been awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting.

Writing major Margaret McKinnis ('20) has been named one of this year's Phi Kappa Phi Presidential Scholars.

A food blog by alumna Tess Le Moing ('16) has been chosen as a finalist for Saveur magazine's 2019 Blog Awards.

Writing major Leah Skay ('21) has been named a finalist in Iron Horse Literary Review's 2019 PhotoFinish Contest.