2012 Writing Awards
(Click on links to read winning entries)
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Barnard Award
Winner -
Taylor Smith for"Radiance"
Finalists -
Benjamin Greenwald
for "The Hunter Becomes the Hunted"
Tevra Boris
for "To Cross or not to Cross"
(Picture from left to right: Benjamin Greenwald, Taylor Smith, Tevra Boris, and NMU Instructor Melody McNeill)
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Houston Award
Winner - Thomas Ian Beddows for
"Formal Report: Summary of Scientific Research Concerning Trientalis borealis"
Finalists - Alesha Bartlett
for "The Tale of Two Dallards"
Dorthy Anderson
for "Groundhog Day"
(Picture from left to right: Dorthy Anderson, Thomas Ian Beddows, and NMU Instructor Melody McNeill)
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Legler Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner - Josh Starbuck for "An American Dream"
1st Runner-up - Willow Grosz for "Up It Went"
2nd Runner-up - Grace Makley for "To a Place I've Been"
3rd Runner-up - Katelyn Durst for "The Lament of the Ex-Mennonite Farms in Lancaster & Franklin Counties"
4th Runner-up - Abbegail Hoye for "The little things I can't keep here."
(Picture from left to right: Willow Grosz, Grace Makley, Professor Beverly Matherne, Katelyn Durst, and Abbegail Hoye)
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VandeZande Fiction Prize
Winner - Bradley Aleman for "The Santa Truth"
Finalists - Reannon Dykehouse for "Halls for a King"
Josey Bonini-Aalto for "Love, Pills, & Wintertime"
Hannah Schug for "Daughter, or: If My Parents Had Never Gotten It On"
Russell Pierce for "How to get spent"
(Picture from left to right: Professor Paul Lehmberg, Bradley Aleman, Josey Bonini-Aalto, Hannah Schug, Reannon Dykehouse)
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Cohodas Literary Prize
1st Prize, Grace Renwand, "The Experience of the Deaf During the Holocaust"
2nd Prize, John Schimek, "Tolerance and Hospitality: the Key to Religious Plurality"
3rd Prize, Irene McCauley, "White Noise"
