UC Writing Award Winners, 2011
Meyer (Mike) Greenstein Memorial Student Award for Writing Excellence:
Justin Miller, "Bad Time Laughter"
Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing:
First prize:
Andrew Woodrow-Butcher, "Dereglement"
Second prizes:
Stephanie Wong, "Got to be real"
Christine Kang, "Free Time"
Frederic Davidson Competition:
First prize:
Julia Michiko Hori, "History and its Ways"
Second prize:
Stephanie Wong, "Dark Nights, Exotic City"
Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing: National Literary Contest for University Students
First prize:
Jon Flieger, "Transfer"
Second prizes:
Erina Harris, "For The Suicide Of Vespertine"
Daniel Karasik, "Faithful"
Third prizes:
Claire Ferris, "A Pond Edged"
Griffin McInnes, "Dead in Wawa"
UC Writing Award Winners, 2010
Meyer (Mike) Greenstein Memorial Student Award for Writing Excellence:
Matthew Malone, "Contemporary Divisions over Queer Identity in Israel"
Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing:
First prize:
Andre Babyn, "Imperfect Homes"
Third prizes:
Robert Frost, “A Song of Liberty”
Paloma Lev-Aviv, "Flat on the Cracker"
Evan O’Donnell, "America"
Adeli Alban Reyna, "Flecks of Winter"
Frederic Davidson Competition:
First prize:
Claire Marie Stancek, "The Glass Divide: Proximity, Distance, and Problems of Communication in Two Poems by Keats”
Second prize:
Fariya Walji, "The Exploration of Secondary Detectives in Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"
Third prize:
Anna Gallagher-Ross, "'I recall them so they take place': Performative Memory in Harold Pinter’s Old Times"
UC Writing Award Winners, 2009
Meyer (Mike) Greenstein Memorial Student Award for Writing Excellence:
Not awarded in 2009
Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing:
First prize:
Jane Bao, "In Transit"
Second prize:
Jane Bao, "Club Med"
Third prize:
Jane Bao, "Boys’ Club Dismembered"
Frederic Davidson Competition:
Not awarded in 2009
UC Writing Award Winners, 2008
Meyer (Mike) Greenstein Memorial Student Award for Writing Excellence:
Caitlin Tobiasz, "Museums and Monumental Architecture of the 21st Century: Questions Raised by Libeskind's Michael Lee-Chin Crystal."
Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing:
no winner for 2008.
Frederic Davidson Competition:
First prize:
Emily Sugarman, "My Ruinous Anatomy: Love, Death, and Dissolution in Four Poems by John Donne."
Second prize:
Ana Lopez, "From Deconstructing to Constructing: Women's Relation to Avant-Garde Cinema."
Third prize:
Emily Sugarman, "The Song of the Roaring Girl."
UC Writing Award Winners, 2007
Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing:
Giles Hodge, “Worthy.”
Frederic Davidson Competition:
First prize:
Vanessa Corlazzoli, "Political Leadership in South America: Chavez vs the Moderates."
Second prize:
Justin Maxwell Norris, "Playing the King: Tragicomic Differences in a King and No King and The Winter’s Tale."
Third prize:
Nadine Todd , "De Temps et d’espace de mythe et mémoire: La quête d’identitaire des protagonists dans Volkwagen Blues de Jacques Poulin."
UC Writing Award Winners, 2006
Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing:
First prize:
Josh Stewart, "The Fugitive Road Trip."
Second prize:
John Heggie, "In the Eye of the Storm."
Third prize:
Cari Mason, "A Westerner’s Exploration of the Art of Public Bathing."