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Spring 2008 Writing Contest Winners
Burleson Writing Contest
Literary Criticism
1st place: Daniel Dawer, English and Plan II, for “Financial and Marital Exchange Systems in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night”
2nd place: Charlotte Nunes, Doctoral candidate in English, for “In the Name of the Father and Breakfast on Pluto: State-Perpetuated Violence and Collective Critical Consciousness”
Essay
1st place: Scott Brownlee, English and LAH, for “Something Elemental: Searching for Stable Meaning in DeLillo’s White Noise”
2nd place: Charlotte Barry, History, Biology and LAH, for “Oh, Sweet God O’ Mine”
Graduate Fiction
1st place: Jaime deBlanc-Knowles, MA candidate in Creative Writing, for “Gone”
2nd place: Sebastian Langdell, MA candidate in Creative Writing, for “The Gods of Herein County”
3rd place: Cara Zimmer, MA candidate in Creative Writing, for “Three Windows”
Graduate Poetry
1st place: Mary Sharpe, MA candidate in Creative Writing, for “Lorca, 1935”
2nd place: Dafydd Wood, Doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature, for “Bone-Cross”
3rd place: Miriam Greenberg, MFA candidate in Writing, Michener Center, for “Brazilian Telephone”
Undergraduate Fiction
1st place: Travis Klunick, English and LAH, for “Yeguas y Caballos”
2nd place: Marcie Alexandar, English and Biology, for “Itch”
3rd place: Aboubacar N'Diaye, English and Government, for “The Fire”
Undergraduate Poetry
1st place: Christopher Perez, English, for “What You Leave”
2nd place: Sean O’Connor, English and LAH, for “On the Painting of Longhorns”
3rd place: Denise Rodriguez, English, for “More Than a Poem”
Fania Kruger Fellowship in Writing
1st place: Sebastian Langdell, MA candidate in Creative Writing, for “To Jean Elizabeth Smith and Her Countless Enemies”
2nd place: Travis Klunick, English and LAH, for “Yeguas and Caballos
3rd place: Elizabeth Moskowitz, English and Journalism, for “Everyday News”
3rd place: Dan Moreau, MA candidate in Creative Writing, for “Raimundo”