Special Programs
Congratulations to our 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”
We hold contests in fiction, poetry, personal essay, and literary criticism each spring and fall semester. In addition, each spring we award the Fania Kruger Fellowship. We award monetary prizes in all categories. Please see the entry forms for detailed contest information.
Please check back next fall for updated entry forms. You can view the previous semester's entry forms below.
The entry forms below are in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat Reader needed to view and print pdf files.) and must be downloaded and printed.
Spring 2008 Burleson Writing Contest Entry Form (PDF, 60K)
Spring 2008 Fania Kruger Fellowship in Writing Entry Form (PDF, 56K)