2024 Award Winners
The Annabelle Bonner Medal
for short fiction that demonstrates technical skill and promise in the art of the short story or narrative
Josephine Wu, COL 2024
“Shark Body”
The Lynch Pendergast Medal
for the best essay on any topic in the discipline of English (no longer than 5,000 words)
Maya Kominsky, COL 2024
“‘History Repeating’ of Continuing? The Vampire Diaries Confronts the Old South”
The Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize
for the most outstanding poem or group of poems
Clayton Kincade, SFS 2025
“Other Boys: A Collection”
The Quicksall Medal
for the best essay on Shakespearean drama
Not Awarded in 2024
The Bernard M. Wagner Medal
for excellence in writing in any genre except drama (fiction, nonfiction and poetry)
Genevieve Jobson, COL 2026
“Sunday”