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”