2013 Award Winners

The Annabelle Bonner Medal

for short fiction that demonstrates technical skill and promise in the art of the short story or narrative

Jacquelyn Stolos, COL 2013

“The Capital of the World”


The Lynch Pendergast Medal

for the best essay on any topic in the discipline of English (no longer than 5,000 words)

Stephanie LaGumina, COL 2013

“Adrienne Rich’s Mapping the History of the Dispossessed in ‘An Atlas of the Difficult World'”


The Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize

for the most outstanding poem or group of poems

Terri Merz, SCS 2016

“The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946”

Katherine Bellamy Mitchell, COL 2015

“Soft Bodies”


The Quicksall Medal

for the best essay on Shakespearean drama

Olivia Morrissey, COL 2013

“‘Some Nine Moons Wasted’: The Role of the Absent Mother in Othello”


The Bernard M. Wagner Medal

for excellence in writing in any genre except drama (fiction, nonfiction and poetry)

William Basham, COL 2014

“Rickshaw Summer”