Celebrating the 2025 Writing Awards Finalists

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Professor Phil Sandick, Director of the Creative Writing Minor, and the Department of English hosted the finalists selected for the 2025 Writing Awards on April 30. Our judges were impressed with the number of submissions, and we’d like to thank everyone who submitted their work!

2025 Creative Writing Award Finalists

Bernard M. Wagner Medal 

Winner: Barrett Ahn for “Umma”

Runner Up: Jack Markowitz for “The Question of Question Marks//Love Affair”

Annabelle Bonner Medal 

Winner: Melinda Reed for “The Lost Art of Dying”

Second Place: Amelia Shotwell for “Forget Me Not”

Honorable Mention: Elyza Bruce for “Another Summer at Peacham Pond”

Lynch Pendergast Medal

Winner: Victoria Chen for “Risk Manifested”

Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize 

Winner:  Evelyn Blanchette for “They Tore our House Down With The Lights On”

Runner Up: Hans Yang for “My Father Again”

Quicksall Medal

Winner: Amelia Shotwell for “Witchcraft in The Winter’s Tale: Female Agency and Male Insecurity”