Alpha Chi Omicron Writing Awards

Leadership team from left to right: Nora Leach, Teresa Kamen, Jackie Kobeski, and Chaise Jones

2023 Winners

Essay in Texts and Contexts

WINNER: “Getting to the Nut of Charles W. Chesnutt’s Characters” by Miranda Babiuk Martinez

Essay in Upper-Level ENGL Courses

WINNER: “Water Flooding Giovanni’s Room” by Sophie Maselli
HONORABLE MENTION: “The Feminine Monstrosity: Puberty, Sexuality, and Very Scary Girls” by Amara Overmeyer 

Poetry

WINNER: “Innocent” by Keiran Elden
HONORABLE MENTION: “My bark remains” by Sophie Maselli

Creative Prose

WINNER: “Farmers Die Last” by Aidan Ilnitzki
HONORABLE MENTION: “Gone” by Keiran Elden