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Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st:  Naomi Shmueli- “Mountain Mama”
2nd:  Jennifer Vernick ’18 –“After the Fourth Hospital Stay”
3rd:  Mahi Taban ’21 – “Letter to Khyber”
3rd:  Jane Thomas ’21- “Most Likely to Succeed”

Betty ’79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st:  Samuel Marlinga ’18 – “I”
2nd:  Henry Lynch ’18 – “Everyone Came But No One Was There”
3rd:  Jonathan Krauss ’20 – “Tiny Fish”
Honorable Mention: Mal Sklar ’18 – “Do Roombas Dream of Electric Sheep?”

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st:  Toni Armstrong ’19 – “When”
2nd:  Shawn McGarry ’19 – “Act 1, Scene 2 (Dan and Beatrice. . . )”
3rd:  Lukas Pomerville ’21 – “Bastille Cafė”

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

1st:  Emily Hawkins ’21 – “Romanticizing Middle-Class Ideals in Victorian Novels”
2nd:  Mahi Taban ‘21 – “Issues of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Foreignness in 19th Century British Literature: How the Gothic Was Used as a Disguise for Racial Commentary”

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st:  Cassidy To’17 –“I AM”
2nd: Maria Connors ’20 – “Tidal Eyes”
3rd:  Jessica Hoops ’18 – “Revelation”
3rd:  Genevieve Mahoney ’17 –“The Cat Called Kitty”

Betty ’79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st:  Chukwuma Egbuzie ’19 – “9DIGITS”
2nd:  Rachel Lloyd ’20 – “Click!”
3rd:  Davina Tomlin ’20 – “Cassandra”

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st:  Laura Barker ’17 – “2016”
2nd:  Toni Armstrong ’19 – “Forgetting Lee Grant”
3rd:  Chloe Anderson ’17 – “Hangover”
3rd:  Emily Denny ’17 – “The Filthy People”

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

1st:  Nadia Friedler ’17 – ” Sympathy, Imagination, Sight: Trauma and Othering within Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
2nd:  Logan Manchester ’19 – “The ‘Other’ on the Island and in the Attic”

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st:  Sarah Wells ’17 – “Dissipate”
2nd:  Jssica Hoopes ’18 – “Depression”
3rd:  Mal Sklar ’18 – “Sandmen”

Betty ’79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st:  Thomas Rhalter ’18 – “The Monarch”
2nd:  Emily Denny ’17 – “Mutually Assured Destruction”
3rd:  Sarah Wells ’17 – “Day One”

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st:  Emily Denny ’17 – “The Lavenders”
2nd:  Sarah Wells ’17 – “Step One”
3rd:  Chloe Anderson ’17 – “Inked”

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st:  Jessica Hoops, ’18 – “Ash Wednesday”
2nd:  Nicholas Porcella, ’15 – “Port. Man. Teau.”
3rd:  Cara Yacino, ’15 – “These are Dark Times for Robots”

Betty ’79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st:  Madhubanti Anashua, ’18 – “Mother”
2nd:  Laura Barker, ’17 – “Death’s Morning Routine”
3rd:  Sarah Wells, ’17 – “The Observer”

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st:  Margaret French, ’15 – “Garden Party”
2nd:  Laura Barker, ’17 – “Move On / Slow Down”
3rd:  Chloe Anderson, ’17 – “Reality Check”

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

1st: Aubrey Haskell, ’16 – “The Threat of the ‘Unsex’d’ Female as Seen Through Eighteenth Century British Literature”
2nd: Mitchell Perry, ’15 – “The ‘Happy Accident’ as an Indicator of Agency in Scott’s Millenium Hall”

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st:  Nick Porcella, ’15 – “Less Than a Year”
2nd:  Sharon Broadway, ’14 – “The Elephant Graveyard”
3rd:  Ava Molnar, ’14 – “Father Moon You Have Made Me”

Betty ’79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st:  Emma Pierson, ’14 –“Lost and Found”
2nd:  Laura Barker, ’17 – “Seven Deadly”
3rd:  Sarah Wells, ’17 – “A Merciful Fog”

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st:  Lillian Schley, ’15 – “Don’t Leave Me Hanging”
2nd:  Jordan Formichelli, ’14 – “Sanity (Love Songs from her Asylum)”
3rd:  Ava Molnar, ’14 – “Seedlings”

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

1st: James Tyler, ‘ 14 – “Tales of Other Times: Maria Edgeworth and the Anglo-Irish Novel”

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st:  Sara Lieto, ’15 – “Everything I Inherited, but Would Like to Burn”
2nd:  Apollonia Roman, ’14 – “Green Asphodels”
3rd:  Anthony Saracino, ’14 – “An Ordinary Night”

Betty ’79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st:  Joel Helander, ’15 – “Still Dreaming”
2nd:  Alexandra Tennant, ’13 – “Provenance”
3rd:  Julia Geaney-Moore, ’15 – “A Story of an Unlikely Love”
Honorable Mention:  Stephanie Aldrich, ’13 – “Holding Back”

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st:  Alex Kump, ’13 – “Porch”
2nd:  Alexandra Tennant, ’13 – “The Drought”
3rd:  Ava Molnar, ’14 – “Three Brained Woman”

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

1st:  Allison Lanes, ’13 –“Ladies Lusting for the Conservative:  Enhancing Conservative Didacticism through Morals and Marketing in Samuel Richardson’ Pamela and E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey.”
2nd:  Adam L. Kelley, ’13 –“Humanity Just For Men:  Lockean Linguistic Barriers for Feminism in Defoe’s Roxana.”

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st:  Eric Devenney, ’13 – “Love is a Body Farm”
2nd:  Alana Osborn-Lief, ’12 – “Spill”
3rd:  Ava Molnar, ’14 – “When Was I a Woman”
3rd:  Nicholas J. Porcella, ’15 – “White Noise”

Betty ’79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st:  Vipul Shah, ’13 – “Mustard Days”
2nd:  Mike Steigman, ’14 – “Branch”
3rd:  Lauren Cyr, ’14 – “On Having Tea with the Mad Hatter”

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st:  Alex Kump, ’13 – “Jet Boy Jet Girl”
2nd:  Ava Molnar, ’14 – “Living Through”
3rd:  Alexandra Tennant, ’13 – “Apology Play”
Honorable Mention:  Michelle Houle, ’13 – “The Greatest Bible Story Ever Told”

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

1st:  Tegan Young, ’12 – “‘Reader, forgive me for telling the plain truth’:  Narrative Theory in Jane Eyre.”
2nd:  Natalie Beale – “The Fainting Woman contrasted with Moral Illness in Mansfield Park and Bleak House.”
3rd:  Lisa Johnson, ’12 – “The Duty of Friendship in Charlotte Temple.”

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st: Gwen Walsh, ’11— “Ode to Endometriosis”
2nd: Sasha Katechis, ’17—”As the Sun”
3rd: Johanna Rothenberg, ’11—”At Night I Dream of Raisins and Almonds”

Betty ’79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st: Chanchala Gunewardena, ’11—”Lakshmi: Narratives of a female suicide bomber”
2nd: Sean Minahan, ’12—”Driftwood”
3rd: Charlotte Turner, ’14—”The Changeling Child”

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st: Natasha Ochshorn, ’11—”Halfway to Ypsilanti”
2nd: Alex Kump, ’13—”[Catherine (The Great) Dictionary Girl]”
3rd: Sean Morrow, ’11—”Behold the Man”
3rd: Alexandra Tennant, ’13—”Absolution”

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

1st: Jen Cantin, ’11—”A Disclaimer on the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Class Conundrum”

2nd: Lauren Onifer, ’11—”Collins’ Deconstruction of Physiognomy in ‘The Moonshine’”

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st: Daniel McDonald, ’10— “New York Haiku”
2nd: Elizabeth Decasse, ’11— “Neurovan”
3rd: Emma Siemasko, ’10— “Endings”

Betty ’79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st: Charlotte McGrew, ’10— “Ravenna”
2nd: Matthew Furman, ’13— “A Drink”
3rd: Natasha Ochshorn, ’11—  “That Brooklyn Bullshit”

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st: Natasha Ochshorn, ’11—  “Pluto”
2nd: Maxie Kalish, ’11—  “Kibitz and Kissing”

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st: James Kobialka ’10:”Ninety Six Feet of Zen’”
2nd: Naomi Cher, ’09:”Beomoose”
3rd: Rebecca Good, ’09:”How to Dodge Bullets” & Amital (Tali) Sachs, ’09: “The Tin Soldier Stands This Way”

Betty ’79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st: Danielle Coles, ’09:”Genesis, Inc.”
2nd: Janna King, ’09:”On the Wire”
3rd: Linnie Bendor-Grynbaum, ’09: “Eighty-Six”

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st: Sean Morrow, ’11:”You, Me and the Cake”

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

1st: Fana Hickinson, ’10: “The Young Lead the Old: The Construction of the Ideal Citizen in Children’s Abolitionist Literature”