2010 Writing Award Winners

Barbara Winder Award for Best Piece of Creative Writing: Catherine Jacocks for “Cocaine and Space Dust”

Ray Baubles Award for Outstanding Non trad: Maureen Mohammed

John Tamas Scholarship for soph or junior for Outstanding Student in Creative Writing: Mike Ripollone

Distinction for Senior Portfolio:
December 2009 Grads: Phil Bowles, Jennifer Burks
May 2010 Grads: Maureen E. Mohammed, Dane C. Noeding, Lauren A. Iacovacci, Kevin McNulty-DeNunzio, Thomas Jacob, David T. Strout

Associated Writing Program “Intro Awards” (fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction), campus winners:
Poetry—Margaret Bail for “Strawberry Blues”
Fiction—Birte Selvaraj for “One Night Stand”
Nonfiction—Michelle Walsh for “Loss”

Louise Kolb Award for Excellence in Writing Tutorial: Christopher K. Farrell and David T. Strout

Brackman Scholarship: Josh Durkin

Ruth R. Dawson Scholarship for Writing About Science: Hellen Mrotek

Baker Communications Group Scholarship: Laura Burgio

Robert Kelleher Scholarship: Keith Roland

Outstanding Spot News Award: Josh Durkin for “Justice Department Will Look for a New Venue to Hold 9/11 Trial,” The Public Record—http://pubrecord.org, January 29, 2010

Outstanding Feature/Lifestyle Award: John Farrell for “They Crossed the U.S. in a Model T, Danbury News-Times, March 8, 2010

Distinguished Undergraduate Thesis in Writing: Jake Kara for introductory chapters to his novel, The Fairest of the Seasons and Phil Bowles for A World Away: Inside the World of Warcraft

2009 Outstanding MA Writing Option Thesis (graduate): Teresa Sutton for Chimera, a collection of poems.

Kristina Zupnyk won the English Department Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year for 2009-2010.

2009 Writing Award Winners

Barbara Winder Award--Jake E. Kara

The Arnold C. Brackman Memorial Scholarship--Thomas Jacob

CSU Fiction Prize--Winner, Kevin McNulty-DeNunzio; Honorable Mention, Robert Ferris

CSU Essay, Honorable Mention--Martha Riedel

Outstanding Features/Lifestyle Story Award--Kristen E. Andreoli for "Check out arts magazine Black and White," Danbury News Times, January 2009

Outstanding Commentary Award--Max L. Wittstein and Craig J. Donofrio for Echo editorial "Anonymous Swastikas Are for Cowards"

Outstanding Spot News Award--Danielle N. Stone for "Brookfield man walks away from 'Millionaire' with $4,000," March 2008

Ray Baubles Award--Suzanne D. Monroe

Louise Kolb Award for  Excellence in Tutoring--Asucena Gonzalez and Peter J. Moretti

John Tamas Memorial Scholarship--Joshua L. Durkin

The R. Nolan Scholarship for student who intends to be a teacher of writing--

Distinction for Writing Portfolio--

Kristen Andreoli

Joseph Benedict

Allison Fabrizio

Ryan T. Guertin

Grant E. McGuire

Thomas Perkins

John Ready

Rebecca Richards

Jacqueline D. Scanlon

Nancy Tanner

Julie Warner

2008 Writing Award Winners

Barbara Winder Award--Thomas Monckton for "The Cursed Sand"

The Arnold C. Brackman Memorial Scholarship--Matthew Renfer and Max L. Wittstein

Outstanding Feature/Lifestyles Story--Danielle Stone for "Dipping into Fond Memories"

Outstanding Spot News Award--Matt Renfer for "BSA Debt May Hold Back Club"

Outstanding Commentary Award--Max L. Wittstein for "Response to Chris Powell's Editorial in the New London Day"

Ray Baubles Award--Mark Ferry

Louise Kolb Award for  Excellence in Tutoring--Maria Merino-Schweitzer and Heather Gunnoud

The Senior Writing Award --Roxana Chirvase

The R. Nolan Scholarship for student who intends to be a teacher of writing--Frank Flynn

WCSU students who won CSU Writing Awards,
winners published in Connecticut Review Spring 2008 issue:

Fiction winner--Jake Edward Kara
Fiction Honorable Mention--Lenny Levine
Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize--Erik K. Mortenson

Leo Connellan Poetry Prize--Don Lowe, Honorable Mention

WestConn AWP Intro Award Winners

Fiction: Suzanne Monroe (undergrad)
Creative Nonfiction: Kateri Kosek (MFA)
Poetry: Erik Mortenson (MFA), Mary Ann Campbell (MFA), and Jennifer Salkin (MA)

Distinction for Writing Portfolio--

Zakariaz Gerhard
Michael W. Schwartz
Jared R. Sturges
Matthew R. Renfer