NEW YORK ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
WRITING AWARDS CEREMONY
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023
Aniello Bianco Room
12:00-2:00 pm (in-person only)
Conducted by Writing Awards Director Eugene Richie
Welcome
Dr. Sarah Blackwood, English Department Chair
Congratulations
Dr. Tresmaine Grimes, Dean of Dyson College
Willis, Owens, Gill, Cannon, and Rose Writing Awards,
and the Academy of American Poets Prize
The Sarah Willis, Billie and Curtis Owens, Richard Gill, Gerard Cannon, and James Rose memorial funds, named in honor of distinguished English Department faculty, and the David A. Bickimer-Promise of Learnings / Academy of American Poets Prize
JOURNALISM
Gia Sparacino, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Adjuncts: The Unappreciated, Underpaid, Unseen Academics of American Universities,” “Lesbian Legend Elaine Romagnoli Passes, Queer Spaces Die with Her,” and “Man of The Met: A Starving Artist's Story Told”
Mandi Karpo, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “University Hosts Historical 2022 NYS Gubernatorial Debate” and “Remembering DJ Henry at Third Annual Social Justice Week”
Amy Moore, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “What Does It Take to Be a Music Journalist with Kim Taylor Bennett”
Emma Sylvia, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: “The Cult of J.K. Rowling and the Alt-Right Pipeline”
Carter Haskins, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Jeanne Dielman and Visual Pleasure”
Lindsey Bourque, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “I Am Not a Witch: Discussing Witchcraft, Misogyny, and Feminism”
Kathleen Caraway, Sarah Willis Award, 3rd Place: “Why the Radio in Cleo 5 to 7?”
LITERARY CRITICISM
Cailyn Mickelsen, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “Time in the Margin: Queer Temporality in Mrs. Dalloway”
Megan Tometich, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Laughter and Oppression in Good Morning, Midnight and Quicksand”
Cayla Quinn, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Hotspur and the Death of Honor: Exchanging Masculinities in 1 Henry IV”
Elena Sierzchula, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: “Female Rage and Self-Hatred in Modernist Texts”
Janet Gerges, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, Honorable Mention: “Let’s Talk Grammar”
Jaeden Pinder, James Rose Award, Honorable Mention: “‘I’ve Never Heard of these People’: Colonizing the Colonizer’s Text in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem”
Amanda Zinni, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: “‘He’s the Victim of His Own Damn Thing’: Connections Between Hostel (2005) and Fairview”
POETRY
Jack Niemczyk, David A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings /Academy of American Poets Prize: “A Successive Issue,” “The Moon’s Phase,” and “Family Meal Pumpkin Apple Bread”
Detroit Hamell, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “baby,” “1:24am at Heaven’s Bar,” “Frankie Destroyed These Shoes, I Guess,” “Pepper, the Mannequin” and “Ice Cream Man”
Nina Hook, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 1st Place: “Southwest Storm,” “Playing with Mother,” “Varenna, Italy,” “The South-Side Dock,” and “Yellow Dress”
Megan Tometich, James Rose Award, 2nd Place: “Men I Own (Or, In Brief: Boxers)” and “Riding the Bus”
Laura Gooch, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “the average number of pieces in a broken heart,” “fat never felt pretty,” “blasphemy,” and “EXISTENCE”
Felicity Flores-Drew, Sarah Willis Award, 3rd Place: “Billie Holiday Sings a Church Hymn,” “Fourth Wish,” “Cure,” “My Dear Sabrina,” and “The Cowardly Lions, My Girl, and Me”
Emily Shafer, Sarah Willis Award, 3rd Place: “The Armor Rouse,” “August,” “cigarette,” and “sunset”
Zoe Poulis, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “California Poem,” “a different kind of cold,” “To having your first kiss during an episode of Dance Moms,” “Girlhood,” and “Pretty tears”
Katie Romanyshyn, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “To cigarettes,” “dysmorphic,” “have a good one,” “'sweet' potatoes,” and “ode to showers”
COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
Scripts
Sam Davis, Richard Gill Award, 1st Place: Rabbit Ears
Sarah Kincaid, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: Amortentia
Kaylyn Wan Ting Yew, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: Birthday Trip
Ashvin Kapoor, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: The Ashvin Show Man (The Graphic Novel)
Jonathan Thomas Ovadia, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: Juracán
Essays
Megan Tometich, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “Are You My Mother? Analysis”
Olivia Fisher, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Tomie: An Analysis”
Leilani Monserrate, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: “An Exploration of Race and Racism through Metaphor in American Born Chinese”
Laura Gooch, James Rose Award, Honorable Mention: “Fun Home Close Reading,” “Graphic Novels Are Literature, But This Book Is Not,” and “American Born Chinese Close Reading”
PLAYWRITING
Cambria Kylinn Martin, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: Stranger Grandfather, Stranger Granddaughter
Kailey Liddell, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: Last Supper and Fat Dog It, Joan
Charlie Razhanskiy, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: Beyond the Curtain
Maddie McCool, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: Where the Door Leads
Veronika Orlovska, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: Off the Rocker
WRITING FOR FILM AND TELEVISION
Feature-Length Screenplays
Mary Justin, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: The Great Believers
Lexie Tierney, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: Fangirls
Eric Ducos, Richard Gill Award, 3rd Place: Life’s a Bitch
Short Film Scripts
Oliver Schofield, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: I Have the Key to the Incinerator
Lauren Vogel, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: American Girls
Joshua Rabin, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: Shoulda Woulda Coulda
Television Scripts
Jalyn Horhn, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “My Mind's a Burning Hell,” Yellowjackets spec episode
Charlie Razhanskiy, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “Reunion, Amongst Other Things,” Our Flag Means Death spec episode
Ethan McKellar, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” Sweet Suburban Summers pilot script
NONFICTION
Sarah Kincaid, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Smoker’s Heart”
Gabriella Herrera, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 2nd Place: “Profile at Essex Street, Facing the Wall”
Riley Natalova, James Rose Award, 3rd Place: “7th & A” (Excerpt)
Mary Justin, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “A Letter to My Sister”
Kendall Alexis Carter, Sarah Willis Award, Honorable Mention: “Like the Light”
FICTION
Mary Justin, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 1st Place: “My Body of Water,” “My Boy and My Mother,” and “The Stripes I Gave My Mother”
Zoe Schuman, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “A Place to Put the Pieces Down”
Sylvie Morris, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Levaya”
Alexandra Muniz, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “The Creature”
Laura Gooch, Richard Gill Award, 3rd Place: “Portrait of a Family”
Nicolina Barone, Richard Gill Award, 3rd Place: Excerpt from A Starless Sky
Darby O’Brien, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “A Crash Course in Flying”
Mark Vaksman, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Tunnel Vision”
LINGUISTIC AND RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Megan Tometich, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “I Amn’t So Sure about Language Anymore: A Literacy Narrative”
Faith Gregory, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “The Talk of the Harries: Language Used in Harry Styles Stan Twitter”
Ethaniel Curcio, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: “From Page to Stage: Examining Literacy”
Kiona Morales, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Tok Pisin Case Study”
Elena Sierzchula, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Development and Appropriation of Slang”
Kelly Herbert Writing Award
Presented by LaDarius DuPree, Associate Director of the LGBTQA+ Center
Felicity Flores-Drew, “Sweetest Thing”
Celebration and Readings of Aphros 63 (2023)
New Aphros Issue and Readers Introduced by Editors Kathleen Caraway and Cailyn Mickelsen
Kate LaPierre “January Nights” and “girlhood”
Cailyn Mickelsen “SLOW DRIP”
Kathleen Caraway “Yi Cuisine”
APHROS 63 Readers’ Bios
Kate LaPierre is originally from Plymouth, New Hampshire. She is a Communications major and a Creative Writing minor. This is her junior year at Pace. She enjoys writing and reading poetry.
Cailyn Mickelsen, English major, loves to write essays that are far too long and poems that are far too vague. Favorite things include: egg and cheese on a sesame bagel, wacky earrings, and oversized band t-shirts.
Kathleen Caraway is a senior majoring in English Language and Literature (with an emphasis in Creative Writing) and Film and Screen Studies. She loves writing out her feelings, Mamma Mia, and rainy weather.
EDITORS
Kathleen Caraway
Emily Shafer
Cailyn Mickelsen
Frankie Tometich
EDITORIAL STAFF
Amanda Zinni
Ellie Sierzchula
Ashley Geiser
ADVISOR
