NEW YORK ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
WRITING AWARDS CEREMONY
THURSDAY, April 25, 2024
Bianco Room, 15 Beekman St, 3rd FL
3:30-5:00 pm
Writing Awards Director Eugene Richie & Creative Writing English Major Jack Niemczyk
Welcome
Stephanie Hsu and Sid Ray, English Department Co-Chairs
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
Research
Cailyn Mickelsen, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 1st Place: “The 'Unman' in Twelfth Night” and “Bloody Henrys: Cyclical Christian Narrative in Henry IV, Part 1”
Molly Dunne, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Ancient Concepts in New Contexts: Mêtis as the Woman's Tool of Self-Empowerment in Medieval European Literature”
Griffin Tietje, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Troilus and Criseyde: From Pen to Print”
Cori Magsby, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Art History through Black Eyes: The Insertion of Black Culture into the United States Art World”
Chloe Stout, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Septimus, Clarissa, and Mermaids: Virginia Woolf’s Exploration of Gender Conformity in Mrs. Dalloway”
Textual Analysis and Engagement
Jack Niemczyk , Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 1st Place: “‘I Am a Foolish Fond Man’: King Lear and His Fool”; “Water: A Matter of Life and Death”; and “The Richness of Camp”
Lauren Kube, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Haunted by the Past: How Memory Ignites Itself in Mrs. Dalloway and Good Morning, Midnight”
Tamara Frieson, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “‘What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?’: Racial Existentialism in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” and “Corruption, Manipulation, and Deceit: The Failures of Capitalism and the Restorative Nature of Socialism in the Swindling Twentieth-Century American Society of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair”
Alissa Petrizzo, Gerard Cannon Award , Honorable Mention: “Food as Memory Practice in Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s Bangkok Wakes to Rain and Aminatta Forna’s Happiness”
Margaret Reilly, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Black Interiority and Its Creative Effects”
NONFICTION
Felicity Flores, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “A Tale of Two Americas”
Josh Ilano, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 2nd Place: “Screwhead”
Nathaniel Augustin, James Rose Award, 3rd Place: “The Most Disrespected Culture in America”
Lauren Vogel, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: “Green Apples”
Maria Mendoza, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: “All Is Fair in Love and War”
Riley Natalova, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Yellow Covers”
JOURNALISM
Gianna Sparacino, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “The Plight of Pay Inequalities Amongst Pace Adjuncts”
Tamara Frieson, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Why Is No One Talking About This?”
Riley Fell, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “Union Membership Is on the Rise for the First Time in Fifty Years: Here Is How Starbucks Turned Me Into a Labor Rights Activist at Seventeen Years Old”
Kayla Baldwin, Sarah Willis Award, Honorable Mention: “It’s Black History Month, and This Is How Pace Students Are Feeling”
Cailyn Mickelsen, Richard Gill Award, Honorable Mention: “The Earth Room’s Wild Frontier”
LINGUISTIC AND RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Taiya Curcio, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “Language Use in Relation to an Individual’s Perceived Gender Presentation”
Abigail Mutton, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “A Genre Analysis: Diary Studies of Second Language Acquisition”
Eleanor Nealon, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: “Get Rhetorical with Me”
Grace Jones, James Rose Award, Honorable Mention: “The Discrimination Against Natural Hair”
Griffin Tietje, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Navigating Behavioral Economics: An Analysis of Writing Styles and Disciplinary Norms”
COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
Scripts
Zoë Adams, Richard Gill Award, 1st Place: “En Passant”
Samuel Stein, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “It’s Been a Really Long Night”
Janet Gerges, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “Goodnight, Acorn”
Veronika Orlovska, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Zero”
Essays
Jayna Moskovitz, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Close Reading of Smile”
Alec Conwell, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Facing Internalized Racism in American Born Chinese”
PLAYWRITING
Maggie Dunn, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Girls Online”
Reid Ivanoff, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Houses”
Charlie Leo, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “La Tragedia de Danny Walker”
Alice Tinari, Sarah Willis Award, Honorable Mention: “Nosh Pit”
Ella Bernarduci, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “What To Do When Walking on Eggshells”
Veronika Orlovska, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Quai du Plaisir”
Dominic Miguel Smith , Richard Gill Award, 2nd Place: “The Shining and the Façade of the American Dream”
Mia Lastrella, Sarah Willis Award, 3rd Place: “The ‘Cinematic Pleasure’ of Bones and All”
Kate Waldman, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “The Perception of Carol”
WRITING FOR FILM AND TELEVISION
Feature-Length Screenplays
Sophia Traub, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Breadcrumbs”
Lexie Tierney, Sarah Willis Award, 2nd Place: “All Virgins Must Die: Involuntarily Celibate”
Joshua Rabin, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: “Lost in the Game”
Television Scripts
Kat Hine, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “The Other Two: ‘Pat Does a Drag Storytime’”
Charlie Razhanskiy, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 2nd Place: “An Angel and a Demon Walk Into an Apartment”
FICTION
Sarah Kincaid, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “A Mother’s Love,” “Holier”
Sylvie Morris, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “UnHinged Reviews”
Alicia Bennett, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “All in a Night’s Work” and “War Paint”
Ava Scott, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Our Divine War”
Grace Jones, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “To Be Young Without the Innocence of a Child”
Zoë Adams, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: “Good Girls in Here Daddy’s Truck”
Taiya Curcio, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, Honorable Mention: “An Obscure Internet Game”
Grace Kerner, Gerard Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “God’s Plan”
POETRY
Emily Shafer, David A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings /Academy of American Poets Prize: “Keys,” “And congratulations!,” “swing time,” “here,” and “splice”
Cailyn Mickelsen, Sarah Willis Award, 1st Place: “polycardial,” “California Strawberries,” “Notebook, Covered,” “WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE POET THAT YOU WOULDN’T SAY IN PLEASANT COMPANY,” and “familiaritatis obscenae; me and thee”
Reid Ivanoff, Gerard Cannon Award, 1st Place: “Eco-Brutalism,” “Bookshelf,” “I Need to Shower Tonight,” and “Us”
Angelina Boris, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “Hey, Never Change.,” “Remembering,” “A Proposed Escape from the Daily Reaper,” “For Fear,” and “Ode to Fire Safety”
Abby Orkin, Gerard Cannon Award, 2nd Place: “’pieces of the globe are now a piece of me,” “a painting of a cat i saw in Amsterdam,” “rotten,” “Pieces of my childhood bedroom,” and “Ode to the Hour”
Josh Ilano, Sarah Willis Award, 3rd Place: “The Weed Is Not the Flower”
Felicity Flores, Gerard Cannon Award, 3rd Place: “Loving vs Smithtown,” “Honey in the Hive,” “My Friend Dionysus,” “How To Care for Your Ailing Poet,” and “Coney Island Carnies”
Jack Niemczyk , James Rose Award, Honorable Mention: “It Could Be Worse,” “A True Account of Talking to a Liza Minnelli Record,” “Sonnet 2,” and “New York Lessons: Collection of Shorts”
Lauren Vogel, James Rose Award, Honorable Mention: “Wasp Season,” “Missed Flight,” “Turkeys,” and “Seashells”
2024 Kelly Herbert Writing Award
Presented by LaDarius DuPree, Associate Director of the LGBTQA Center
Eli Butler, “Fishful Thinking”
2024 Excellence in Dramaturgy Award
Presented by English Department Co-Chairs Stephanie Hsu and Sid Ray
Bella Levin
2024 English Faculty Excellence in Teaching Awards
Presented by English Department Co-Chairs Stephanie Hsu and Sid Ray
The Gerard Cannon Excellence in Teaching Award: Sharifa Hampton
The Tom Henthorne Excellence in Teaching Award: Erica Johnson
Congratulations to Film and Screen Studies and English Major Graduates and Award Winners
2024 Distinguished Graduating Fellow Award
Presented at the Dyson Society of Fellows Initiation Ceremony, Tuesday, April 16
Felicity Flores
2024 Dyson College/English Department Awards
To Be Presented at Dyson College Awards Ceremony
Scholastic Excellence Award (2024): Nina Hook
Community Service Award: (2024) Jack Niemczyk
Creative Excellence Award (2024): Felicity Flores
Celebration and Readings of Aphros 64 (2024)
New Aphros Issue and Readers Introduced by Editors Cailyn Mickelsen and Ashley Geiser
Annie Driscoll: "Eulogy from a Little Girl"
Sarah Kincaid: "Untitled"
Emma Jacobson: "Patina"
APHROS 64 Readers’ Bios
Annie Driscoll is an applied psychology and human relations major with a minor in creative writing. She enjoys writing short stories and poetry in her free time. Annie is extremely excited to be a part of the 64th issue of Aphros this year!
Sarah Kincaid is a Junior at Pace University, majoring in English Literature with a concentration in Creative Writing. She writes best when the stars are visible, and hopes to become the next generation's John Green.
Emma Rose Jacobson is a synthpop enthusiast, club rat, and obsessive reader and diarist currently residing in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Emma writes to identify, appreciate, and expose the intersections between intimacy, detachment, desire, virtue, and vice.
EDITORS
Ashley Geiser and Cailyn Mickelsen
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Brooklyn Bynum and Amanda Zinni
EDITORIAL STAFF
Savannah Ford, Zain Mozai, Sam Shmia, and
Zora Thomas
ADVISOR
Charles North
English Department Co-Chairs Stephanie Hsu and Sid Ray
Film and Screen Studies Department Chair Luke Cantarella
Writing Awards Director Eugene Richie
Willis, Owens, Gill, Cannon, and Rose Writing Awards,
and the Academy of American Poets Prize Award Committees
POETRY
Charles North, Chair
Tom Breidenbach
Vita Jimenez
Eugene Richie
LITERARY CRITICISM
Erica Johnson, Chair
Stephanie Hsu
Sid Ray
Sarah Blackwood
COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS & ESSAYS
Paul Levitz, Chair
Ioana Atanassova
Kelley Allen
Rosanne Wasserman
NONFICTION
Kuhu Joshi, Co-Chair
Andrew Sciallo, Co-Chair
PLAYWRITING
Beto O’Byrne, Chair
Angelica Gorga
Sheri Wilner
JOURNALISM
Kelley Kreitz, Chair
Andrew Sciallo
Anna Sejuelas
FICTION
Erica Fabri, Chair
Linda Chase
LINGUISTIC AND RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
Phil Choong, Chair
Meaghan Brewer
Kristen di Gennaro
Tran Tran-Tision
Asia Letlow
WRITING FOR FILM & TELEVISION
Jon Danziger, Chair
Molly Rydzel
Becky Scott
WRITING ON FILM
Nzingha Kendall, Co-Chair Jennifer Pranolo, Co-Chair
Special thanks to the English and Film and Screen Studies Department Program Coordinator, Betsy Tomala, for her assistance with award funds, contest manuscripts, certificates, and refreshments; to Rosanne Wasserman for her work on the ceremony committee, preparing manuscripts and the ceremony program; to Lindsay Paul and the Pace Press, for publicizing the awards competition and ceremony; to the creative staff of the Dyson College Communications Office (Angela Nally, Amanda Ghysel, and Erin Hager) for flyers and event publicity in Pace publications and on the English Department and Dyson Websites and social media; and to Winston Vera and Derrick Jones in Document Services for their dedicated efforts in making award certificates and copies of manuscripts and publicity flyers.
