PACE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH
WRITING AWARDS CEREMONY
WRITING AWARDS CEREMONY
MONDAY, MAY 2,
2016
Willis, Owens, Gill, Cannon, and Rose
Creative Writing, Literary or Film Criticism, and Journalism 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,
established by John Ashbery and David Kermani
FICTION
Juliet Mueller, Sarah Willis
Award, 1st Place: “The Space Between”
Haley Boden, Richard Gill
Award, 1st Place: “Flower Language”
Sabrina Boyle, Sarah Willis
Award, 2nd Place: “Esther”
Sabeen Aziz, Richard Gill
Award, 2nd Place: “Red Lilacs”
Rachael Pepper, Gerard Cannon
Award, 3rd
Place: “That Guy”
Nessie Nankivell, Billie and
Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “Sometimes These Things Heal on Their Own”
Alisha Thompson, Gerard
Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Keep Going”
Daniel Sherwood, Billie and
Curtis Owens Award, Honorable Mention: “My Love Story”
SCREENWRITING
Trevor Brenden, Richard Gill
Award, 1st Place: Elliot
Joe Reault, Gerard Cannon
Award, 2nd Place: Bromos, Season 1,
Episode 2: “Strip Club”
Joshua Kennedy, Sarah Willis
Award, 3rd Place: Dorm of the Damned
JOURNALISM
Irene Schultz, Sarah Willis
Award, 1st Place: “Underneath a
Superhero’s Cape” and “Tapping into the Mystery
of 41 Park Row Water”
Sarah Hartzell, Richard Gill
Award, 2nd Place: “American Crime Story: The
People v. O.J. Simpson Review”
Melissa Persaud,
Sarah Willis Award, 3rd Place: “Cam Newton Can Dance However, the Hell He Wants”
Maximiliano Onofre, Billie
and Curtis Owens Award, Honorable Mention: “The Sexist Files”
PLAYWRITING
Harold Hodge, Jr., Sarah
Willis Award, 1st Place: Candyland
Messiah Hagood-Barnes, Richard
Gill Award, 2nd Place: Yelling through
the Yellow
Angelica Gorga, Gerard Cannon
Award, 3rd Place: Island of Souls
Kelsey Senteio, Sarah Willis
Award, Honorable Mention: Little Bear
Megan Millisky, Billie and
Curtis Owens Award, Honorable Mention: Where
You’re Meant to Be
CRITICAL
or CREATIVE NONFICTION
Marissa DeMarino, Richard
Gill Award, 1st Place: “Flashes of Him”
Kristen Bianco, Billie and
Curtis Owens Award, 2nd Place: “Worn Spines,” “What I Bring to Your House,”
and “Love Me Indigo”
Megan Millisky, Richard Gill
Award, 3rd Place: “Awakening” and “Imaginary Friends”
Irene Schultz, Gerard Cannon
Award, Honorable Mention: “MyPlate
Isn’t Really Yours,” “Going against the
Grain,” and “Drugs to Degrees”
Amber Elie-Pierre, Sarah Willis
Award, Honorable Mention: “Sleepless Nights,” “When the Garden Wilts,”
and “What We’ve Lost”
POETRY
Juliet Mueller, David A.
Bickimer—Promise of Learnings /Academy of American Poets Prize: “Thing Don’t
Always Lie Where They Fall,” “The New Contemporary,” “life beneath the window,” “Imagined
Origins of My Favorite Words,” “From the Notepad”
Tasha Gagnon, Richard Gill
Award, 1st Place: “Pantheon,” “Souvenir,” “Teeth,” “Grip,” and “Reasons to Have
Panic Attacks”
Jessica Jimenez, Sarah Willis
Award, 1st Place: “Things To Do around Lancaster,” “THE ERASER IN ROOM
2020,” “Fruit Medley,” “Piglet,” and “It’s So Black Out Tonight”
Chang (Harrison) Yang, Richard
Gill Award, 2nd Place: “North Face,” “They Were Playing Cellos,” “Mornings
in a Haunted House,” “7 Train to Long Island and 16 hours until Hong Kong,” and “Onion”
Waverly Bergwin, Sarah Willis
Award, 2nd Place: “Orange,”
“[Shirt],” “8 Men,” “Colder,” and “I Didn’t Wash
the Strawberries”
Jordan Rose Little, Billie
and Curtis Owens Award, 3rd Place: “Head of Broccoli,” “An Expert’s Guide to Mango
Eating,” “The Compost Bin,” “Yolk,” and “Lavender”
Kelsey O’Brien-Enders, Sarah
Willis Award, 3rd Place: “I Don’t Smoke,” “Blank White Space,” “Times Square,”
“My Coats Are More Memorable Now,” and “As I Go Crazy in the Kitchen”
Nicholas Krauss, James Rose
Award, Honorable Mention: “Last Words for Labetts,” “Some Things I've Seen,”
and “Herbsstag (Word Stache)”
Mollie Murtagh, Sarah Willis
Award, Honorable Mention: “Yellow,” “Deli across OTB,” “Aquarium,” and
“Seascape”
LITERARY or FILM CRITICISM
Annelise Nussbacher, Sarah
Willis Award, 1st Place: “André Bazin and the Development of Cinematic Realism”
Brooke Stoker, Richard Gill
Award, 1st Place: “Souvenirs: The Power of Representation in Relation to Memory”
Sabeen Aziz, Billie and Curtis Owens Award, 2nd Place: “Love,
Martyrdom, and Writing in The Countess of
Mountgomeries Urania: A Defense of Female Authorship”
Luke Widlund, Gerard Cannon
Award, 2nd Place: “Nervous as the Sea”
Giulianna Nasta,
Richard Gill Award, 3rd Place: “Jane Eyre:
Creating Connections through Costume”
Joseph Gonzalez, Sarah
Willis Award, 3rd Place: “The Liberty of Rage”
Amber Elie-Pierre, Billie
and Curtis Owens Award, Honorable Mention: “How to Enslave Black Men: Racial
Masculinity as Depicted by Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl”
Jordan Rose Little, Gerard
Cannon Award, Honorable Mention: “Production and Profit in Moby Dick”
Kelly Herbert Writing Award
Endowed by Ms. Julie Hanus and administered by the
Pace Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Asexual and Ally
(LGBTQA) & Social Justice Center
Annamaria Watson, “Purple Sage”
