Winners: Spring 2013
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| PRESTON GURNEY PRIZE | Awarded to an undergraduate senior for the best essay of 5,000 words or less on any topic in literary criticism (fiction). | Maggie Millner Kimberly Clifton |
1st Prize $3,500 2nd Prize $1,800 |
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| PRESTON GURNEY PRIZE | Awarded to an undergraduate senior for the best essay of 5,000 words or less on any topic in literary criticism (poetry). | Maggie Millner Christopher Janigian |
1st Prize $3,500 2nd Prize $1,800 |
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| PRESTON GURNEY PRIZE | Awarded to an undergraduate senior for the best essay of 5,000 words or less on any topic in cultural criticism. | Sarah Brandon Daniel Sherrell |
1st Prize $3,500 2nd Prize $1,800 |
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| THE BETSY AMANDA LEHMAN ’77 MEMORIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM |
Awarded to a Brown senior studying journalism or practicing as a journalist for a campus or professional publication who has demonstrated outstanding accomplishments and intellectual ability. The portfolio may include selected publications and/or academic work in the study of journalism, including essays written for Brown classes and senior theses. |
Diana Dwyer |
1st Prize $800 |
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| THE CASEY SHEARER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CREATIVE NONFICTION | Awarded to a full-time Brown junior or senior for creative nonfiction of 3,000 words or less. Submission can be a collection of brief pieces or one long piece. (Hard news pieces and entries over 3000 words will not be considered.) | Elizabeth Powers Erica Schwiegershausen |
1st Prize $1,000 2nd Prize $500 |
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Winners: Fall 2012
| Prize | Description | Winner |
Amount of award |
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| Barbara Banks Brodsky Prize in English | Awarded to a full-time junior or senior enrolled at Brown for the best essay on 20th-century literature in English. |
Christopher Janigian |
$750 |
| Barbara Banks Brodsky Prize for Excellence in Real World Writing | Awarded to a full-time junior or senior enrolled at Brown. Submission may come from the spectrum of nonfiction: literary journalism, memoir, or narrative based on travel, science, history, or cultural critique. Submission of a collection of brief pieces or one long piece should be limited to 3,000 words and must be printed on 8 1/2 “ x 11” paper. |
Maggie Millner |
$750 |
| David Rome Prize | For the best lyric essay by a currently enrolled undergraduate at Brown. This form includes essays written in poetical or experimental forms that emphasize artfulness. Submissions must be printed on 8 ½” x 11” paper. |
Anne Cushing |
$125 |
| Rose Low Rome Prize | For the best poem or poems by a currently enrolled undergraduate at Brown. |
Hannah Newman |
$125 |
| Arlene Rome Ten Eyck & Peter H. Ten Eyck Prize | For the best essay on literary theory by a currently enrolled undergraduate at Brown. | Maggie Millner |
$125 |