Writing Contest Reading and Award Ceremony

04/23/15

Contributed by Jaime Warburton

Please join us in celebrating these authors and these words Wednesday the 29th at 6:00 PM in the Handwerker Gallery. 

 Out of the wildly fascinating, felt, and in-depth pieces of writing from across the campus, the following works have been named winners in the 2015 Ithaca College Writing Contest:


 Personal Essay

  1. Justin Le, "Commando, Father, Prisoner"
  2. Grace Rychwalski, "Curious"

Fiction

  1. Benjamin Gallagher, "Intents and Purposes"
  2. Charles Finn, "The Legend of Zbrofski"

Poetry 

  1. Taryn Pire, "Up in Smoke," "First Time," "Why She Prays"
  2. Charles Finn, "skipping stones," Untitled, "illinois"

Feature        Honorable Mention: Sabina Leybold, "Eating Behind Bars"  

Professional Writing         No Winner Selected  

Nonfiction

  1. Matt Schultz, "Bugged: almost nothing overcome, but a few things clarified, though perhaps too thoroughly"
  2. Natalya Cowilich, "Living with a Label: Incorporating Learning Disability into Sense of Self" 

First-Year Essay

  1. Matt Gurbarg, "Set Up to Fail: On Institutional Racism"
  2. Melanie Kossuth, "Gauging Decades of Conflict in 140 Characters"

Judge's Prize        Matt Schultz, "Bugged: almost nothing overcome, but a few things clarified, though perhaps too thoroughly"  

The award-winning writing will be published on the Ithaca College webpage by the end of this week. Stay tuned!

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Jaime Warburton at jwarburton@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

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