English Department announces awards

March 29, 2006

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG.

The Creative Writing faculty of the Department of English Literature is pleased to announce that there will be TWO Morrell-Potter Summer Stipends in Creative Writing awarded for 2006: to Tiana Pyer-Pereira in poetry, and to Eliza Blair in fiction. As always, we found this a very difficult decision, with remarkable poems and stories submitted by writers in this year’s junior class. Congratulations to Tiana and Eliza, and indeed to all who shared their intriguing work with us.

The Department of English Literature announces and offers congratulations to the winners of the 2006 Poetry Contest:
Lois Morrell Award (First prize) – Lauren Rile Smith ’08
John Russell Hayes Award (Second prize) – Lisa Ubelaker Andrade ’06
John Russell Hays Award (Third prize) – Megan Mills ’06

The Department of English Literature announces and offers congratulations to the winners of the William Plumer Potter Awards in fiction:
First prize – Sonia Vallabh ’06
Second prize – Lauren Rile Smith ’08
Third prize – Angela Fleury ’06
Honorable Mention – Kevin Carr ’08 and Michelle Crouch ’06

Thanks to Carolyn Anderson for providing the text of this announcement.

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