David Rome

For the best lyric essay by a currently enrolled Brown undergraduate. This form includes essays written in poetical or experimental forms that emphasize artfulness.

• 1st Place Winner: Fara Odunlami, "the crack"
• 2nd Place Winner: Lucy Cooper-Silvas, "Invasive: A New Prayer for the Land"

Rose Low Rome

For the best poem or poems written by a currently enrolled Brown undergraduate. 

• 1st Place Winner: Jules Griswold, "Five Poems for Saving Money"
• 2nd Place Winner: Julian Ansorge, "How To Live"

Arlene Rome Ten Eyck & Peter H. Ten Eyck

For the best essay on literary theory by a currently enrolled Brown undergraduate. 

• 1st Place Winner: Corinne Leong, "Take Everything Away: The Body without Organs and Liberatory Memory in Never Let Me Go"
• 2nd Place Winner: Daniel Zheng, "The World Without Animals"

Barbara Banks Brodsky - Real-World Writing

Awarded to a full-time junior or senior. Submission may come from the spectrum of nonfiction: literary journalism, memoir, or narrative based on travel, science, history, and cultural critique. Submission should be limited to 3,000 words or less; can be a collection of brief pieces or one long piece.

• Winner: Corinne Leong, "The Woman That Loves You"

Barbara Banks Brodsky - English

For the best essay on 20th-century English literature by a junior or senior.

• Winner: Lucia Kan-Sperling, "“The more I observe…”: Defamiliarization and Artificial Intelligence in Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun"

Fiction

For the best essay of 5,000 words or less on any topic in literary criticism (fiction) by a senior

• 1st Place Winner: Solveig Asplund, “It’s always flowing in a stream, never the same”: Exploring Individualized Male Flow Through Urination, Ejaculation, and Bathing in Ulysses

Poetry

For the best essay of 5,000 words or less on any topic in literary criticism (poetry) by a senior 

• 1st Place Winner: Julian Ansorge, “All we know / is that we are a little early:” Arriving Early to Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”
• 2nd Place Winner: Everest Maya-Tudor, The Multidimensionality of Love in Chaucer’s “The Parliament of Fowls”

Cultural Criticism

For the best essay of 5,000 words or less on any topic in cultural criticism by a senior 

• 1st Place Winner: Lucia Kan-Sperling, Contingency, Facticity, and the Productive Potential of the Encounter: Althusser, Daston, Wilson
• 2nd Place Winner: Annie Stein, The Teenybopper Stage: Endless Male Pubescence in Mike Nichols' The Graduate

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.

• 1st Place Winner: Kathy Wang, A Growing History
• 2nd Place Winner: Yutki V. Agarwal, 26/11