2024 Contest Winners
Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing
Fiction
1st Place: Nooneh Gyurjyan
2nd Place: Elizabeth Bunt
3rd Place: Sophia Patterson
Poetry
1st Place: Jade Meshew
2nd Place: Lani Lam
3rd Place: Yizel Solano Gonzalez
Diana Lynn Bogart Prize for Fiction
1st Place: Roxanne Demorest
2nd Place: Annabel Marshall
Honorable Mention: Angie Velarde
Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize
1st Place: Emily Granger
Honorable Mention: Isabella Wahbeh
Lois Ann Lattin Prize for Best Honors Theses
Critical Honors Thesis
Shane O'Connell
Esperanza Muñoz Hernandez
Honorable Mention: Cindy Nguyen
Creative Writing Honors Thesis
Andrew Thompson
Honorable Mention: Annabel Marshall
Lois Ann Lattin Prize for Outstanding Graduating Senior
Emily Granger
Lois Ann Lattin Prize for Outstanding Critical Essay
John Yarbrough
Honorable Mention: Annabel Marshall
Peter Hays Award - First Year Seminar
Madison Wong
Faculty Instructor: Heidi Moss-Erickson
Deirdre Hackett Awards
Dalia Barghouty
Sriharini Seshachalam
Jade Meshew
Alison Oses
Marilyn Ramirez
Steven Valenzuela
George Hegarty
Jack Hicks Literature of California Awards
Alison Maas and Grace Hayes
Kai Wilson
Damieka Thomas
Jack Hicks Award
Megan Campbell
Krista Hajjar and Jasmine Keorghlian
Evan Martinak
Rachel Wang
Kirsten Schuhmacher and Mikhaila Redovian
Emily Rich
Helen Duong
David Noel Miller Essay Prize
Melina Rodriguez
Elijah Two Bears
2022 Contest/Prize Winners
Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing
Fiction
1st: Keerti Lakshmanan
2nd: Rafael Viscarra
3rd: Hope Koonin
Poetry
1st: Anna Kristina Moseidjord
2nd: Cmi Rothmuller
3rd: Jesse Saldivar
Diana Lynn Bogart Prize for Fiction
Fiction
1st: Faith Arnett
2nd: Jacob Anderson
3rd: Cyan Mcmillan
Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Contest
1st: Bailey Harrison
Elliot Gilbert Prize for the Best Honors Critical Thesis
Best Critical Honors Thesis: Anna Hayden
Best Creative Wrting Honors Project: Anna Kristina Moseidjord
Lois Ann Lattin Rosenberg English Department Essay Prize
Outstanding Graduating Seniors: Fiona Davis and Eli Elster
Essay Prize Winner: Eli Martin
Peter Hays Writing Prize
Winner: Emilie Sung
Faculty Instructor: Maurice Pitesky
Gilbert Prize
Jenavieve Hatch (Nonfiction)
Kayleigh Norgord (Poetry)
Catherine Niu (Fiction)
Miller Essay Prize
Winner: Augusta Funk
2021 Contest/Prize Winners
2021 Lois Ann Lattin Rosenberg English Department Essay Prize
1st Place: Teja Dusanapudi
2nd Place:
2021 Elliot Gilbert Prize for the Best Honors Critical Thesis
2021 Elliot Gilbert Prize for the Best Honors Creative Writing Project
Elizabeth Mercado
Matthew Pimley
2020 Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing
FICTION
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place (tie)
&
POETRY
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place (tie)
&
Finalist in the 2020 Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize
(Anthony went on to win the multi-campus first place prize)
2020 Diana Lynn Bogart Prize for Fiction
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
2020 Lois Ann Lattin Rosenberg English Department Essay Prize
1st Place:
2nd Place: