College of Communication & Creative Arts - Writing Arts
Awards & Honors
Rowan University Literary Awards are offered every other year. Submissions will again be accepted in 2012.
2010 Medallion Winner Katherin Fitzpatrick
2010 Denise Gess Literary Awards
The Rowan University Prize for Poetry
First Place: "Five Poems" by Steven Harbold
Second Place: "Stories I Tell Myself" by Katherin Fitzpatrick
Third Place, a three-way tie:
"In Stitches" by Kate Peterson
"The Natural World" by Ryan Wenzel
"Form Studies" by Jonathan Wood
Honorable Mentions (for individual poems)
"Phase II" by Samantha Brown
"Waves of Love" by Sarah Kasama
"Is It Better?" by Rebecca Force
"Iron Oxide" and "Personal Poem #6" by Jayne Dzuback
The Pat B. Tweedie Award for Creative Nonfiction
First Place: "Solitude" by Melanie Pauker
Second Place: "You Are a Runner, and I Am My Father’s Son" by Bill Elenbark
Third Place: "Fear and Loathing on the Road in South Jersey: The Fall of the Heads" by Justin Eric Totora
Honorable Mentions:
"Inked" by Jackie Cassidy
"The Homerun Heard Round the Neighborhood" by Steven Harbold
"Accordian Bookcases" by Sarah Kasama
The Edward J. Czwartacki Award for Fiction
First Place: "Hondo" by Jackie Cassidy
Second Place Tie: "The Prize" by Hayley Van Amburg
"Cigarettes Will Kill You" by Bill Elenbark
Third Place: "Death’s Room" by Sam Dodge
Honorable Mentions:
"Let the Gun Do the Talking" by Steve Smith
"You’ll Have to Learn to Love Me the Way I Love You" by Anthony Dragonetti
2009 Medallion Winner Ryan Kristopovich
Spring 2008 Hollybush Writing Competition
First Place, Frank Paladino
Second Place, Kevin Ialeggio
Third Place, Gary Rettberg
Rowan University Literary Awards (Click on the links for .pdfs of the winning entries.)
Edward J. Czwartacki Award for Fiction
2008, First Place, "Echoes," by Bill Stewart, MAW program
Second Place, "I Need a Bike," by Joe Carlough, 2009
Third Place, tie, "Translation," by George Jacob, MAW program; "Things that Can’t be Seen," by David Brennan, MAW program
Honorable Mention, "Kuwait, Briefly," by Kamala Lane, 2008; "The Heart of the Storm," by Daniel Paganelli, 2008; "Rabbi," by Steven R. Levine, 2008
R.U. Award for Poetry
2008, First Place, "Snapshots from the Field," by Jonathan Guito, 2008
Second Place, "Poems 2008," by Katherin Fitzpatrick, 2010
Third Place, "The Homewrecker’s Handbook," by Justin Davis, 2010
Honorable Mention, individual poems, "Hunger," "Pay to Play" by Janelle Tillman, 2010; "Penny Arboretum," "Crystals," "Passion fruit," by Joe Carlough, 2009; "Brother, Sister," by David Brennan, MAW program; "Dragonflies," "Chicago," by Joan Hanna, 2009; "Feeling 'Goodness'," by Anthony Belluscio, 2009; "Finding Daddy," by Calley Steel, 2010
R.U. Award for Creative Nonfiction
2008, First Place, "Snuff," by Rebecca Bland, MAW program
Second Place, "Wonderland," by David Brennan, MAW program
Honorable Mention, "Never There," by Christina Weil, 2008; "Realization through Service," by Mike Breuning, 2011; "Holes in My Pockets," by Gabriel Arnold, 2011
