English department announces writing contest winners

Submitted by Julie Rafferty
Phone: 907-474-7197
04/18/08

Each spring, the UAF English Department sponsors various writing contests, many open to students from any UA campus. We congratulate this year’s winners and thank all entrants and judges for their participation.

Farthest North Fiction Contest
Judge: Marjorie Kowalski Cole, author
1st Place $100 award - Peter Christian (UAS)
2nd Place - Jenny Olson (UAF)
3rd Place - Daniel Zollman (UAF)
Honorable mention - Nicole Allum (UAA)

Northern Lights Essay Contest
Judge: Professor Kerri K. Morris, UAA
1st Place $100 award - Kevin Eib (UAF)
2nd Place - Tom Moran (UAF)
3rd Place - Ann LaRee Johnson (UAF)
Honorable mention - Lance Twitchell (UAF)

Harold McCracken Award for Outstanding Writing About Alaska and the North Country
Judge: Professor Jackie Cason, UAA
1st Place $150 award - Lance Twitchell (UAF)
2nd Place - Mary Jacobs (UAS)
3rd Place - Peter Christian (UAS)
Honorable mention - Tom Moran (UAF)

Harold McCracken Endowment Poetry Award
Judge: Professor Emily Wall, UAS
1st Place $100 Award - Michael Welsh (UAF)
2nd Place - Tom Moran (UAF)
3rd Place - Douglas Cost (UAF)

Minnie E. Wells Award in Literary Criticism
Judge: Suzanne Forster, UAA
1st Place $200 award - Amanda Jean Babcock (UAF)
2nd Place - Viletta Knight (UAF)
3rd Place - Daniel Zollman (UAF)
Honorable mentions - Nicole Allum (UAA), Dana Salmon (UAF), Kathryn Cessnun (UAF)

E.L. Bartlett Prize for Literary Criticism
Judge: Professor Daniel T. Kline, UAA
1st Place $100 award - Amanda Jean Babcock (UAF)
2nd Place - Lisa Janout (UAF)
3rd Place - Bryr Ludington (UAF)

Archie Shiels Freshman Writing Contest
Judge: Professor Kevin Maier, UAS
1st Place $100 award -Todd Vorisek (UAF)
2nd Place - Laura Davis (UAF)
3rd Place - Rebecca Finner (UAF)