19 win latest round of Hopwood writing awards
ANN ARBOR— Nineteen University of Michigan students will receive a share of $28,200 worth of writing prizes in the Hopwood Underclassmen Contest and other contests administered by the Hopwood Awards Program this winter.
With the prizes, the legacy of Avery Hopwood, a 1905 U-M graduate and the most successful Broadway playwright of the 1920s, continues to grow.
The Hopwood Underclassmen Contest awarded $13,100 to students. Another $15,100 was awarded in other contests administered by the Hopwood program: the Academy of American Poets Prize, Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry, Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.
The winners from Michigan are:
? David Buccilli of Clare, $2,000, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.
? Jane Cope of Grandville, double winner, $2,000 Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship and $100, The Academy of American Poets Prize ? Undergraduate Division.
? Ryan Crawford Downs of Ferndale, $2,000, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.
? Elizabeth Parker of Walled Lake, $2,000, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.
? Sara Walters of Ann Arbor, $2,000, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.
? Catherine Calabro of Ann Arbor, $600, Bain-Swiggert Poetry Prize.
? Nava Etshalom of Philadelphia, $100, Academy of American Poets Prize ? Graduate Division.
? Emily Zinneman of Royal Oak, $450, Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry.
? Zilka Joseph of Ann Arbor, $450, Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry.
? Perry Janes of Royal Oak, triple winner: $600, Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry; $1,500, Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction; $1,200, Hopwood Underclassmen Poetry.
? Gahl Liberzon of Ann Arbor, double winner: $800, Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry and $1,500, Hopwood Underclassmen Poetry.
? David Kinzer of Troy, $1,750, Hopwood Underclassmen Poetry.
? Andrew Lapin of Huntington Woods, $1,000, Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction.
? Da-Inn Erika Lee, Ann Arbor, $1,000, Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction.
? Xu (Sue) Li of Canton, $800, Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction.
? Jillian Maguire of Richland, $800 Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction.
? Alex O?Dell of Birch Run, $1,000 Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction.
Out-of-state winners are:
? Mary Paul of Brooklyn, N.Y.,.$2,000, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.
? Eli Hager of Chevy Chase, Maryland, double winner, $1,500, Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction and $800, Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction.
The 78-year-old program has awarded more than 3,000 prizes totaling over $2.1 million. Past winners have included Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller?who won his Hopwoods in the 1930s?and recent bestselling author Elizabeth Kostova.