ANN ARBOR—Twenty-one University of Michigan students received a share of $25,450 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 $10,550 to students. Another $14,900 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:

? Keesha Hargrow of Ypsilanti, Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction Award

$800.

? Lindy Lazar of Warren, Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction Award, $600.

? Carolyn Lusch of Redford, The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship,

$2,000.

? Rebecca Porte of Ann Arbor, Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, $550.

? Anna Prushinskaya of Farmington Hills, The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship

$1,000.

? Meghann Rotary of Essexville, The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship

$2,000.

? Sarah Sala of Brooklyn, Mich., double winner: The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship, $1,000 and The Academy of American Poets Prize, Undergraduate Division

$100.

? Molly Gail Shannon of Southfield, The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry

$650 and Hopwood Underclassmen Poetry Award, $600.

? Jennifer Sussex of Jackson, Hopwood Underclassmen Poetry Award,

$800.

? D’Anne Witkowski of Ferndale, Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry

$350.

Out-of-state winners are:

? Beenish Ahmed of Perrysburg, The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship

$2,000.

? Yue Ding of Hangzhou, China, Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction Award

$600.

? Jessica Hoffman of Edison, N.J., Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction Award

$800.

? Jessi Holler of New Albany Ohio (triple winner), The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship, $2,000; Hopwood Underclassmen Poetry, $1,750; and Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry, $650.

? Kristie Kachler of Maysville, Kentucky, Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry,

$500.

? Rebekah Ann Oakes of Doylestown, Pa., The Academy of American Poets Prize, Graduate Division, $100.

? Jessie Roy of Madisonville, Kentucky, The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship

$2,000.

? Noveed Safipour of Saratoga, Calif., Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction Award

$1,250.

? Arshabh Sarda of Princeton Jct., N.J., Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction Award

$1,250.

? Cathy Song of Barrington, Ill., Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction Award

$600.

? Elise Rebecca Wanger of Chicago, Ill., Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction Award

$1,500.

The 77-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.

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