ANN ARBOR—Ten University of Michigan students split $5,800 in prizes in the Hopwood Underclassmen Contest for fiction, poetry and essay. The Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing are the country’s oldest contest for student writers. The Academy of American Poets Prizes, the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, the Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry, the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship, and the Louise and George Piranian Scholarship were also presented.

Poet and Prof. Richard Tillinghast of the U-M Department of English presented the awards at a ceremony featuring reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa.

The Hopwood awards are presented every fall, winter, and summer and are funded by a bequest from Avery Hopwood, 1905 U-M graduate and successful Broadway playwright, and Jule Hopwood, his mother. Past winners include Arthur Miller, John Ciardi and Marge Piercy.

Winners of the awards, listed by hometown, are:

MICHIGAN

ANN ARBOR—Jason Kirk, graduate student, $250, the Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry for “Sabotage”; Valery Laken, graduate student, $1,200, a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship; Jennifer Lutman, graduate student, $1,100, a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.

BATTLE CREEK—Sarah Hudson, sophomore, $500, the Hopwood essay category for “Auntie and Other Stories.”

CLARK LAKE—James Healy, freshman, $900, the Hopwood fiction category for “Blinding.”

DEARBORN—Saladin Ahmen, senior, $800, a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.

DETROIT—Cherisse E. Montgomery, freshman, $600, the Hopwood essay category for “Times: they are a changing.”

FARMINGTON HILLS—Daniel Kahn, sophomore, $300 in the Hopwood awards for “Leaving Songs.”

HICKORY CORNERS—Tori Turner, sophomore, $300 in the Hopwood poetry category for “The Luck I’ve Had.”

HOLLAND—Cara Spindler, Senior, $800, a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.

KALAMAZOO—Todd Carmody, sophomore, $800 in the Hopwood poetry category for “My Blue Letter Writing Campaign.”

MACOMB—Melissa L. Jones, junior, $100, the Academy of American Poets Prize for Undergraduates for “After Dinner, September.”

OKEMOS—Mike Breymann, sophomore, $400 in the Hopwood essay category for “The Relevance of Philosophy to Modern Scientific Conceptions of the Universe.”

TROY—Pete Christenson, sophomore, $500 in the Hopwood poetry category for “Junkyard Radicalism.”

YPSILANTI—Incigul Sayman, graduate student, $800, a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.

OUT OF STATE

ILLINOIS:

CHICAGO—Robin A. Morrissey, graduate student, $800, a Roy W. Cowden Memorial fellowship.

OAK PARK—Allison Liefer, graduate student, $100, the Academy of American Poets for “At the Bar, You Explain Your Religion.”

INDIANA:

MARTINSVILLE—Jason Bredle, graduate student, $250, the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize for “The Right Hand of Karma Is Extending Its Middle Finger,” and $150, the Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry for “Girls, Look Out for Todd Bernstein.”

NEW YORK:

BROOKLYN—Seth Yalcin, freshman, $600 in the Hopwood essay category for “Termites,” and $100, the Louise and George Piranian Scholarship. CHAPPAQUA?Cara L. Chase, sophomore, $900, the Hopwood fiction category for “Down to My Height.”