EDITORS: Winners are listed by hometown.

ANN ARBOR—Twenty-five University of Michigan students won $110,000 in prizes for their essays, fiction and poetry in the 70th annual Hopwood contest. The Hopwood Program also administers three fellowship competitions and five poetry contests, all awards were presented by Nicholas Delbanco, U-M professor of English and director of the Hopwood Awards Program.

Two hundred ten students entered 284 manuscripts in the winter Hopwood Award Contest. All U-M graduate and undergraduate students were eligible to submit their work if they were enrolled in a writing course at the University.

U-M student Jonathan Brenner, of Ann Arbor, was awarded $6,000 in the Hopwood Undergraduate Essay contest for his work “Carnage in Carthage” and “The Watches of Luzbourg.” Veronica Pasfield, of Boyne City, Mich., won $5,000 in the Undergraduate Poetry contest and was awarded a $1,750 Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award.

Several other students also won multiple awards. Scott Hutchins of Ann Arbor won a $4,500 award in the Hopwood Novel category, $5,000 in Hopwood Graduate Short Fiction category and the $700 Andrea Beauchamp Prize.

The Hopwood Awards are funded by a bequest from U-M alumnus and Broadway playwright Avery Hopwood. The Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards are presented three times annually, during fall, winter and summer terms.

Winners, listed by hometown, are:

MICHIGAN: ANN ARBOR

Scott Berzon, an MFA student in the English Department, $2,000 Meader Family Award for his work “Wake up Dirty”;

Jonathan Brenner, LSA class of 2002, $6,000 in the Undergraduate Essay category for “Carnage in Carthage” and “The Watches of Luzbourg”;

Margaret Lazarus Dean, an MFA student in the English Department, $3,500 in the Novel category for “A Better Lesson”;

Rae Gouirand, an MFA student in the English Department, $5,500 in the Graduate Poetry category for “Imprints” and $700 from The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize;

Chris Hebert, an MFA student in English Department, $4,000 in the Novel category for “Nostalgia”;

Scott Hutchins, an MFA student in the English Department, $4,500 in the Novel category for “Lake Testament” and $5,000 in the Graduate Short Fiction category for “The Evolution of Desire and Other Stories” and the $700 Andrea Beauchamp Prize;

Stefan Kiesbye, an MFA student in the English Department, $2,000 from the Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing for “Queen City”;

Aric Knuth, an MFA student in the English Department, $4,500 in the Graduate Short Fiction category for “Wild Times on Elwood Lake”;

Valerie Laken, an MFA student in the English Department, $3,000 in the Graduate Drama/Screenplay category for “The McGrady’s”;

Sharon Pomerantz, an MFA student in the English Department, $4,000 in the Graduate Drama/Screenplay category for “After the Flood”; $3,000 in the Graduate Essay category for “Dishwashing”;

Ryan Tecco, an LSA class of 2002, the $2,000 Arthur Miller Award from the University of Michigan Club of New York Scholarship Fund for his play “Our Good Neighbor” and $2,000 from The Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting. BIRMINGHAM

Nicholas Allan Harp, an MFA student in the English Department, $5,500 in the Graduate Poetry category for “No Joke.” BOYNE CITY

Veronica Pasfield, LSA class of 2002, $5,000 in the Undergraduate Poetry category for “Home” and the $1,750 Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award. DEARBORN

Kristin M. Hatch, Residential College class of 2002, $5,500 in the Undergraduate Short Fiction category for “Collecting Saints” and the $1,400 Robert F. Haugh Prize. EAST LANSING

Benjamin Paloff, an MFA student in the English Department, $3,500 in the Graduate Poetry category for “Typeface” and $5,000 in the Graduate Essay category for “Grace and Other Essays.” FARMINGTON HILLS

Daniel Kahn, Residential College class of 2001, $4,000 in the Undergraduate Drama/Screenplay category for “Mo: A Screenplay”;

Andrea George, LSA class of 2002, $4,500 from the Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing for her screenplay “Sage.” FENTON

Katie Mulcrone, Residential College class of 2001, $3,000 in the Undergraduate Poetry category for “20 Sonnets.” FLINT

Eva Frazee, LSA class of 2001, $3,000 in the Undergraduate Essay category for “Silence.” GRAND RAPIDS

Jennifer Lee Waterbury, LSA and School of Art class of 2003, $3,000 in the Undergraduate Poetry category for “Openings.” GRAND BLANC

Brooke Baker, U-M-Flint class of 2002, $3,000 in the Undergraduate Short Fiction category for “Row 3, Seat 2 on the Greyhound from Mobile.” GROSSE ILE

Kristi McGuire, Residential College class of 2002, $4,500 in the Undergraduate Short Fiction category for “Kooks,” “Pretty Vacant,” and “Two-Trick Pony.” KALAMAZOO

Todd Carmody, LSA class of 2001, $3,000 in the Undergraduate Essay category for “Invisibility and the White Male.” LANSING

Edward Murray, School of Music class of 2001, the $2,000 Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting for “Synapse: Neo-Vaudeville for the Short Attention Set.” NORTHVILLE

David M. Anderson, LSA class of 2001, $2,000 in the Undergraduate Drama/Screenplay category for “Passing Shots” and $1,000 from the Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prizes in Dramatic Writing. PLYMOUTH

Gabriel Burnstein, LSA class of 2001, $5,000 in the Undergraduate Drama/Screenplay category for “The Oxford Train” and the $1,000 Naomi Saferstein Literary Award. CALIFORNIA: PASADENA

Stephanie L. Ford, MFA student in the English Department, $4,000 in the Graduate Short Fiction category for “Voyages Close to Home.” FLORIDA: LAKELAND

Patricia Akhimie, MFA student in the English Department, the $2,000 Meader Family Award for “The Oba’s Procession.” ILLINOIS: CHICAGO

Fritz Garner Swanson, MFA student in the English Department, the $1,000 Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in fiction for “A Boy’s Own Book of Adventure.” MARYLAND: COLUMBIA

Jake Rollow, School of Education class of 2002, $3,000 in the Undergraduate Short Fiction category for “Frozen Foods.” MASSACHUSETTS: LEXINGTON

Erica Lehrer, doctoral student in anthropology, $2,000 in the Graduate Essay category for “The Only Jewish Bookshop in Poland” and “Re-Populating Jewish Poland—In Wood.” INDONESIA: SURABAYA

Abhishek Kumar, LSA class of 2001, $2,000 in the Undergraduate Drama/Screenplay category for “End of the Rainbow.”

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