Students share $1,525 in prizes for creative writing
ANN ARBOR—Three students at the University of Michigan have received Summer Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing, while two others were given the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry, also administered by the U-M Hopwood program.
Funded by a bequest from U-M alumnus and Broadway playwright Avery Hopwood, the 59th annual Summer Hopwood Contest bestows awards in fiction, essay, poetry and drama/screenplay categories.
Winners of the Summer Hopwood Awards and the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry, listed by hometown, are:
MICHIGAN:
BRIGHTON—Demian Linn, senior, $500 in the Hopwood fiction category for “Three Stories”; and Gregory Parker, senior, $300 in the Hopwood poetry category for “Street Visions.”
HOUGHTON—Melanie Kenny, sophomore, $125 for the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for “Irregularity.”
PLEASANT RIDGE—Sara Talpos, senior, $100 for the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for “For Aaron in Ballymoney.”
SOUTHFIELD—Michael Zilberman, senior, $500 in the Hopwood essay category for “Windows to Paris.”