Summer Undergraduate Hopwood Awards are announced

Summer Undergraduate Hopwood Awards are announced

ANN ARBOR—Six University of Michigan students received awards for their writings in the 64th Summer Hopwood Contest.

The students submitted original works for the drama/screenplay, essay, fiction, and poetry contests. The Hopwood Program, which promotes creative work in all forms of writing, administered all the awards. The Hopwood awards are funded by U-M alumnus Avery Hopwood, an American dramatist/playwright who graduated 1905.

Two Michigan students also received the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry. Mrs. Phyllis Rapaport funds the award in memory of her daughter.

Amy Diehl of East Lansing was a triple winner in the drama/screenplay, fiction, and essay categories, and Stacy J. Tiderington of Saginaw was a double winner in the poetry categories. Judges for the contest were Jason C. Kirk and Nancy Reisman of the University’s Department of English.

Winners of the Summer Hopwood Awards and the Marjorie Rapaport Award in poetry, listed by their hometown, are:

MICHIGAN

ANN ARBOR—Katherine Marguerite Armstrong, College of Engineering class of 2001, received $700 for her essay “gasp.”

EAST LANSING—Amy Diehl, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) class of 2002 and triple winner, received $800 for her Drama/Screenplay “Dreamless,” $800 for her essay “Free to a Good Home,” and $600 for her fiction piece, “A Made Place.”

GROSSE POINTE WOODS—Matthew Borushko, LSA class of 2001, received a $150 Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for “Variations on a Theme by Stevens.”

SAGINAW—Stacy J. Tiderington, LSA class of 2001, double winner, received $800 for her poem “Below this level there is none,” and a $250 Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for “words.”

WEST BLOOMFIELD—Josh Lefkowitz, School of Music class of 2003, received a $600 award for “Poems You Probably Shouldn’t Read to Your Children.”ILLINOIS

FLOSSMOOR—David L. Shwab, LSA class of 2002, received $700 for his fiction piece “Chicken Water and Properties of Being Queer.”

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