University of Michigan announces Hopwood winners

May 17, 2004
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ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan recently announced winners of the winter term Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards.

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

The Hopwood Awards are judged in two phases. A local screening committee comprising writers from the University and the surrounding community recommends manuscripts to be forwarded to national judges, who evaluate the writings and assign points to each work. The point totals indicate the level of financial reward to be given to a specific piece of writing. The winners, listed by their hometowns, are:

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor

Robyn Anspach, $3,000, Hopwood Graduate Poetry.

Jordan Bohy, $5,500, Hopwood Screenplay.

Newcombe Clark, $2,400, Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting.

Jeremiah Chamberlin, double winner, $6,500, Hopwood Graduate Short Fiction and $675 for the Andrea Beauchamp Prize.

Michelle Regalado Deatrick, double winner, $2,500 in the Hopwood Graduate Short Fiction category and $3,000 in the Hopwood Graduate Poetry competition.

Irene Hahn, double winner. $5,000, Hopwood Graduate Poetry and $700 for the Geoffery James Gosling Prize.

Elizabeth Hoyt, $2,400, Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting.

Elizabeth Kostova, $2,000, Hopwood Graduate Essay.

Madeline Kotowicz, $5,000, Hopwood Undergraduate Short Fiction and $1,750, the Robert F. Haugh Prize.

Karen Outen, $4,000, Hopwood Novel.

Clarkston

Nat Topping, $2,500, Hopwood Drama.

Detroit

Esohe Osai, $3,500, Hopwood Undergraduate Essay.

Flint

Elesia Bennett, $5,000, Hopwood Undergraduate Essay.

Grand Rapids

Mariama Lockington, $3,000, Hopwood Undergraduate Poetry.

Lansing

David Stanley Plastrik, triple winner: $5,000, Hopwood Undergraduate Essay; $4,000, Hopwood Undergraduate Poetry; and $2,200, the Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award.

Romeo

Jillian Dembowski, $2,000 tuition credit, Arthur Miller Award of the University of Michigan Club of New York Scholarship Fund.

Traverse City

Carolyn Tourner Schilling, double winner, $6,500, Hopwood Screenplay and $1,000 the Naomi Saferstein Literary Award.

OUT OF STATE

Connecticut

Hartford

Andrew Genser, $1,000, Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Fiction.

Florida

St. Petersburg

Rachel Losh, double winner. $2,000, Meader Family Award and $5,000, Hopwood Award: Theodore Roethke Prize for the Long Poem or Poetic Sequence.

Georgia

Atlanta

Travis Holland, $3,500, Hopwood Novel.

Illinois

Highland Park

Gabrielle Lensch, $3,000, Hopwood Undergraduate Poetry.

Washington, IL

Michael Hinken, $2,500, Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing.

Indiana

Lafayette

Will Dunlap, $5,000, Hopwood Undergraduate Short Fiction.

New York

Albany

Brian Lobel, $4,000, Hopwood Drama.

New York City

Donovan Hohn, double winner. $7,000, Hopwood Graduate Essay and $675, John Wagner Prize.

Pennsylvania

Allentown

Matthew Hittinger, double winner. $3,000, Hopwood Graduate Poetry and $675, John Wagner Prize.

Boalsburg

Courtney Mandryk, $3,000, Hopwood Graduate Poetry.

Massachusetts

Norfolk

Charlotte Boulay, $2,000, Meader Family Award.

Singapore

Vanessa Mae-Chern Heng

$1,000, Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Fiction.

Texas

Kilgore

Ben Stroud, $2,500, Hopwood Graduate Short Story.

Washington

Mount Vernon

Daniel Rivas, triple winner. $6,500, Hopwood Screenplay; $2,000, Hopwood Novel; and $2,000, Hopwood Graduate Essay.