Each year the Department of English sponsors a creative writing contest for all students.  Entries are evaluated by a team of faculty judges.  The winners of the 2008 Student Poetry, Fiction, and Prose Poetry Contest are: 

In the Verse poetry category:

Carolyn Rodgers, first prize for Cigarettes
Ryan Desaulniers, second prize Untitled
Lauren Gibons, third prize for Soot

Honorable Mention 

Paul Matyasovsky for Under Nectar Trees
Liz Mosier for The Chicago Ocean
Ricardo Andres Arocha for Wells of Misery
Robert Siravo for Black Hole
Alexandra BetGeorge for Hourglass
Craig Malesra for Metallurgy

In the Prose poetry category:

Kristina Reardon, first prize for Zdrava Marija
Sylvia Williams, second prize for To the Lover who once was
Craig Malesra, third prize for Apotheosis

In the Fiction category:

Kristina Reardon, first prize for Napolitanke
S. Lewis Kowalsky, second prize for The Ape and Sisyphus
Audrey LeBrun, third prize for The Vacation

Honorable Mention
Jaime Tirrell for The Problem with Stone Face Sanity
John Mango for Rejoice