UM-Dearborn Writing Award Winners
As the chair of the UM-Dearborn Writing Awards, I would like to thank all the students for their submissions this year.
Special thanks to the interdisciplinary judging panel and external judges:
Sandra Beasley (creative non-fiction), Blake Bulter (fiction), Bruce Covey (poetry), Scott DeGregorio (LPA), Francine Dolins (Behavioral Sciences), Jennifer Proctor (LCC) and Writing Program faculty PF Potvin, Lee Brooks, Thom Foy and Cathy Miller.
Congratulations to all the prize winners.
First-Year Writing
First place: Derek Greco, “The Alternate Dimension of the Comic Book Store”
Second place: Eric Bennett, “Ποφέρω”
Third place (two-way tie): Rebecca Shaw, “Casualty of War: The Emotional Struggles of One Jewish Family,” and Stephanie Jones, “Distance”
Researched Writing
First place: Marium Zafar, “More and Less and Lost: The Treatment of Artifice and Clothing in The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost“
Second place: Danielle Gilshire, “The Matrix Technique”
Third place: Lindsey Desmet, “Gentle Giants: A study of the Toledo Zoo’s docile Gorilla gorilla gorilla group”
Fiction
First place: Nina Paolini, “The Blanks”
Second place: Samantha Ehlert, “Africa”
Third place: Jacob Tropiano, “Waiting Nevermore”
Poetry
First place: Melissa Gellenbeck, “A Window Pane”
Second place: Marissa Houston, “What I Am”
Third place: Stephanie Jones, “Gift”
Honorable Mention: Angela Sabella, “Colors of Creation”
Honors Writing
First place: Pamela Yaacoub, “Orgies Rule: A Cultural Materialist Look at Sex in Brave New World”
Second place: Elizabeth Bastian, “Nice Guys Finish Last”
Third place: Natalie Judd, “Detroit Through New Eyes”
Creative Non-fiction
First place: Nina Paolini, “Damages”
Second place: Samatha Ehlert, “For Jack”
Third place: Laura Clark, “Taking the Right Turns”
Writing in the Public Sphere
First place: Sara Arnold, “Through the Eyes of a Photographer”
Second place: Hussein Jaward, “Marriage Equality in Michigan: How and Why We Should Establish It”
Third place: Miriam Bukhsh, “Personal Health Problems to Public Health Issues: The Human Papillomavirus”
Writing & Multiple Media
First place: Christopher Bader, “In the Red”
Second place: Danielle Gilshire, “Little Shadows”
Third place: Dominica Convertino, “The American Dream”
In The Year of Our Ford…
Fresh back from an auto history walking tour and tour of the Piquette Plant with my U of M-Dearborn students. For those outside the know, this was the birthplace of the model T and other models of Ford cars. The museum also boasts a vast array of vintage autos, including the GT that broke the land speed record a few years back, and informative exhibits on the individuals involved in transforming the face of industrial history.
You can paint it any color, so long as it's black
Kicking the Leaves
Out the dining room window the trees are winking yellow to orange to red. It’s my son’s first fall and he’s bright-eyed in his blue-eared hat. Time for pops to show him a thing or two about kicking the leaves.
Papa’s Got a Brand New
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