Barnard Department of English Awards
Each year, the English Department awards named prizes to a few English majors in recognition of their scholarship and accomplishments. The prizes requiring writing submissions are open to those not majoring in English as well.
Recipients of the 2013 Departmental Awards:
The ESTELLE M. ALLISON PRIZE
For excellence in literature
Winner: Cameron Ott
The ES CARRIGAN PRIZE
For graduate work in English
Winner: Sarah Handley
The W. CABELL GREET PRIZE
To a major for excellence in English
Winners: Margaret Boykin, Suzannah Friscia, and Rebecca Kelliher
The WILLIAM HALLER PRIZE
Awarded annually by the Barnard English Department to a graduating senior for excellence in the study of English Literature
Winners: Mirabel Bradley, Weihui Lu, and Hannah Ehrenberg
The SAINT AGATHA-MURIEL BOWDEN MEMORIAL PRIZE
For superior proficiency in the study of Chaucer and Medieval literature
Winner: Sarah Handley
The STAINS-BERLE MEMORIAL PRIZE IN ANGLO-SAXON
For excellence in Anglo-Saxon language and literature
Winner: Sarah Handley
Writing Prizes
The DORIS E. FLEISCHMAN PRIZE
For the student at Barnard judged by the Faculty of the English Department to have written the best short piece, fiction or non-fiction
Winner: Margaret Gay
The AMY LOVEMAN MEMORIAL FUND PRIZE
For the best original poem by a Barnard undergraduate
Winner: Xuela Zhang
The SIDNEY MINER POETRY PRIZE
To the senior major who has shown distinction in the reading, writing, and study of poetry
Winners: Anne Brink, Rebecca Gray, and Katherine Welsh
The HELENE SEARCY PULS PRIZE
For the best poem in an annual student competition
Winners: Anne Brink, Sarah Handley, and Ravenna Koenig
The HELEN PRINCE MEMORIAL PRIZE
For excellence in dramatic composition
Winner: Emma De Beus
The HOWARD M. TEICHMANN WRITING PRIZE
To a graduating senior for work distinguished in its originality of concept and excellence of execution
Winners: Abigail Arnold and Ariella Pultman
Based on Submissions
Awarded by Outside Judges:
The LENORE MARSHALL BARNARD PRIZES
In prose and poetry
- Prose winner: Jordan Alam and Ravenna Koenig
- Poetry winners:
-- First: Anne Brink
-- Second: Ravenna Koenig and Sarah Handley
-- Third: Katherine Friedman and Catherine Bloomer
-- Honorable mention: Rebecca Gray and Annie Diamond
The PETER S. PRESCOTT PRIZE FOR PROSE WRITING
For a work of prose fiction which gives the greatest evidence of creative imagination and sustained ability
- 1st place winner: Jordan Alam
- 2nd place winner: Nell Koring
- 3rd place winners: Lillian Fishman and Ravenna Koenig
- Honorable mention: Abigail Arnold, Ariella Pultman, and Kayla Desroches
Judged by Departmental Committee
The BURNS SOCIETY PRIZE
To the student who writes the best paper on a topic related to the poetry of the 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns
Winner: Jason Bell
Page last updated 5/1/13
