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2021 - 2022 Award Winners

First Year Writing

Short Form
1st Place: Isobel Faiges - The Insulin Crisis in America
2nd Place: Summer Goodman - Bad Girls
3rd Place: Reece Bradford - Stop Calling it Pop Punk, Just Call it Punk
Long Form
1st Place: Justin Hein - Keep Bees, Sans Beekeepers
2nd Place: Katie Fay - STEM Education Reform: Early Childhood Education Can Decrease Disparities in Education
3rd Place: Ronan Murphy - A Disaster for Democracy
Creative Nonfiction
1st Place: Elena Miller - The Futility of It All
2nd Place: Justin Hein - Light, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
3rd Place: Sarah Carleo - We'll Be a Fine Line
Multimodal/Digital Composition
1st Place: Sailor Sorenson - Free Self-Defense Classes at CU

Upper Divison Writing

A&S Writing Prize
1st Place: Zoe Johnson - The Spontanous Sublime: Why Getting Lost is Good For Your Mental Health
2nd Place: William Endres - Me and the Monoski
3rd Place: Paige Paulson - Touring the Homeland: A Journey in Search of Identity and Place in China
Creative Nonfiction
1st Place: Isaac Radin - To Be Like the Sun
2nd Place: Jaclyn Gary - Patient Forests
3rd Place: Brodie Woodall - The Earth Hold on to Memories the Body Cannot
Mackison Prize
1st Place: Naomi Lawton - From Amyloid Fibers to Super Silk: A Study on the Reprocessing of Scientific Research Articles for Popular Distribution
Collaborative Writing Award
1st Place: Alexa Hugenberg & Katie Deng - Resuming Operations Proposal
2nd Place: Kate Pendavinji, Justin Hall, and Carson Kohlbrenner - Bus to Show: Transportation Specialists Grant Proposal
Business Writing
1st Place: Jackson Day - Journey to PFC Free
2nd Place: Evelyn Meyer - Drying Up: Water Rights in the West

Diversity Writing

Diversity Award
1st Place: Katie Hirasaki - American Enough
2nd Place: Bianca Perez - My First Friend
3rd Place: Anonymous - Racism Reinforced by the Pandemic
Multilingual Writing
1st Place: Matias Capli - The Flip Side: International Student Bias

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