Six U-M students split $9,200 in prizes during the summer term Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing and the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry contests.
The awards are among the nation’s oldest contests for student writers, supported by a bequest from Avery Hopwood, a 1905 alumnus and successful Broadway playwright, and Jule Hopwood, his mother.
The winners are:
Nonfiction
• Anya Dudek, a class of 2010 communication studies and English major from Winnetka, Ill., for “The Shamu Show at Seaworld” and “Teadora Jozefina Koleczka Dudek,” $1,500
• Joshua M. Munro, a class of 2009 English major from Galveston, Texas, for “Grandpa Shoults,” $1,500
Fiction
• Jennifer Riemenschneider, class of 2009, English major from Chelsea, for “Down into Gone,” $2,500
Poetry
• Jessi Holler, a class of 2010 Residential College creative writing and film major from New Albany, Ohio, for “The National Museum of Family Caping,” $2,500
The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry
• Meghann Rotary, a class of 2009 creative writing and film major from Essexville, Mich., for “The Bachelor Machine,” $500
• Molly Gail Shannon, a class of 2011 creative writing major from Southfield, for “Creating Change,” $700
The Rappaport award is a gift in memory to her daughter from Phyllis Rapaport. The terms of this gift stipulate that the poems “shall exemplify the new, the unusual and the radical.”
The Hopwood program has awarded more than 3,000 prizes since it began in the 1930s.
