Wilmington College students received cash awards for their creative writing in the Kittay Poetry Competition, Bowman Short Fiction Contest and Cliff Hardie Literary Analysis Essay Competition during a ceremony on April 16 led by members of the English faculty.
1968 graduate Seth Kittay has funded the poetry award both as a means for encouraging students to write poetry and as an affirmation of the positive effect writing has had on his life. He is an entrepreneur and businessman in Los Angeles. The winning entries were submitted by Lyllian Kelley, first place, “Stereotypes”; Mary Rose, second, “Explaining Myself”; and Robert Howse, third, “Concrete Jungle.”
George Bowman was a popular English professor in the mid-20th century. Winners of the Bowman Short Fiction Contest were Grace Matthews, first, “The Fall”; J.M. Ewing, second, “Secundo Occasio”; and Isabelle Brown, third, “Entries from an Emptied Mind.”
Alan Frankel, Class of ’65, funds the Cliff Hardie Literary Analysis Essay Competition in tribute to and in memory of Hardie, an English professor from 1960 to 1996. Frankel has praised his friend and former professor for opening especially enlightening avenues for his creativity when he attended WC in the mid-1960s. Winners included: Lower Division — Olivia Roark, first, “The Hurting Part”; and Meghan Cory, second, “Bud, Not Buddy Paper”; Upper Division — Ethan Thompson, first, “Perception, Production, Portrayal: Six Characters and the Absurdity of Life"; and Amber Corll, second, “You Can Try and Cut Me Down, But I’m Still Standing.”
The College’s English faculty includes Laura Struve, Marta Wilkinson, Ursula McTaggart, Brooke Boling and Mike Hampton.
TOP PHOTO: English Professor Marta Wilkinson presented the Kittay Poetry Competition awards to, from the left, Lyllian Kelley, first place; Mary Rose, second; and (not pictured) Robert Howse, third.
PICTURED: Professor Michael Hampton presented the Bowman Short Fiction Contest awards to, from the left, Grace Matthews, first; J.M. Ewing, second; and Isabelle Brown, third.
PICTURED: Professor Laura Struve presented the Cliff Hardie Literary Analysis Essay Competition awards to, from the left, Olivia Roark, first (Lower Division); Meghan Cory, second (Lower Division); Ethan Thompson, first (Upper Division); and Amber Corll, second (Upper Division).