English Department Presents 2021 Kittay, Bowman and Hardie Literary Awards

WC Students Excel in Creative Writing Wilmington College's English Department announces the 2021 literary award winners in the Kittay Poetry Competition, Bowman Short Fiction Contest and Cliff Hardie Literary Analysis Essay Competition. These students received cash awards for their literary achievements. Seth Kittay, a member of the Class of 1968, sponsors the Kittay Poetry Competition as a means for encouraging students to write poetry and as an affirmation of the positive effect creative writing has had on his life. He is an entrepreneur in Los Angeles. Winners are: "Awakening" by Kaitlin Armstrong, first place; "Revelations" by Mikaela Prescott, second; "A Walk on Elm Street in February" by Wesley Nye, third; "Dreams of Reality" by Cierra Bolender, winner for topical; "March" by Sydney Morris, winner for nature; "Human's Hamartia" by Jalen Douglas, winner for sonnets; Lucy Enge, winner for recitation of her original work; and Haley Fouch, winner for recitation of a famous poet's work. The Bowman Short Fiction Contest is named in honor of George Bowman, a popular English professor from the mid-20^th century, Winners include Mikaela Prescott, "There Is Nothing Here," first place; Caden McKay, "Beware of Big Worms," second; and Phoebe Keller, "A Fresh Start," third place. Alan Frankel, Class of ’65, provides financial support for the Cliff Hardie Literary Analysis Essay Competition, which is named in honor of a mentor of his, the late Clifford Hardie, emeritus professor of English who taught at the College from 1960 to 1996. Frankel has praised his friend and former professor for opening especially enlightening avenues of creativity when he attended WC in the mid-1960s. Prize recipients in the upper division are Chloe Mason, "Decolonizing the Postcolonial Cycle in Shakespeare's The Tempest, first place; and Lucy Enge, "Hello, My Name Is Prison Food: Eating and Incarceration," second place. Lower division prizes went to Isabella Quickel, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — Close Reading," first place; and Julie Tolliver, "Reading Deeper: The Significance of Books Within Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You," second place.