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Denise Gess Literary Award Winners

2018 Award Winners

Rowan University Prize for Poetry
First Place: Morgan Douglas - "Red"
Second Place: Daniel McGilloway - "Bloom and Decay"
Third Place: Vasiliki Dinoulis - "Meraki"
Honorable Mention: Tara Lonsdorf - "Procrastinators, Pyromaniacs and Other Patron Saints of Holocen"; Kylee Bagley - "Far Away Friends"; Laura Kincaid - "Ghosts I Carry"
 ​
Edward Czwartacki Prize for Fiction
First Place: Tara O’Day - "When She Asks to Go Home"
Second Place: Daniel DeLuise - "Unidentified"
Third Place: Dylann Cohn-Emery - "Strong For Us"
Honorable Mention: Daniel McGilloway - "Coulrophobia"
 
Pat B. Tweedie Prize for Creative Nonfiction
First Place: Alex Phillips - "Caught in the Intersection"
Second Place: Rachel Barton - "Haunted"
Third Place: Emily Strauser - "Fine"
Honorable Mention: Alix McKinstry - "An Ode to an Oak Table"; Justina Addice - "Music—A Double Sided Portrait"

2016 Award Winners

Rowan University Prize for Poetry
First Place: Robert Henhaffer - "Tuckahoe Road"
Second Place: Vasiliki Dinoulis  - "Nodus Tollens"
Third Place: Jennifer Martin - "Gloucester County"
Honorable Mention: Ethan Stoetzer - "Doublethink"; Joe Jordan -- "Then Brutus Spoke of Honor"
​

Edward Czwartacki Prize for Fiction
First Place: Michael Comoroto -- "Fat Loser"
Second Place: Colin Boyle - "Nightmare in Suburbia"
Third Place: Stephanie Daley - "How the Seasons Changed"
Honorable Mention: Mark Ackerman - "Selene"; Joe Jordan -- "Fire Sucks"

Pat B. Tweedie Prize for Creative Nonfiction
First Place: Alicia Rodriguez - "Eyes of the Storm"
Second Place: Susette Brooks - "Never Ending"
Third Place: Daniel DeLuise - "Uncle Jab and the House of Pain"
Honorable Mention: Michael Comoroto - "My Brother’s Ashes"; Liz Ditzel -- "A Perfectionist’s Playbook"; Rachel Barton -- "Calendar"; Nah’Ja Washington - "Now I Know"

​2014 Award Winners

The Rowan University Prize for Poetry (for collections)
First place:  Joe Jordan - "Observations and a Cozy Chair"
Second Place: Stephanie Kohler - "Stuck on the Cusp"
Third Place: Regina McMenamin-Lloyd - "Nostaligia Poetry"
Honorable Mention (for individual poems): Ojas Patel - "How to Make Samosas" & "Mom's Grief Upon a Return to India"; Dave Vogtman - "Dishonest Abe"; Ethan Stoetzer - "The Killing Tree"; Daniel DeLuise - "Afterlife"; Laurie Toich - "How to Be a Good Parent"; Vincent Lanni - "Write in Color”

The Edward Czwartacki Award for Fiction
First Place: Katelyn Sullivan - "Harlequin"
Second Place: Regina McMenamin-Lloyd - "The Scarlett Splinter"
Third Place: Kristina Forest - "As of Yet…"
 
The Pat B. Tweedie Award for Nonfiction
First Place: Ojas Patel - "Your New Face"
Second Place: Joe DiCarlo - "Six Days in the Absence of Life"
Third Place: Alfred J. Dansbury, Sr. - "Making Do"
Honorable Mention: Carol Magrino - "Subscribing"
​

2012 Award Winners

Rowan University Prize for Poetry
First Place: 
Joe McGee - "Have You Seen Me?"
Second Place: 
Samantha Brown - "The Devil We Know (and other Folklore from the Garden State)"
Third Place: 
Rebecca Force - "Authentic Philosophy"
​Honorable Mention: 
Jayne Dzuback - "Carpooling to Game Night"; Regina McMenamin Lloyd - "Obsessive Love Disorder"; Meghan O’Donnell - "dream-walking"; Anita Sipala - "Resignation"
​

The Edward J. Czwartacki Award for Short Fiction
First Place: 
Katelyn Catinella - "The Incisor"
Second Place: 
Kristina Forest - "Cedric the Great"
Third Place: 
Christopher Cullen - "The Path"
Honorable Mention:
 Alex Grover - "The Cemetery Watchers"; Samantha Brown -- "The Couch in the Basement"

The Pat. B. Tweedie Award for Creative Nonfiction

First Place: Casey Otto - "Atop the Camel’s Hump"
Second Place: Lacey Bouchard - "The Bridge"
Third Place: Samantha Brown - "Hate Island"
Honorable Mention: "The Hike" - Kayla Ewing ; "The Great Blue Circle" - Natalie Busarello 

2010 Award Winners

The Rowan University Prize for Poetry
First Place: "Five Poems" - Steven Harbold
Second Place: "Stories I Tell Myself" - Katherin Fitzpatrick
Third Place: 
Kate Peterson - "In Stitches"; Ryan Wenzel - "The Natural World"; Jonathan Wood - "Form Studies"​
Honorable Mentions (for individual poems): Samantha Brown - "Phase II"; Sarah Kasama - "Waves of Love"; Rebecca Force - "Is It Better?"; Jayne Dzuback - "Iron Oxide" & "Personal Poem #6"​

The Edward J. Czwartacki Award for Fiction
First Place: 
Jackie Cassidy -"Hondo"
Second Place Tie: 
Hayley Van Amburg - "The Prize"; Bill Elenbark - "Cigarettes Will Kill You"
Third Place: 
Sam Dodge - "Death’s Room"
Honorable Mentions: Steve Smith - "Let the Gun Do the Talking"; Anthony Dragonetti - "You’ll Have to Learn to Love Me the Way I Love You"


The Pat B. Tweedie Award for Creative Nonfiction
First Place: 
Melanie Pauker - "Solitude" 
Second Place: Bill Elenbark - "You Are a Runner, and I Am My Father’s Son" 
Third Place:
Justin Eric Totora - "Fear and Loathing on the Road in South Jersey: The Fall of the Heads"
Honorable Mentions: Jackie Cassidy - "Inked"; Steven Harbold - "The Homerun Heard Round the Neighborhood"; Sarah Kasama - "Accordian Bookcases"

Rowan University Literary Awards 

(Click on the links for .pdfs of the winning entries.)
The Edward J. Czwartacki Award for Fiction
​2008, First Place, "Echoes," by Bill Stewart, MAW program
Second Place, "I Need a Bike," by Joe Carlough, 2009
Third Place, tie, "Translation," by George Jacob, MAW program; "Things that Can’t be Seen," by David Brennan, MAW program
Honorable Mention, "Kuwait, Briefly," by Kamala Lane, 2008; "The Heart of the Storm," by Daniel Paganelli, 2008; "Rabbi," by Steven R. Levine, 2008


The Rowan University Prize for Poetry
​
​​2008, First Place, "Snapshots from the Field," by Jonathan Guito, 2008
Second Place, "Poems 2008," by Katherin Fitzpatrick, 2010
Third Place, "The Homewrecker’s Handbook," by Justin Davis, 2010
Honorable Mention: "Hunger," "Pay to Play" by Janelle Tillman, 2010; 

"Penny Arboretum," "Crystals," "Passion fruit," by Joe Carlough, 2009; 
"Brother, Sister," by David Brennan, MAW program; 
"Dragonflies," "Chicago," by Joan Hanna, 2009; 
"Feeling 'Goodness'," by Anthony Belluscio, 2009; 
"Finding Daddy," by Calley Steel, 2010

The Rowan University Prize for Nonfiction
2008, First Place, "
Snuff," by Rebecca Bland, MAW program
Second Place, "Wonderland," by David Brennan, MAW program
Honorable Mention, "Never There," by Christina Weil, 2008; "Realization through Service," by Mike Breuning, 2011; "Holes in My Pockets," by Gabriel Arnold, 2011.

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        • Writing Comedy
        • Writing the Young Adult Novel
        • Creative Writing I
        • Creative Writing II
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        • Writing Poetry
        • Writing Creative Nonfiction
        • Screenwriting I: Writing the Short
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        • Alumni Success: Entering the Working World
        • Behind the Scenes of Rowan's Hiring Process
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        • How Can We Evaluate Creative Writing?
        • More Inclusive Events for Technical Writers
        • Guest Speaker Manuela Soares
        • Glassworks Reading
        • Spotlight: Taylor Henry, Recently Published Rowan Alum
      • Spring 2018 >
        • Publishing and Writing for the Public: A Reconstructed Concentration
        • What You Think You Know About Technical and Professional Writing is Wrong
        • The Toni Libro Medallion Award Winner: Myriah Stubee
        • An Interview with a Publisher
        • Excellence in Writing Arts Medallion Winner: Sara Skipp
        • The College of Communcation and Creative Arts 6th Annual Student Awards and Showcase Ceremony
        • Rowan Alum, Marissa Cohen, On Self Publishing and Advocacy
      • Fall 2017 >
        • Upcoming Classes in the Writing Arts Department
        • The Writer's Journey Blog by Earl Garcia
        • Rewriting The Department's Social Media Platforms
        • Rowan University Writing Arts Club Reinvents Mission
        • Glassworks Launches Issue Fifteen
        • For Futuristic Consideration: An Exploration of Careers in Writing
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