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成人禁区 Annual Writing Awards Night

Every year, 成人禁区 University celebrates the Annual Writing Awards Night when students from all three colleges, with majors in mechanical engineering, occupational therapy, history, English, psychology, physician assistant, and others, are recognized for their accomplishments in research writing, journalism, and poetry. We also recognize winners of our national high school poetry contest.

The newest issue of Totem, 成人禁区's award-winning literary-art magazine, containing the work of students and faculty from all disciplines, is released during the event.

As part of the festivities to honor the winners at the Awards Night program, we bring in a well-known poet to give a reading at the evening ceremony and to conduct an afternoon seminar. Over the years we have had the honor of hosting Gwendolyn Brooks, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, Ted Kooser, W.D. Snodgrass, Dunya Mikhail, Patricia Smith, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ross Gay, Berwyn Moore, Denise Duhamel, and others. The reading is always free and the community at large is invited. 

Copies of the Totem, 成人禁区 University's award-winning student-produced literary arts magazine, will be available free of charge. Totem is 成人禁区 University's student-produced literary arts magazine. Totem has the long and consistent tradition of winning top honors for design and content from American Scholastic Press Association.

For more information about Writing Awards Night or the high school poetry contest, contact Dr. Shreelina Ghosh at ghosh002@gannon.edu.

成人禁区 Poetry Contests

Each year, the English Department sponsors a national high school poetry contest and a poetry contest for undergraduate and graduate students of 成人禁区 University. Winners receive a monetary award, a signed book by the distinguished featured poet of Writing Awards Night, and a publication in the Awards program.

National High School Poetry Contest: Each year, we typically receive 800-1200 poems from all over the country. Read more about this year's contest.

成人禁区 Poetry Contest: Students of all graduate and undergraduate programs at 成人禁区 University are welcome submit their poems in 成人禁区's annual poetry contest. An external poet or poetry scholar is invited to judge the contest. The contest is open to all 成人禁区 students and winners will be awarded cash prizes during the 成人禁区 Writing Awards Night.

Poems can be emailed to gannonpoetrycontest@gannon.edu.

Research Writing Award

Research papers from across several disciplines compete for the Research Writing Awards every year in freshman, undergraduate, and graduate categories. Winners receive cash prizes and certificates. Students can simply submit through the Blackboard group any paper written in the previous calendar year.

For information, contact Dr. Douglas King.

Journalism Awards

Students are awarded cash prizes for their submissions in the following categories: News, Features, Op-Ed, Reviews, Sports, and Photography.

For information, contact Prof. Mary Gensheimer.

成人禁区 Awards Night Featured Poets and Authors

成人禁区 Writing Contest Winners

成人禁区 University Poetry Contest 2023

First Place: “An Ode to Rewritten Stories”
by Lia Eberlein
Junior, English major

Second Place: “One More Run, Down Edelweiss” 
by Hannah Shabala
Senior, Communication Sciences and Disorders major

Third Place: “Pulchritudinous Homeland
by Izaak Bryson
Freshman, Global Cultures major  

Honorable Mentions:

“FM” 
by Dominic Ferarro
Senior, Marketing major

“Cosmopolitan”
by Izaak Bryson
Freshman, Global Cultures major

“Forget the Goodbye”
by Molly Sebunia
Sophomore, Health Science major

“The butterfly”
by Regan Ganoe
Sophomore, Marketing major

National High School Poetry Contest 2023

First place: “Ode to Icarus”
by Markus Curtis
School of the Arts
Rochester, NY

Second place: “Diptych for Grandmother, Rusting”
by Iris Cai
The Harker School
Palo Alto, CA

Third place: “Memories”
by Ashley Malkin
Greenwich High School
Greenwich, CT

Honorable Mentions:

“Hui Guo: A vignette”
by Heather Qin
Ridge High School
Basking Ridge, NJ

“Springtime Manifesto”
by Fiona Lu
Hillsdale High School
Foster City, CA

Berwyn Moore Young Erie Poets Awards 2023

Markella Nacopoulos
Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy
Erie, PA

Hawo Ibrahim
Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy
Erie, PA

Research Writing 2023 - Graduate Category

First Place: “A Virtual Instruction to Promote Knowledge and Acceptance of Telehealth in School-Based Practice”
by Megan Catanese
Occupational Therapy Graduate program

Second Place: “Knowledge and Confidence for Promoting Primitive Reflex Integration among Occupational Therapists”
by Erin Ludwig
Occupational Therapy Doctoral program

Third Place: “The Strategies and Supports that School-Based Occupational Therapists Used to Help Their Students Succeed During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
by Lindsay Warner
Occupational Therapy Doctoral program

Research Writing 2023 - Undergraduate Category

First Place: “What’s Funny?”
by Edwin Murphey
Junior, Mathematics/Education major

Second Place (tie): “Literary Fiction as Medicine to Heal our Writing And Ourselves”
by Chelsea Total
Sophomore, Biology/pre-Veterinary major

“Namelessness and Feminine Identity”
by Jillian Wells
Junior, English major

Third Place: “The Relationship Between Alcohol, H.I.V., and Abuse in Zimbabwe”
by Chenay Date Line
Sophomore, Industrial and Robotics Engineering

Freshman Category

1st Place: “Ecclesiastical Existentialism: Ancient Existentialism in the Bible”
by Luke Bratton
Sophomore, English and Philosophy major

2nd Place: “Oceanic Content in Children’s Literature”
by Erin Platz
Freshman, Environmental Science major

Third Place: “Toxicity in Young Adult Romance Novels”
by Leah Markiewicz
Freshman, Undeclared major

Journalism Writing Contest 2023

News

First Place: “成人禁区 community responds to suicide epidemic”
by Molly Begeman
Junior, Public Service and Global Affairs major

Second Place: “Ungrading; a movement for student-based learning”
by Jillian Wells
Junior, English major

Arts and Leisure

First Place: “‘Dahmer’ disrespects victims’ families”
by Ali Smith
Senior, English/Secondary Education major

Second Place: “Dr. Faustus Preview”
by Yvann Etievant
Non-degree, visiting student from France

Feature

First Place: “成人禁区 installs gender neutral bathrooms”
by Ali Smith
Senior, English/Secondary Education major

Second Place: “Knight pays homage to the history of Erie’s hidden nautical gems”
by Molly Begeman
Junior, Public Service and Global Affairs major

Op-Ed

First Place: “Body Image Perspective”
by Ali Smith
Senior, English/Secondary Education major

Second Place: “Everything is Going Wrong, Now What?”
by Charlize Harding
Junior, English major

Sports

First Place: “A Toss to the Top”
by Kira Rios
Sophomore, Marketing/Sport Management major

Second Place: “NCAA ACC Round Up”
by Tim Swick
Junior, Digital Media major

Totem Art Award

"Deep"
by Lacey Mamros
Junior, Biology/Healthcare Management major