ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan announced winners of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards during the 2016 Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony at Rackham Auditorium.

The awards are funded by a bequest from Avery Hopwood, a 1905 graduate and successful Broadway playwright, and Jule Hopwood, his mother. Past winners include Arthur Miller, John Ciardi and Marge Piercy.

The winners—including those designated with (*) for multiple awards—include:

HOPWOOD DRAMA

• *Christin Lee, a class of 2016 MFA Student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ann Arbor, for “Succor the Buffalo,” $6,500.
• *Warner James Wood, a class of 2016 MFA Student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Blue Ridge, Ga., for “Good Boy,” $9,000.

HOPWOOD NOVEL

• *Menachem Kaiser, a class of 2016 MFA Student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ann Arbor, for “Aggadatas,” $8,500.
• *Clarisse Baleja Saidi, a class of 2017 MFA Student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ann Arbor, for “We Begged,” $8,500.

HOPWOOD SCREENPLAY

• Alexander Bernard, a class of 2016 LSA English and Political Science major from Clinton Township, Mich., for “Someone Anyone,” $2,000.
• Clare Higgins, a class of 2017 LSA Screen Arts and Cultures and Creative Writing and Literature major from Ann Arbor, for “Hindsight,” $2,000.
• *Kristen Batko, a class of 2016 LSA Screen Arts and Cultures and Screenwriting major from Rochester, Mich., for “Murdering Mr. Hendry,” $9,500.

HOPWOOD UNDERGRADUATE NONFICTION

• *Graham Techler, a class of 2016 School of Music, Theatre & Dance Theatre Performance major from Newton, Mass., for “The Bollocks!” $3,000.
• Lauren Wood, a class of 2016 LSA English and Screen Arts and Cultures major from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., for “Black and White,” $3,000.
• Giancarlo Buonomo, a class of 2016 LSA Comparative Literature major from Concord, Mass., for “Ancient Cures, Home Cures,” $4,000.
• *Sam Gringlas, a class of 2016 School of Public Policy Public Policy major from Ann Arbor, for “Substratum,” $7,000.

HOPWOOD GRADUATE NONFICTION

• Elizabeth Ward Dickey, a class of 2016 MFA Student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Greenport, N.Y., for “Women on Target and Help Her,” $1,500.
• *Hannah Louise Poston, a class of 2016 MFA Student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ann Arbor, for “Two Essays,” $8,000.
• *Clarisse Baleja Saidi for “How We Cultivate Grief,” $8,500.

HOPWOOD UNDERGRADUATE SHORT FICTION

• Scott Hardin, a class of 2018 Residential College History major from Williamsburg, Mich., for “Archie Park and Other Stories,” $3,500.
• *Karen Duan, a class of 2017 Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Architecture major from Ann Arbor, for “Paper House, Paper Home,” $4,000.
• *Jenny Wang, a class of 2016 LSA English and Computer Science major from Ann Arbor, for “I Know My Mother’s Achilles’ Heel,” $6,500.

HOPWOOD GRADUATE SHORT FICTION

• *Christin Lee for “Canyons,” $3,000.
• *Menachem Kaiser for “Two Stories: Metaphrasis and Afterword,” $6,500.
• *Joshua Garfinkel, a class of 2016 MFA Student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ypsilanti, for “Why Shaya Eats and Zev and Mendel,” $8,500.

HOPWOOD UNDERGRADUATE POETRY

• Marie Michels, a class of 2016 LSA English major from Spring Lake, Mich., for “Pope Joan and Small Town Hoax,” $3,000.
• Gavin Gao, a class of 2016 LSA English Language and Literature major from Ann Arbor, for “Sail on, Seamstress,” $3,500.
• *Vivian Jiang, a class of 2016 LSA Economics major from Rochester Hills, Mich., for “sometimes i can feel it in the room with me,” $6,500.

HOPWOOD GRADUATE POETRY

• *Danez Smith, a class of 2017 MFA student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ann Arbor, for “If America Doesn’t Want You Dead & bloodnectar,” $1,500.
• Hanae Jonas, a class of 2016 MFA student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ann Arbor, for “Northern Gothic,” $2,500.
• *Hannah Louise Poston for “The Coast,” $4,500.
• *Francis Santana, a class of 2016 MFA student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ann Arbor, for “Legion,” $8,500.

HOPWOOD AWARD THEODORE ROETHKE PRIZE FOR THE LONG POEM OR POETIC SEQUENCE

• Lizzie Hutton, a doctoral candidate in the Joint Ph.D. Program in English and Education from Ann Arbor, for “Boxes,” $2,500.
• *Danez Smith for “summer, somewhere,” $2,500.

ANDREA BEAUCHAMP PRIZE (Graduate Short Fiction division)

• *Joshua Garfinkel for “Why Shaya Eats and Zev and Mendel,” $1,100.

FRANK AND GAIL BEAVER SCRIPTWRITING PRIZE

• *Daniel Plagens, a class of 2016 LSA Screen Arts and Cultures major from Rochester Hills, Mich., for “Perception,” $1,300.

CHAMBERLAIN AWARD FOR CREATIVE WRITING

• Austin Gorsuch, a class of 2017 MFA student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Grand Rapids, Mich., for “The Story Is Seven Simple Machines,” $1,800.
• Samuel Jensen, a class of 2017 MFA student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ypsilanti, for “Aperture,” $1,800.

HELEN J. DANIELS PRIZE

• *Sam Gringlas for “Substratum,” $3,000.

GEOFFREY JAMES GOSLING PRIZE

• *Menachem Kaiser for “Aggadatas,” $850.

PAUL AND SONIA HANDLEMAN POETRY AWARD

• *Vivian Jiang for “sometimes i can feel it in the room with me,” $3,000.

ROBERT F. HAUGH PRIZE

• *Jenny Wang for “I Know My Mother’s Achilles’ Heel,” $2,800.

KASDAN SCHOLARSHIP IN CREATIVE WRITING

• Eric Grant-Frankel, a class of 2017 LSA Screen Arts and Cultures major from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., for “Paris ‘l’aube, or Paris at Dawn,” $1,500.
• *Warner James Wood for “Wrecked,” $7,000.

DENNIS MCINTYRE PRIZE FOR DISTINCTION IN UNDERGRADUATE PLAYWRITING

• Stuart Richardson, a class of 2016 LSA German and International and Comparative Studies major from Alpena, Mich., for “Ruthie,” $3,800.
• *Graham Techler for “The Kid Cult Cosmology: A Coming of Space-Age Play,” $3,800.

MEADER FAMILY AWARD

• Molly Dickinson, a class of 2017 MFA student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ann Arbor, for “Nonlinear Pursuit,” $2,100.
• Amanda Rybin Koob, a class of 2016 MFA student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ypsilanti, for “Molt,” $2,100.
• Courtney Faye Taylor, a class of 2017 MFA student in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program from Ann Arbor, for “2031,” $2,100.

ARTHUR MILLER AWARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CLUB OF NEW YORK SCHOLARSHIP FUND

• Annie Turpin, a class of 2018 Stamps School of Art & Design Design major from Sherman Oaks, Calif., for “Figures,” $2,700.

LEONARD AND EILEEN NEWMAN WRITING PRIZES
In Dramatic Writing:

• *Graham Techler for “Brae Burn,” $1,250
• Daniel Plagens for “Sacked,” $1,250.

In Fiction:

• Sabrina Deutsch, a class of 2018 LSA Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience major from Cherry Hill, N.J., for “Light as Lithium,” $1,250.
• San Pham, a class of 2016 Residential College Creative Writing and Literature major from Whitmore Lake, Mich., for “Eating Oceans,” $1,250.

NAOMI SAFERSTEIN LITERARY AWARD

• *Kristen Batko for “Murdering Mr. Hendry,” $1,300.

STANLEY S. SCHWARTZ PRIZE

• *Karen Duan for “Paper House, Paper Home,” $600.

HELEN S. AND JOHN WAGNER PRIZE

• *Francis Santana for “Legion,” $1,100.

JOHN WAGNER PRIZE

• *Clarisse Baleja Saidi for “How We Cultivate Grief,” $1,100.