ANN ARBOR—Six Hopwood awards and two Marjorie Rapaport Awards in Poetry, totaling $5,700 and $600 respectively, were presented in the 65th Summer Hopwood Contest at the University of Michigan. The Summer Hopwood Contest is open to all students taking writing courses during spring and summer term. The summer contest is one of several Hopwood contests held throughout the year. The Hopwood Awards were created through the gift of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the class of 1905, given to the U-M for the encouragement of creative work in writing. The Marjorie Rapaport Award is given by Rapaport’s mother in her memory. The terms of this gift stipulate that the poems “shall exemplify the new, unusual and the radical.” Judges for the contest were Nicholas Harp and Lauren Kingsley of the Department of English. Laurence Goldstein, also of the Department of English, presented the awards on Sept. 20.

Award winners are:

• MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR — Ariya Kelly, LSA class of 2003, was awarded a Hopwood prize of $1,000 in the fiction category for “The Pool and The Grandmother.” Jennifer Metsker, LSA non-degree student, was awarded a Hopwood prize of $600 in the fiction category for “Teenage Angst and Swan Dive,” and a Marjorie Rapaport Award of $350 for “The Genuine Thing: All Bark, All Bite.” 
• BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Rachel Lewis, LSA class of 2004, was awarded a Marjorie Rapaport Award of $250 for “The Roots of West Virginia.”
• GRAND BLANC — Benson Varghese, LSA class of 2003, was awarded a Hopwood prize of $800 in the poetry category for “Memory and Absence.”
• SAGINAW — Johanna Wetmore, LSA class of 2003, was awarded a Hopwood prize of $1,250 in the essay category for “The Momentum of Trains.”
• SOUTHFIELD — Jennifer Strausz, LSA summer graduate, was awarded a Hopwood prize of $1,250, in the essay category for “The Soaking Lesson and Other Essays.”
• ARIZONA TUCSON — Brian Yetwin, LSA May graduate, was awarded a Hopwood prize of $800 in the poetry category for “On the Heels of Giants.”