University of Michigan announces Hopwood winners

October 16, 2003
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ANN ARBOR—Six University of Michigan students split $7,700 in prizes during the 66th Summer Hopwood Contest and the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry. The Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing are the nation’s oldest contests for student writers.

The awards are funded by a bequest from Avery Hopwood, a 1905 U-M graduate and successful Broadway playwright, and Jule Hopwood, his mother. Past winners include Arthur Miller, John Ciardi and Marge Piercy. The contests were judged by Paul Barron and Jennifer Lutman of the U-M English Department.Winners of the Summer Hopwood Awards and the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry, listed by hometown, are:

MICHIGAN Ann Arbor Sarah Worden, a senior, was a triple winner, winning $800 in the Summer Hopwood Drama Screenplay category for “Double Feature,” $1,500 in the Summer Hopwood Fiction contest for “Points of Reference,” and $1,250 in the Summer Hopwood Poetry category for “New England Authors & A Michigan Girl: Prose Poems.” Farrah Sarafa, a junior, won $250 from The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry.

Clarkston Tom Wisniewski, a junior, won $350 from The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for “Olive.”

Kalamazoo Joseph J. W. Keckler, a senior, $1,500 in the Summer Hopwood Essay Contest for “TNT: Dynamics and Featured Selections at Save-a-Lot.”

Royal Oak Kerry Russell, a senior, won $800 in the Summer Hopwood Drama/Screenplay category for “Uluru”

MARYLAND

Lutherville Andrew Henry Kline, a junior, won $1,250 in the Summer Hopwood Poetry category for “Twilight: A heart tattooed in gold across grandpa’s forearm.”