Students receive Summer Hopwood Awards

August 17, 1995
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ANN ARBOR—”Four students at the University of Michigan have received Summer Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing, while two others were given the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry, also administered by the U-M Hopwood program.

Funded by a bequest from U-M alumnus and Broadway playwright Avery Hopwood, the 58th annual Summer Hopwood Contest bestows awards in fiction, essay, poetry and drama/screenplay categories.

Winners of the Summer Hopwood Awards and the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry, listed by hometown, are:

MICHIGAN:

ANN ARBOR— David I. Rothbart, senior, $100 for the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for ” When Jim Died.”

BLOOMFIELD HILLS” Gordon L. Smith, junior, $300 in the Hopwood fiction category for ” Bloodline Sonata.”

LANSING” Howard Kim, senior, $350 in the Hopwood poetry category for ” Read My Lips, No New Ideas.”

YPSILANTI” Inci Sayman, senior, $450 in the Hopwood essay category for ” Wonder Woman” and $300 in the Hopwood fiction category for ” Allergy Season and Genoise.”

OUT-OF-STATE:

CONNECTICUT: FAIRFIELD” Kristen Okosky, senior, $75 for the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for ” Airport Song.”

MISSOURI: ST. LOUIS” Emily Singer, junior, $250 in the Hopwood poetry category for ” Images of Adolescence.”