Congratulations to our 2021 winners!
2021 Hopwood Award Winners
Drama
David Freeman, “Godzilla vs. The Cold Dead Heart of the Universe”
Zoha Bharwani, “370”
Sarah Cripsey, “CINDER: A Pantomime”
Novel
Anna Majeski, “The Disquiet”
Maya Dobjensky, “In the Language of Birds”
Nathan John, “Novel”Lauren Morrow, “Whatever You Want, It’s Yours”
Screenplay
Phoebe Danaher, “The Millertown Vessel”
Darina Sikmashvili, “Bitter”
Alexander Wagner, “Inquisitor”
Fiction
First- and Second-Year
Steve Liu, “Two Stories”
Francisco Fiori, "Inside Outside USA" and "Country"
Jessica Kwon, “Taegeukgi” (4,2)
Undergraduate
Fareah Fysudeen, “Daffodils, Ayesha and Mohammad”
Benjamin Biber, “To Be Kind”
Rebecca Wyeth, “Augur North” and “Out to the Western Earth”
Willa Hart, “The Gay Club Ghost”
Graduate
Lauren Morrow, “Everyday Tips for Becoming a Star” and “Constellations”
Kashona Notah, “A Falling Star”, “Betty Page and Jimmy Freebird”, “Interviews”Chloe Alberta, “The Best Electrician in Des Moines”
Nathan John, “Each Night” and “Child Soldier”
Nonfiction
First- and Second-Year
Jingqi Zhu, “And the Stories Echo”, “Meadow”
Darby Williams, “The Stone Women of Salt Lake”, “Fossils”, and “Basil-Eyed Boy”
Julia Guida, “Free Hugs, Anyone?” and “Aria of a Youngest Child”
Undergraduate
Caitlyn Zawideh, “Two Essays About Dreams”
Annie Ning, “Visiting Yingxiu”
Ellie Katz, "Total Eclipse of the American West" & "Grapefruit" & "Blood on Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement" & "Dreams of Dalí"
Rachel McKimmy, A Pandemic Summer's Reflections in Nature: “What the Stream Means” and “Stone Fly”
Graduate
Darina Sikmashvili, “Billy” and “This Is What I Have to Show for Life”Matthew Wamser, “Lost Birds of the Pacific”
Bassam Sidiki, “On Growth” and “Uninvited Guests”
Poetry
First- and Second-Year
Nicole Tooley, “U-Turns”Yumna Dagher, “Poems for Appoline Street”
Olivia Evans, “Boy Heaven”
Undergraduate
Sebastien Butler, “Tornado Waltz”
Kennedi Killips, “in this one, I lose everything”
Aaron Berry, The “American”-ization of Francis Lopez”
Graduate
Mary Spooner, “Interior Weather”Carlina Duan, “Blades of Grace”
Julia McDaniel, “Hush” Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize
David Freeman, “Poltergeister”
Other Awards and Prizes Administered by the Hopwood Awards Program
Academy of American Poets Prize
Undergraduate Division
Aelita Klausmeier, “Butter Bird”
Graduate Division
Julia McDaniel, “To Raise a Daughter”
Andrea Beauchamp Prize
Lauren Morrow, “Everyday Tips for Becoming a Star” and “Constellations”
Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize
David Freeman, “All Saints' Day”
Caroline New, “Spontaneous Generation, as spiritual practice”
Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing
Dur e Aziz, “Café May” and “You Get What is Yours”
Catalina Bode, “A Marriage”
Urvi Kumbhat, “Belly Song” and “Girls I've Known”
Cora Duncan Award in Fiction
Rebecca Wyeth, “Augur North”
David Porter Award for Excellence in Journalism
Madeleine Ross, “Zero Waste Living in a Global Pandemic”
Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting
Zoha Bharwani, “370”
Sarah Cripsey, “CINDER: A Pantomime”
Geoffrey James Gosling Prize
Anna Majeski, “The Disquiet”
Maya Dobjensky, “In the Language of Birds”
Helen J. Daniels Prize
Caitlyn Zawideh, “Two Essays About Dreams”
Helen S. and John Wagner Prize
Mary Spooner, “Interior Weather”
Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry
Olivia Evans, “Tsaritsa’s goldspinner is tried for witchcraft”
Aelita Klausmeier, “Duplex”
John Wagner Prize
Darina Sikmashvili, “Billy” and “This Is What I Have to Show for Life”
Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing
Justin Chung, “The Shinjuku Cut”Sophia Raines, “PW…I?”
Darina Sikmashvili, “Bitter”
Keith Taylor Award for Excellence in Poetry
Kennedi Killips, “in this one, I lose everything”
Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Dramatic Writing
Brandon Troeller, “Only Trees Hear The Silence”
Sophia Raines, “PW...I?”
Nick Lemaster, “A Bump Named Andy”
Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Fiction
Kellie Beck, “Once”
Destiny Wu, “Chalk Castles”
Myles Murphy, “Cuttlefish Diary, Mason, and the Cube”
Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry
Hiba Dagher, “little divinities on 13355 hemlock st”
Avery Fessenden, “The First Sign”
Meader Family Award
Robert Laidler, “Hereditary”
Catherine Valdez, “Apocalypse And Other Gardens”
Abigail McFee, “Season of Premonitions”
Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry
monét cooper, “in search of ancestry in the Census record or, also, cane”
Olivia Brown, “IF YOU HIT A DEER HARD ENOUGH”
Naomi Saferstein Literary Award
Phoebe Danaher, “The Millertown Vessel”
Paul and Sonia Handleman Award
Sebastien Butler, “Tornado Waltz”
Peter Phillip Pratt Award in Fiction
Meghan Chou, “Calypso”Jena Vallina, “Tree Hugger”
Robert F. Haugh Prize
Fareah Fysudeen, “Daffodils, Ayesha and Mohammad”
Roy and Helen Meador Award
Nicole Tooley, “U-Turns”
Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship
Jena Vallina, “Selah”
Alejandro Derieux-Cerezo, “Rubbernecking”Arjun Thakkar, “In Good Health: An Unmasked Tribute to Millions”
Penny Kane, “Non-fiction Collection”
Ashley Mcintosh, “Scattered Collection”
Stanley S. Schwartz Prize
Benjamin Biber, “To Be Kind”
Hopwood Winners 1931-present
For a list of all Hopwood Award winners, as well as all Hopwood-administered contests and prizes, click the button below (link will download an excel spreadsheet). This list was last updated August 2019.
