2011 McKinney Writing Contest Winners
We have both a graduate and an undergraduate competition. In each competition, students vie for three prizes in four categories. Prize amounts may vary according to quality, at the discretion of the judges.
Fiction/Drama
Undergraduate
$300.00 First Prize Undergraduate Fiction/Drama
Sameer Sajid
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Title: "Generational Wisdom"
$175.00 Co-Second Prize Undergraduate Fiction/Drama
Robert Ferris
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Title: "Just One"
$175.00 Co-Second Prize Undergraduate Fiction/Drama
Julian Eden
Major: Electrical Engineering
Title: " And the Vision Still Remains"
$75.00 Third Prize Undergraduate Fiction/Drama
Travis A. King
Major: Aeronautical & Mechanical Engineering (Mane)
Title: "Brute"
Graduate
$300.00 First Prize Graduate Fiction/Drama
Michael Rancourt
Major: Communication and Rhetoric/Language, Literature, and Communication
Title: "Ceaselessly Growing"
$175.00 Second Prize Graduate Fiction/Drama
Benjamin Scheiner
Major: Materials Engineering
Title: "On the rise of Cybernetics: Excerpted from the Bigs Compendium of Technologic Events"
$75.00 Third Prize Graduate Fiction/Drama
Kevin A. Thayer
Major: Communication and Rhetoric/Language, Literature, and Communication
Title: "The Shivering Mathematician's Wish"
Poetry
Undergraduate
$300.00 First Prize Undergraduate Poetry
Katherine Blum
Major: Communication/Hass
Title: "Uphill, Both Ways" – "Spit Shine"
$175.00 Second Prize Undergraduate Poetry
Nowell Closser
Major: Mathematics
Title: "Assorted Poems" - "I turned the Heat on for her"
$75.00 Third Prize Undergraduate Poetry
Timothy Tusing
Major: Mathematics/Economics
Title: "Violence, Violence" – "Travis T"
Graduate
$300.00 First Prize Graduate Poetry
Michael Rancourt
Major: Cmrt, Language, Literature, and Communication
Title: "Length and Breadth: a Selection of Poems"
$175.00 Second Prize Graduate Poetry
Kevin A. Thayer
Major: Communication & Rhetoric/Language, Literature, and Communication
Title: "Star-Dwellers"
$75.00 Third Prize Graduate Poetry
Brendan Neschke
Major: Mathematics
Title: "With Verne and Sir Drake"
Essay
Undergraduate
$300.00 First Prize Undergraduate Essay
Hannah Dym
Major: Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication
Title: "Blogging About Lost: The use of Postmodern Theology in Decoding Compelling Narrative Complexity"
$175.00 Second Prize Undergraduate Essay
Alexander C. Bringsjord
Major: Dual: Business Management & Philosophy/Minor Psychology
Title: "The Objection to Utilitarianism and Ethical Egoism; and the Argument therefore for Deontological Ethics from Sex Trafficking and Prostitution"
$75.00 Third Prize Undergraduate Essay
Delphine Chia-Pinn Tseng
Major: Science and Technology Studies
Title: "An Open Letter to President Shirley Ann Jackson"
Graduate
$300.00 First Prize Graduate Essay
Lisa Litterio
Major: Cmrt, Language, Literature, and Communication
Title: "From Wac To Rac: Reforming the Writing across the Curriculum Program Towards a Rhetoric of Transdisciplinarity"
Electronic Media
Undergraduate
$300.00 First Prize Undergraduate Electronic Media
Aileen Sheedy
Major: Computer Science/EMAC
Title: "Love Story"
$175.00 Second Prize Undergraduate Electronic Media
Chayut Napombejara
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Title: "You Pissed on my Shrine"
Graduate
$300.00 First Prize Graduate Electronic Media
Nicholas Chase
Major: Integrated Electronic Arts
Title: "11 Ideas about People & Stuff"
$175.00 Second Prize Graduate Electronic Media
Clara Tomaz (Prize Accepted By Her Husb and & 2 Sons)
Major: MFA in Electronic Arts
Title: "Deviations and Straight Line"
$75.00 Third Prize Graduate Electronic Media
Helen "Ellie" Markovitch
Major: Electronic Arts MFA Candidate
Title: "Flavors of Times Past"