Skip Content
  • Student Life
  • Give
  • News

    Happening in and around the College.

    April 24, 2017

    Le Moyne Student Newhouse Award Winners Announced

    The Newhouse Writing Awards honor the best writing by student authors in multiple genres with a prize of $325 each – the largest amount ever. Each winning title was selected by a judge who is an expert in his/her field, through a blind judging process.

    The awards will be formally presented on Tuesday, May 2, in the Reilley Room at 6:30 p.m. - at the beginning of the spring student creative writing reading. At this event a program will provide the judges' names and citations - they had difficult decisions to make and crafted eloquent testimonials for the award-winning works.

    Le Moyne students who won awards this year are:

    Creative Non-fiction Award: Amari Pollard
    for “Nostalgia Causes Surge in Vinyl Sales”

    Critical Essay Award: Jonathan Roberts
    for “Eternal Hallways and Victimized Tenants: The Haunted House as a Psychological Space”

    Play or Film/TV Script Award: Shayla Brumfield
    for “Sink”

    Poetry Award: Sebaah Hamad
    for “On Edge”

    Short Fiction Award: Alyssa Reagan
    for “First”

    Any Genre Award #1: Ellen Murphy  
    for her story “Hair”

    Any Genre Award #2: Amari Pollard
    for her poem “The Professor’s House”
    Category: Press Releases Tags: