Congratulations to the 2025 Creative Writing Scholarship Winners!

The Creative Writing Department is happy to announce the 2025 Scholarship winners! Competition was fierce, and we are proud of our winners! 

Congratulations to our Spring 2025 Award Winners; 

Angeles Alva Villatoro for the Dorothy Bryant Prize in Creative Writing!
 Cindy Luu for the Marsha Lee & Norman M. Berkman Endowed Scholarship in Creative Writing

Congratulations to our Fall 2025 Award Winners! 

Congratulations to Sierra Warrick for the Clark-Gross Award in the Novel
If, by some accident of time and space, you encountered your pink-haired teenage self on a beach, would you take her in? Would you let her look at you in your current form with all the fire, pain, revolt, and resistance that helped you both survive, and take your measure? Would you be ready to go through what she went through, and reintegrate her into your heart, even if it meant going back to that place and that time? Time To Lose is a dual timeline novel set in the present, on a road trip, and in an intensive psychiatric unit for teenagers. Exquisitely and compassionately written, Time To Lose invites you readers to consider resilience, care, institutions, and what it means to survive and maybe even forgive. Runner-Up Jie Liu for Dual Reality
 Congratulations to for the James Milton Highsmith Drama Award
Congratulations to Judas Wiley for the Daniel Langton Poetry Prize
"These poems are beautiful, surprising love poems against the din."
Congratulations to Jessica Loraine Smith for the Elizabeth June Madden-Zibman Scholarship
"Sophisticated scene building, characterization, and dialogue." 
Congratulations to Gwendolyn Hicks and Jie Liu for the Marcus Second Year Graduate Student Scholarship!
Congratulations to Jade Dean for the Kathryn A. Manoogian Scholarship
Congratulations to Sophia Elena Escajeda for the Joan Gelfand Creative Writing Scholarship