2023-2024 Writing Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of the 31st Annual UCI Writing Awards!
The winners will be honored in a Writing Awards Ceremony on Thursday, May 16, 2024, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Humanities Gateway 1030.
The John Hollowell Composition Program Awards
Navya M. Gowda
Instructor: Jennifer Geraci, Writing 40 & 45 Assistant Course Director, Department of English
Writing 40 (Intro to Writing and Rhetoric) Exemplary ePortrolio Award
Yunuo (Daisy) Ma
Instructor: Tagert Ellis, Lecturer, Department of English
Jaanika Velliste
Instructor: Louise McCune, Associate Instructor, Department of English
Divya Boora
Instructor: Javiera Letelier, Lecturer, Department of English
Writing 60 (Argument and Research) Exemplary ePortfolio Award
The Nora Folkenflik Memorial Essay Awards
Lexus Clark
Instructor: Cole Morgan, Assistant Professor, Department of English
Best Essay in English 15 Course
Simon Li
Instructor: Susan Morse, Lecturer, Humanities Core
Best Essay in Humanities Core Course
Brianna Smith
Instructor: Natasha Synycia, Lecturer, Humanities Core
The Humanities Core Outstanding Website Project in Multimodal Writing Award
Sammy Ismet Merabet
Instructor: Claire Watkins, Professor, Department of English
The Ariel Miranda Caldwell Memorial Short Story Award
Celeste Webb
Elaine Vinh
Clarissa Gao
The James McMichael Prize for Excellence in Poetry
Brian Hoang Nguyen
Instructor: Annie McClanahan, Associate Professor, Department of English
Jasmine Desai
Instructor: Amy Wilentz, Professor, Department of English
The Literary Journalism Writing Award
The Upper-Division Writing Awards
Sky Hayden
Instructor: Kyle Grady, Assistant Professor, Department of English
Award for Excellent Upper-Division Academic Writing in Humanities and Arts
Sergio Guil
Instructor: Judith Stepan-Norris, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology
Meili Soriano
Instructor: Celia Symons, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Award for Excellent Upper-Division Academic Writing in Science and Technology
Babak Azadgilani
Instructor: Judith Stepan-Norris, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology
Award for Best Public or Professional Writing
Matt Sereno
English 105: American Indian Autobiography with Alicia Carroll English 16: The Craft of Poetry with Rebecca Schultz Literary Journalism 103: The Literature of Memoir with Amy Wilentz Literary Journalism 101: The History and Ethics of Literary Journalism with Barry Siegel and Bridget Winifred O’Reilly