2014-2015

Cardinal Cushing Award—for the best fiction published in a Boston College undergraduate publication:

  • First Place to Patricia Owens, "The Royal City Theological Society" (Spring '15 Stylus)
  • Second Place to Sophia Valesca Görgens, "The Prime Time of Your Life" (Spring '15 Stylus)
  • Third Place to Michelle Tomassi, "The Ones"  from The Medical Humanities Journal of Boston College (Vol. 1, 2015)

Dever Fellowship—a substantial grant in honor of Margaret and Joseph Dever, to a graduating senior who proposes to pursue a career in writing:

  • Sameet Dhillon

Dever Award for Freshman Writing—for the best essay written by a freshman in any English course:

  • First Place: John Hogan, "Don Draper: Dying from the Moment He was Born,” nominated by Caroline Barta
  • Second Place: Michael Sullivan, "Not Your Grandpa's Baseball," nominated by
    Brian Zimmerman
  • Third Place: John Knowles, "'Haply I think on thee': Transcendence Realized in Shakespeare's ‘Sonnet 29’," nominated by Laura Tanner

William A. Kean Memorial Award—to the graduating senior judged to be the outstanding English major:

  • Emily Simon

Bishop Kelleher Award—for the best poetry published in a 㽶 undergraduate publication:

  • First place: Christine Degenaars, "Have a Drink of Water,” The Medical Humanities Journal of Boston College (Vol. 1, 2015)
  • Second place: Sophia Valesca Görgens, "Dry Fire" (Laughing Medusa 2015)
  • Third place: Kwesi Aaron, "More Than Blonde" (Spring ‘15ٲܲ)
  • Honorable Mention: Jennifer Heine, "Boston." (Fall '14 Stylus)

Denis A. McCarthy Prize—for best piece of creative writing by a junior or senior:

  • First Place: Sameet Dhillon(ھپDz)
  • Second Place: Eleanor Hildenbrandt (poetry)
  • Third Place: Michelle Tomassi (fiction)

John Randall Award—a gift of books presented in honor and memory of author and 㽶 Professor John Randall to the undergraduate writer of the best essay on American literature and culture:

  • Emily Simon, for “Technology is lust removed from nature”:  The Shifting Sensorium of Mortality in Don DeLillo’s White Noise"