2019
Critical Essay
Abigail Ayulo, "An Essay Regarding the Question: 'What do depictions of Robin Hood tell us about gender norms?'"
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Amelia Morgan, "Afterimage"
2018
Critical Essay
Brevin Anderson, "Youssef''s Poverty: Homed and 'Unmoored' Identities in Post-Colonial Fiction"
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Hannah Martin, Untitled
2017
Critical Essay
Acacia Protsman, "'Watched--Observed--Reflected': Anne's Character Development in Persuasion"
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Savannah Hadley, "Home Made"
2016
Critical Essay
Hallie Brinkman, "For Society's Sake: Words, Wit and Courtesy in Much Ado About Nothing"
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Anna Carlson, "Stagnancy and a Feast"
Kelsey Lacanilao, "What Shines From Here"
2015
Critical Essay
Sam Ernest, “A Post-Victorian Petri Dish: Sexuality and Gender in the Bloomsbury Group”
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Haley Stokes,“On Place ”
2014
Critical Essay
Kayla Chronister, “Waiting for Rain: The Fisher King and Fertility in T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’”
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Brenda Ray, “The Most Beautiful Thing”
2013
Critical Essay
Sara Kenning, “Austen in Autumn: A Seasonal Perspective on Persuasion”
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Danielle Myers, “Hobbits and Headlights”
2012
Critical Essay
Jessica Beebe, “Models of an Ethical Reality in David Copperfield, North and South, and The War of the Worlds”
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Rebecca Reid, “Gearhart”
2011
2010
Critical Essay
Amanda Stevens, “Drama of Power in Jane Eyre”
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Tyler McCabe, “Something Comes Through”
2009
2008
2007
Critical Essay
Christy Wold, “Of Skylarks and Thrushes: Ecstatic Carols and Death in ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’ and ‘The Darkling Thrush’”
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Christopher Caldwell, "At Home