Announcing the 2023 UC Writing Award Winners

The College hosted four local writing competitions open to UC and UC program students as part of the annual UC Writing Awards: the Meyer (Mike) Greenstein Memorial Student Award for Writing Excellence, the Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing, the Frederic Davidson Competition, and the Lorne Tepperman Prize in Public Writing.

It also hosted the biennial Norma Epstein National Award for Creative Writing, which is open to undergraduate and graduate students from across Canada.

Here are this year's winners:

Annual UC Writing Awards

Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing:

First prizes:

Cheryl Lee, "Exchange" (short story)(drama)

Selena Mercuri, "Hoop Earrings" (short story)

Second prizes:

Jenny Liu, "This Town" (poetry)

Skye Tulay, "The Namess Decision Maker - A Refugee Memoir" (other prose)

Frederic Davidson Competition:

First prize:

Akshay Goodrich Dua, "Rewilding in the High Seas: Exploring Proactive International Oceanic Governance" (academic essay)

Second prize:

Robert-Avraham Sloane, "Ockham’s First Proof, and the Denial of Truly Contrary Desires" (academic essay)

Third prize:

Annalies Smith, "Barbie Girls in a Barbie World: The Construction of a Woman-Centred Universe as a Site of Feminist Resistance in the Barbie Straight-to-DVD Movies" (academic essay)

Meyer (Mike) Greenstein Memorial Student Award for Writing Excellence:

Aylin (Oyan) Salahshoor, THE SINGULAR SUBJECT, THE “I.” (drama)

Lorne Tepperman Prize in Public Writing:

No winner for 2023.

Biennial Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing: National Literary Contest for University Students

First prizes:

Zak Jones, University of Toronto, "Love Handles" (short story)

Jamie Michaels, University of Calgary, "Phénakisticope" (short story)

Second prizes:

Jillian Clasky, University of Ottawa, Speedily and Very Soon and other poems (poetry)

Misha Solomon, Concordia University, "Oviparity" (short story)

Third prizes:

Eliza Ives, University of New Brunswick, "Protection" (short story)

Clio Lake, University of British Columbia, Moonstaking (drama)

Congratulations to this year's winners!

They join a group of past award winners including David Adams Richards, Barbara Amiel, Stephanie Bolster, David Cronenberg, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Michelle Landsberg, Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje, James Reaney, Colleen Thibaudeau, and Miriam Waddington.