Announcing the 2024 UC Writing Award Winners

The College hosted four 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.

Here are this year's winners:

Norma Epstein Foundation Awards in Creative Writing:

First prize:

Ella MacCormack, "Surviving Kid Dracula " (other prose)

Second prizes:

Nghi  Nguyen, "Elegy For My Twin Brother, the Green-winged Macaw" (short story)

Danielle Cryer, "Thread, Unravelling" (short story)

Third prizes:

Maryann Chen, "Between Vega and Altair" (other prose)

Atlas Young, Always, you (poetry)

Frederic Davidson Competition:

First prize:

Lillian Luan, "Straddling Tu and Yang: Mass Mobilization and Unsettled Identities in Zhang Wenjun's Meishan Reservoir" (academic essay)

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

Jenny Liu, "Lucas" (poetry)

Lorne Tepperman Prize in Public Writing:

No winner for 2024

Past UC and National Norma Epstein Award winners include 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.

Congratulations to this year's winners!