Writing Competition Winners

2022-23 WGS Writing Competition Winners

First Place:

Alexa Krauth, “Why It Is Important for Women to Be in Politics”

Second Place:

Cari Gamlin, “The Construction of the Woman Frankenstein: How the Perfect Woman Is Created in the Early Modern Period”

Third Place:

Charnay Hatten, “Sexuality and Political Power”

First Place:

Cari Gamlin, “I Came from Soil”

Second Place:

Jeremy St. Martin, “The Queer Monologues”

Third Place:

Aly Porcerelli, “All I Want”

First Place:

Sam Lickey, “Nicotine in the Car” (personal essay)

Second Place:

Kenia Contreras, “Not All Are Bastards” (short story)

Third Place:

Sam Gillmore, “Women Belong In the Kitchen” (personal essay)

Honorable Mention:

Kristel Hope Ndakwe, “The Flowers: A Creative Imitation of Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Mark on the Wall’” (short story)

First: Sabine Ducharme, “The Evolution of Woman and Gender Inequality in Architecture”

Second: Nurzahan Rahman, “The Opposition to Conformity through Queen Elizabeth’s Rhetoric”

Third: Olivia Huszti, “Feminist Philosophy and Pragmatism”

First: Jency Shaji, “With Age” and other poems

Second: Sarah Ko, “Almond Eyes” and other poems

First: Nurzahan Rahman, “Silent Stories”

Second: TIED: Jency Shaji, “The Best Thing I Never Had” & Erin Letourneau, “The Girls in the Villages”

Third: Sabine Ducharme, “Personal Essay”