2013 AwardsEnglish

Outstanding Graduate Student Awards

• Jay Ivey
• Kate Partridge
• Chrissy Widmayer

Sven Eric Molin Award

The Sven Eric Molin Prize provides an award in funds toward the education of a continuing graduate student in English of exceptional merit. 

• Shannon Foley

Robert Karlson Award

The Robert Karlson prize provides a monetary award to the year's outstanding graduate student in the English Department's MA programs.

• Danielle DeArment-Donohue

MFA Thesis Fellowship in Poetry

• Amber Cook

MFA Thesis Fellowship in Fiction

• Alex Henderson

MFA Thesis Fellowship in Nonfiction

• Kyle Giacommozi

Dan Rudy Fiction Prize

The Dan Rudy Fiction Prize for a single short story of 20 double-spaced pages or less.

• Jay Ivey

Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Prize

The Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Prize for a single short story of 20 doubled-spaced pages or less.

• Lindsey Johnson
• Erin McDaniel
• Katrina Smith

Mary Roberts Rinehart Fiction Award

• Jay Ivey
• Katrina Smith

Mary Roberts Rinehart Nonfiction Award

• Stephanie Liberatore
• Stephanie Liberatore

Mary Roberts Rinehart Poetry Award

• Catee Baugh
• Kate Partridge

MFA Honors Awards

• Benjamin Page
• Spencer Seward

Outstanding Graduating Senior in Honors

• Shawn McElhinney

James L. Jackson Award

The James L. Jackson Prize provides funds to support the education at George Mason of a continuing undergraduate major in English of exceptional merit.

• Abigail Cummins

Aileen Walls Award

The Aileen Walls Award provides a prize to an outstanding graduating English major.

• Kyleigh Purks

Dr. Barry Berkey Personal Essay Award

The Dr. Barry Berkey Personal Essay Award recognizes an outstanding non-fiction personal essay written by a junior or senior undergraduate English major.

• Molly Sullivan

Graduation with Honors in English

• Kelly Clayton
• Brittney Knight
• Jacqueline Loustaunau
• Shawn McElhinney
• Caitlin McKenzie
• Mary McKnight
• Britt Mullins
• Emerica Quarshie