2020 AwardsEnglish
Graduate Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
- Katherine Bentley
- Kristen Greiner
- Lauren Hoerath
- Jordan Reich
- Katie Richards
- Allie Tunstall
- Deborah Van Trees
- Richard Wentworth
- Mary Winsor
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.
- Shannon Pennell
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.
- Melissa Howell
Dan Rudy Fiction Prize
The Dan Rudy Fiction Prize for a single short story of 20 double-spaced pages or less.
- Lauren Davila
Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Prize
The Shelley A. Marshall Fiction Prize for a single short story of 20 doubled-spaced pages or less.
- Melissa Wade
Virginia Downs EcoPoetry Award
The Virginia Downs Poetry Award is given for a single poem of 60 lines or less.
- Danielle Williams
Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
The Joseph Lohman Poetry Prize is given for a single poem of 60 lines or less.
- Eli Vandegrift
Undergraduate Awards
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.
- Sawyer Kressin
Aileen Walls Award
The Aileen Walls Award provides a prize to an outstanding graduating English major.
- Julija Pivo
- George Wright
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.
- Sean McBride