awards in writing contest
Yale undergraduates won 4 of 10 awards for nonfiction writing in this year's Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest.
Samantha Culp '04 of Timothy Dwight College won second prize for non-fiction in the annual contest, which is also open to writers of fiction and poetry. Seniors Lauren Keane of Silliman College, Daniel Kurtz-Phelan of Berkeley College and Leah Swann of Jonathan Edwards College won honorable mentions in the non-fiction category.
The Atlantic Monthly Writing Contest is open to full-time undergraduate and graduate students at American universities. Submissions for the contest are original, unpublished work (the writing can have been published in a student publication) that demonstrates "superior quality of expression and craftsmanship."
In the non-fiction category, the writers submitted personal or journalistic essays. The winners of the contest were announced in the May issue of Atlantic Monthly.
Culp has written for the Yale Herald, and Keane has also been published in that undergraduate newspaper. Kurtz-Phelan was editor-in-chief of The New Journal and wrote last summer for the Buenos Aires Herald. Swann has written articles for The Yale Review of Books.
Since the Atlantic Monthly began its student writing contest six years ago, Yale students have won almost a third of all non-fiction awards and more than a third of all prizes, including two first prizes, three second prizes and two third prizes, according to Fred Strebeigh, a lecturer in English and at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, who teaches an undergraduate writing course.
This record, he adds, is unmatched by other universities. Yale students have also won awards in the fiction and poetry categories.
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