ARNOLD KOSSOFF "PEN TO PAPER" CONTEST

 

2025 winners and runners up

Undergraduate Category
Winner:  Ellie Hugi: October 21st 2024 - I Found God in the Back of a Thrift Store 
1st Runner Up:  O'Ryan Slydell: I Must Remember to Wash My Hands
2nd Runner Up:  Atira Claude: The Surprise of Mortality

Graduate Category
Winner: Barbara Perez: Ghost Stories
1st Runner Up: Jingle Wells: Only A Bird 
2nd Runner Up: Heather Wolverton: Animal Communication

2024 Winners & Finalists

Undergraduate Category
Winner: John Keller: Who Will You Call Father?
1st Runner Up:  Michelle Kancherla: Eggestential Dread
2nd Runner Up:  Jessica Babin: My Hair

Graduate Category
Winner:  Cynthia Gonzalez: He was Born in 2004 
1st Runner Up: Paula Rodriguez: What We See in Pictures 
2nd Runner Up: Tyler Bonnet: Commentary on My Commonplace 

2023 Winners & Finalists

In 2023, the Contest was moved from the Fall 2023 semester to the Spring 2024 semester. Thus, there are no winners in 2023.

2022 Winners & Finalists

Undergraduate Category
Winner: Rithika Mathew, Catching Her Flying Kisses
1st Runner Up: Calli Abisognio, The Sweat Stain Upon My Being
2nd Runner Up: Florencia Azcurra, My Companion the Ocean

Graduate Category
Winner: Victor Menco Haeckermann, The Brightest Side of Resignation
1st Runner Up: Jessica Elizabeth Young, A Glimpse of the Future
2nd Runner Up: Paula Rodriguez, Mothering Your Hope

 

2021 Winners & Finalists

Undergraduate Category
Winner: Gracie Wipfli, "Clair de Lune"
1st Runners Up (tie): Darlene Antoine, "The Girl Who Wanted to Eat the Stars" and Kamryn Stoneburner, "Vinyl-Scratched Memories"
2nd Runner Up: Gina Marie Gruss, "Breathe."

Graduate Category
Winner: Stephanie Byun, "The (In)Destructible Body"
1st Runner Up: Mustari Akhi, "Abandoned Bus Stop"
2nd Runner Up: Wilson Sims, "Someone Else's Story"

2020 Winners & Finalists

Undergraduate Category
Winner: "Growth" by Marc Kaneko
1st runner up: "Fit the Description" by Santonya Smith
2nd runner up: "What’s in a Name" by Tomislav Lukic

Graduate Category
Winner: "Shamba" by Daphne Kiplagat
1st runner up: "Sand in the Passenger Seat" by Samantha Trail
2nd runner up: "What is Hope?" by Maya Elias

2019 Winners

Undergraduate Category
Winner: "What I Am to Be, I Am Now Becomming" by Sheri Reid

Graduate Category
Winner: "Stigma" by Eric Nieves

 

2018 Winner

Graduate Category
"On Not Knowing," by Corrinne Binnings