{"id":209587,"date":"2025-04-25T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=209587"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:08:19","slug":"announcing-the-2025-english-department-scholarship-and-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2025\/04\/25\/announcing-the-2025-english-department-scholarship-and-award-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2025 English Department Scholarship and Award Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English Department is excited to announce the 2025 recipients of the Department&#8217;s various scholarships and awards. You can view descriptions and qualifications on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/awards-and-scholarships\/\">Awards and Scholarships page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Department Scholarships and Awards<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Frank G. and Nicole McGuire Scholarship:\u00a0James Diamond<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Bessie Saslaw Solomon Memorial Scholarship:\u00a0Victony Garcia<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Shari Kandell Scholarship: Jordan Newbury<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The W. Leonard Newman Award:\u00a0Julia Abata<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Bernard Fleischmann Memorial Award:\u00a0Faith Monesteri<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Elizabeth Dean Eler Memorial Award: Miranda Kawiecki<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The English Department Teacher Education Award:\u00a0Menen Gowdie<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Anthony Lovasco Shakespeare Award: Jenny Both<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Murray Prosky Prize in Irish Literature: Cailin Carragher<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Janet Holt scholarship:\u00a0Miranda Kawiecki<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Vivien L. Kwiatek Scholarship: Jacob Kaczorowski, Andres Lopez, Annette Torres Moya, Ptissem Assou, Natalie Mignanelli, Samantha Granados, Debbie Martinez<\/p>\n<h2>Graduate Scholarships and Awards<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Mary Bondon Graduate Scholarship: Faith Monesteri<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Lawrence H. Conrad Memorial Scholarship: Briana Tolbert-Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<h2>Creative Writing Awards<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Johnny Muller Memorial Scholarship in Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">First place: Kate McKeever &#8211; \u201c<em>Wax Fruit<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Second Place: Kaitlyn McCarthy &#8211; \u201c<em>Palm to Palm<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Tom Benediktsson Award for Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Winner: Josephine Estes &#8211; \u201c<em>Eponym Driving<\/em>,\u201d \u201c<em>Laps<\/em>,\u201d and \u201c<em>Diary<\/em>,\u201d<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Runner-up: Sophie LeManquais &#8211; \u201c<em>Predispositional<\/em>,\u201d \u201c<em>Road Thoughts<\/em>,\u201d and \u201c<em>What I Have Now<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>English Department Award for Flash Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Winner: Abigail Makovoz &#8211; \u201c<em>Grisha\u2019s Dream<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Runner-up: Katelyn McKeever &#8211; \u201c<em>BlackDog, Running<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Minnie Max Award for Creative Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Winner: Oluwaferanmi Fadayomi &#8211; \u201c<em>Call Me by My Name<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Runner-up: Josephine Estes &#8211; \u201c<em>In a Field\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>View past winners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/awards-and-scholarships\/scholarship-and-award-winners\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Department is excited to announce the 2025 recipients of the Department&#8217;s various scholarships and awards. You can view descriptions and qualifications on the Awards and Scholarships page. Department Scholarships and Awards The Frank G. and Nicole McGuire Scholarship:\u00a0James Diamond The Bessie Saslaw Solomon Memorial Scholarship:\u00a0Victony Garcia The Shari Kandell Scholarship: Jordan Newbury The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":208076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-57_english-department","category-7_homepage-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209593,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209587\/revisions\/209593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}