2009 Winners
Farthest North Fiction Contest
Judge: Jo-Ann Mapson, Professor, UAA
1st Place —$100 Award
“Lighting In You a Tremendous Fire”
Kyle Mellen (UAF)
2nd Place
“Ina Backstroke of Pedals”
Lance Twitchell (UAF)
3rd Place
“Setting Traps”
Kate Hove (UAF)
Honorable Mention
“Landeyda”
Jenni Moody (UAF)
and
“ Like Snow in Winter”
Greg Lyons (UAF)
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Northern Lights Essay Contest
Judge: Professor Kerri K. Morris, UAA
1st Place —$100 Award
“Light Exercise”
Scott Banks (UAA)
2nd Place
“Pride”
Veronica Goldsmith (UAS)
3rd Place
“Ofoeti, Fun Forever”
Bryr Ludington (UAF)
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Harold McCracken Award for Outstanding Writing About Alaska and the North Country
Judge: Professor Sherry Simpson, UAA
1st Place —$150 Award
“Killing Me”
Kyle Mellen (UAF)
2nd Place
“Pike”
Martha Amore (UAA)
3rd Place
“A Voice in the Desk: Language and the Modern Day Warrior”
Lance Twitchell (UAF)
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Harold McCracken Endowment Poetry Award
Judge: Professor Emily Wall, UAS
1st Place —$100 Award
“Through the Years”
Stevie Pyfer (UAS)
2nd Place
“I Wore Cowboy Boots to Work Today”
Scott Banks (UAA)
3rd Place
“Ashtrays”
Zackary Medlin (UAF)
Honorable Mention:
“The Last Word”
Vivian Faith Prescott (UAS)
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Minnie E. Wells Award in Literary Criticism
Judge: Dr. Suzanne Forster, UAA
1st Place —$200 Award
“Ophelia as Mary: The Enigma of the Virgin and the Whore”
Jasmine Johnson (UAF)
2nd Place
“Nelly Dean and the True Love Story of Wuthering Heights ”
Daniel Zollman (UAF)
3rd Place
“Desdemona: Modern Female in an Older Time”
Jeremy Nowicki (UAF)
Honorable Mentions
“Jealousy as Madness: The Driving Force Behind Othello”
Jerrett Richards (UAF)
and
“Henry V: All Characters are Minor, All Show Morality of the King”
Alexandra packa (UAF)
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E.L. Bartlett Prize for Literary Criticism
Judge: Professor Daniel T. Kline, UAA
1st Place —$100 Award
“Foolery in King Lear and Ran”
Robert Byers (UAF)
2nd Place
“Malice Domestic: Exploring the Host/Guest Relationship in Macbeth and King Lear”
Nan Lallish (UAF)
3rd Place
“The Self-Defeating Sociological Text: Modernist Experimentation in Jean Toomer’s Cane”
Kyle Mellen (UAF)
Honorable Mention
“A Fetish for Uncanny Alterity: Gerald Manley Hopkins’s Terrible Sonnets”
James Arthur Raines (UAF)
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Archie Shiels Freshman Writing Contest
Judge: Visiting Instructor Jennifer Brice, UAF
1st Place —$100 Award
“Morally Complete”
Skye Malemute (UAF)
2nd Place
“Experiencing Education”
Bozena Derek-Glover (UAF)
3rd Place
“Tempted to Analyze”
Charity Henry (UAF)
Honorable Mention
“Breaking Bonds” Charity Henry (UAF) and “Labyrinthine” Seth Box (UAF)