Congratulations to the winners of the Department of Humanities’ 58th Annual Writing Contest!

2023 winners represent students from the Armour College of Engineering, College of Architecture, Lewis College of Science and Letters, and the College of Computing.

Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Nonfiction
1st: Jessica Burrell (Social and Economic Development Policy, 3rd year), “Louisiana Coastal Erosion”
2nd: Nabil Fawaz (Civil/Transportation Engineering, 3rd year), “A Queer Loop: The Many Lives of LGBTQ Chicago”
3rd: Sarah Kay Stephens (Architecture, 5th year), “Solving the Environmental Crisis through Adaptive Thoughts and Adaptive Reuse”

Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Fiction
1st: Jessica Burrell (Social and Economic Development Policy, 3rd year), “Mindfulness”
2nd: Angela Petrone (Digital Humanities, 3rd year), “Ashes”
3rd: Vishnu Rama Varma Thampuran (Computer Science, 1st year), “A Leap of Faith”

Mollie Cohen Prize for Poetry
1st: Fionn Hui (Architecture, 2nd year), “Places to Return to”
2nd: Beatrice De Castro (Architecture, 3rd year), “Untitled”
3rd: Julia King (Global Studies, 1st year), “Triptych of Consumption”

Henry and Myrna Knepler Freshman Essay Prize
1st: Julia King (Global Studies, 1st year), “Modes of Translation”
2nd: Le Thuc Ny Phan (Architecture, 1st year), “The McDonald Chicago Flagship by Ross Barney Architects: Wall-E’s Plant in Boot”

Warren Schmaus Prize for Philosophy Writing
1st: Paula Pardo (Astrophysics, 3rd year), “The Ground”

An in-person awards ceremony will be held on April 18, 2023, from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.