Music
Welcome
Invocation
Dinner
Anteres Barton
Phillip Snyder
English Department Chair
Gina Schneck
Graduate Student Association President
Presentation of Faculty Awards Kimberly Johnson
English Department Associate Chair
Remarks Patrick Madden
Associate Professor of English
Presentation of Student Awards English Faculty
Benediction Lauren Fine
Graduate Student Association Social Chair
Strawberry Spinach Salad
Baci rolls with butter
Apple-cranberry stuffed chicken breast with marsala sauce
Creamy mashed potatoes
Chef’s vegetable medley
White chocolate raspberry layer cake
Sparkling white grape juice
Water
Orea B. Tanner Scholarship Presented by Phil Snyder
Funded by the Tanner family and friends in memory of Orea B. Tanner, who was a popular and dedicated teacher in the BYU English D epartment.
Genevieve Pettijohn
Shannon Tuttle
Hannah Walker
Jazmine Emerson
Alex Hugie
Madeline Thatcher
Andrew Wadsworth
Camille Ward
Marianna Giordano
Annalee Norton
Mae Blanch Scholarship Presented by Phil Snyder
Funded by the Mae Blanch family, this award is given to English majors who show academic merit and financial need. Preference is given to students who plan to become teachers.
Alexandra Harker
Earl and Bybee Scholarships Presented by Phil Snyder
Funded by the Oleta Bybee Foundation and donations by Naoma Rich Earl.
Susan Martin
Kennerly Roper
Andrew Roberts
Jordan Wright
Edwin M. and Dessie W. Thomas Scholarship
Presented by Phil Snyder
Funded by a gift from the Thomas family, these scholarships recognize English majors in their last undergraduate year at BYU.
Shaina Machado
Andrew Roberts
Joel Einfeldt
Marianna Giordano
Andrew Wadsworth
Alberta Huish Christensen Scholarship Presented by Phil Snyder
Funded by the Christensen family, this scholarship is for juniors or seniors.
Zoe Meyer
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Thayer Freshman Writing Award Presented by Grant Boswell
Research grant awarded to a graduate instructor who has demonstrated a commitment to the teaching of first-year writing, which recognizes the long-time dedication of Professor
Douglas Thayer and the service he provided thousands of first-year writing students.
Lauren Fine
Ed M. and Minnie Berry Rowe Award for Excellence in Teaching
Presented by Grant Boswell
This award recognizes outstanding teaching by graduate students.
Finalist: Katja Nelson
Winner: Gina Schneck
Finalist: Madeleine Dresden
Finalist: Lauren Todacheenie Finalist: Shelli Spots
English Teaching Student of the Year Presented by Dawan Coombs
Honors an outstanding English Teaching major completing his or her student teaching experience.
Devery Bellingham
Writing 150 Contest Presented by Lisa Johnson
The annual Writing 150 Writing Contest is sponsored by University Writing.
Rhetorical Analysis
1 st place: Bronte Thurgood
2 nd place: Gabriel Lee
Honorable mention: Rachel Uryan 3 rd place: Marie-Louise Smith
Persuasive Research
1 st place: Lily Oda
2 nd place: Trevor Casper
3 rd place: Emma Chapman
Honorable mention: Matthew Stradley
Honorable mention: Victoria Beecroft
Personal Narrative or Essay
1 st place: Mary Mortenson
2 nd place: Jenny Wilson
Opinion/Editorial
1
2 st nd
place: Marlene Schmidt
place: Hailey Payne
3 rd place: Tanner Call
Honorable mention: Mallory Duffield
Honorable mention: Bridgette Onines
Academy of American Poets Award Presented by Lance Larsen
The Academy of American Poets sponsors annual prizes for poetry at colleges and universities nationwide. The BYU Chapter prize is funded in perpetuity by a donation from Ethel Lowry Handley.
Winner: Benjamin Blackhurst
Honorable mention: Shane Peterson
Carolyn Barnes Poetry Award Presented by Lance Larsen
Funded by a trust established by professor and poet Jim S. Barnes to promote and encourage excellent poetry and to honor the memory of his beloved wife Carolyn.
Shane Peterson
Vera Hinckley Mayhew Creative Arts Awards
Presented by John Bennion
Funded by a trust established by Wayne E. Mayhew of Berkeley, California to recognize worthy creative writing and fine arts at BYU in honor of his wife, Vera Hinckley
Mayhew, a former BYU student.
Poetry
1 st place: Lauren Todacheenie
2 nd place: Alizabeth Leake
3 nd place: Benjamin Blackhurst
Essay
1
2
3 st nd rd
place: David Bailey Cox
place: Adrian Thayn
place: Nikkita Walker
Honorable mention: Tamara Thomson Honorable mention: Elizabeth Brady
Elizabeth Peek
Short Story (General)
1 st place: Catherine Nielson
2 nd place: Ian Hawkes
3 rd place: Emily Richey Natter
Short Story (Specialty)
1
2 st nd
place: Lauren Matthews
place: Tessa Hauglid
3 rd place: Heidi Voss
Honorable mention: William Finlayson 4 th place: Emily Richey Natter
Inscape Awards Presented by John Bennion
Inscape's creative writing contest honors students for writing original pieces of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry that exhibit vivid, contemporary sophistication, innovative language, and outstanding style.
Katie Pike Courtney Bulsiewicz Abbie Harlow
Elsie C. Carroll Essay Awards Presented by Joey Franklin
Funded by the family of Professor Elsie C. Carroll, a distinguished member of the
English faculty for three decades.
Undergraduate
1
2
3 st nd rd
place: Alizabeth Leake
place: Tyler Moore
place: Tamara Thomson
Graduate
1 st place: Emily Richey Natter
2 nd place: Shelli Spotts
3 rd place: Elizabeth Brady
Hart-Larson Poetry Awards Presented by Joey Franklin
Named after Professors Edward L. Hart and Clinton F. Larson, who for many years sponsored a poetry contest in the department.
Undergraduate
1
2
3 st nd rd
place: Alison Maeser
place: Paul Jepsen
place: Sarah Thompson
Graduate
1 st place: Adrian Thayn
2 nd place: Scott Porter
Ann Doty Fiction Awards Presented by Joey Franklin
Honors the memory of Ann Doty, an outstanding English major who had exceptional writing talent in fiction .
Undergraduate
1 st place: Hadley Griggs
2 nd place: Tyler Moore
3 rd place: Jesse Bunton
Graduate
1
2
3 st nd rd
place: Shelli Spotts
place: Emily Richey Natter
place: Adrian Thayn
Blessing-Kagel Creative Writing Awards Presented by Joey Franklin
The Blessing family has made contributions to the English Department in the names of
Herman W. F. Kagel, Carroll F. Blessing, and Helene K. Blessing to provide funding to support the study of creative writing at a seminar, conference, or workshop.
Valerie Hart
Tessa Hauglid
Benjamin Grange
Tamara Pace Thomson
Blessing-Kagel Literature and Landscape Study Abroad Awards
Presented by Joey Franklin
The Blessing Endowment provides funding to support creative writing students who have been accepted to the Literature and Landscape Study Abroad program.
Hadley Griggs
Emily Kempton
Sage Sundrud
Luke Bushman
Rachel Hansen
Meagan Ricks
Heather Thomson
Criterion Award for Literary Criticism Presented by Emron Esplin
Criterion is BYU's student journal of literary criticism. The journal releases an annual issue in print and online each late winter/early spring, and a fall online-only issue connected to the BYU English Symposium.
Fall
1 st place: Connor Race Davis
2 nd place: Tamara Pace Thomson
3 rd place: Laura Randle
Spring
1 st place: Tyler Moore
2 nd place: Chelsea Lee
3 rd place: Hadley Griggs
Locutorium Award
Locutorium is an online journal dedicated to discussions about the teaching of first-year composition. The essays published in Locutorium are written by first- and second-year graduate instructors.
1 st place: Jonathan Garcia
2 nd place: Alyssa Devey
3 rd place: Marie-Reine Pugh
4 th place: Chloe Moller
Presented by Grant Boswell
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Richard Payne Spencer Scholarship Presented by Phil Snyder
Funded by the Spencer family, this scholarship is given to undergraduate English majors.
Malary Hatch Jesse Bunton
Broadbent Scholarship scholarship is awarded to a single student with children at home.
Susan Martin
Presented by Phil Snyder
Funded by a gift from a former MA student who wishes to remain anonymous, this
P.A. & Ruth J. Christensen Scholarship Presented by Phil Snyder
Funded by the Christensen family to honor the contribution of master teacher and scholar
Parley A. Christensen and his wife, this scholarship is for promising graduate students.
2014-2015 recipient: Lauren Fine
Thanks to English Department faculty, staff, and students, and to those who donate funds to honor outstanding achievement