Students share $1,625 in prizes for creative writing

August 19, 1997
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ANN ARBOR—Three students at the University of Michigan have received Summer Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing, while two others were given the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry, also administered by the U-M Hopwood program.

Funded by a gift from U-M alumnus and Broadway playwright Avery Hopwood, the 60th annual Summer Hopwood Contest includes awards in fiction, essay, poetry and drama/screenplay categories.

Winners of the Summer Hopwood Awards and the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry, listed by hometown, are:

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.—Diane Marie Cook, senior, $400 in the Hopwood fiction category for “Panties.”

COMSTOCK PARK, MICH.—Matthew S. Weiler, sophomore, $300 in the Hopwood essay category for “Essays Miscellany.”

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.—Alicia Smith, senior, $100 for the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for “Acceptance Speech.”

HOUSTON, TEXAS—R.L. Pham, senior, $400 in the Hopwood poetry category for “A Few Words for My Father” and $300 in the Hopwood essay category for “Only If I Were Jesus.”

PARMA, MICH.—Fritz Swanson, junior, $100 for the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for “Amongst the Ruins of Kelsey/Hayes Manufacturing, Ltd.”

Hopwood Awards