ANN ARBOR—Six University of Michigan students split $7,300 in prizes during today’s 78th Summer Hopwood Awards and the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry.

The Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing are among the nation’s oldest contests for student writers. The awards are funded by a bequest from Avery Hopwood, a 1905 U-M graduate and successful Broadway playwright, and Jule Hopwood, his mother. Past winners include Arthur Miller, John Ciardi and Marge Piercy.

The winners are:

• Kristina Perkins, Ann Arbor, won a $600 Summer Hopwood Nonfiction award for “On Empathy.”
• Sarah Huttenlocher, Clarkston, Mich., won a $1,000 Summer Hopwood Nonfiction award for “Consumed.”
• San Pham, Whitmore Lake, Mich., won a $2,000 Summer Hopwood Fiction award for “Eating Oceans,” and a $1,500 Summer Hopwood Poetry award for “Lungs Full.”
• Maria Robins-Somerville, Brooklyn, N.Y., won a $1,000 Summer Hopwood Poetry “The Body as Text.”
• Angelica Esquivel, Fostoria, Ohio, won a $500 Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for “La Mujer.”
• Antonina Malyarenko, Troy, Mich., won a $700 Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry for “Husbandry.”