ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan students split more than $32,000 in prizes during today’s Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony.

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.

Winners—including those designated with (*) for multiple awards—include:

Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction

• *Zoya Gurm, Ann Arbor, $800 award for “When the Rains Came.”
• *Kate Velguth, Mt. Pleasant, Mich., $800 award for “Landscapes,” “Remnants” and “Phantoms.”
• Daphnecay Cantuba, Keego Harbor, Mich., $1,000 award for “Naomi” and “Dream Girl.”
• Laura Dzubay, Bloomington, Ind., $1,500 award for “Homes of Children.”

Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction

• *Elena Ramirez-Gorski, Adrian, Mich., $2,000 award for “Essays on Place and Loss.”
• Kate Velguth, Mt. Pleasant, Mich., $2,000 for “Principle of Sympathetic Resonance,” “Summer,” “Email” and “Dichotomy.”

Hopwood Underclassmen Poetry

• Julie Moss, Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., $800 award “Thursday’s Child.”
• Zoya Gurm, Ann Arbor, $1,500 award for “Meanderings.”
• Miriam Saperstein, Huntington Woods, Mich., $1,500 award for “A Bitter Taste.”

Academy of American Poets Prize

• Clare Hogan, Chevy Chase, Md., $100 in the graduate division for “A Speculation.”
• Hannah Klemkow, Flint, Mich., $100 in the undergraduate division for “I Am Waiting by the Damned Concrete Riverside.”

Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize

• Jonathan Holland, Ypsilanti, Mich., $650 for “But if He’d Have Said Goodbye.”

Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry

• Fatimah Asghar, Ann Arbor, $500 for “How We Left.”
• Tara Jay, Ann Arbor, $700 for “Virginia Slims.”

Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry

• Caroline Rothrock, Alpharetta, Ga., $650 for “Sanguinaccio Dolce.”
• Sara Carretero, Clarkston, Mich., $850 for “Josefina.”

Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award

• Elena Ramirez-Gorski, Adrian, Mich., $875 award for “Essays on Place and Loss.”

Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship

• Stephanie Mullings, Chicago, $1,000 for “Keys.”
• Ben Rappoport, Knoxville, Tenn., $1,000 for “A Peculiar Love for Nuts” and “12:57.”
• Tierra Christian, Southfield, Mich., $2,000 for “Writing for Understanding.”
• Brooke White, Waterford, Mich., $2,000 for “Letters from Indiana” and “Make Believe.”
• Josh Mandilk, Commerce Township, Mich., $5,000 for “Ripples, Brown and Blue.”
• Serena Scholz, Oxford, Mich., $5,000 for “The Helsinki Waste Closet Incident and Other Stories.”