U-M students receive Hopwood Awards for creative writing

August 24, 2017
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ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan announced the summer winners of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards.

The awards are funded by a bequest from Avery Hopwood, a 1905 graduate and successful Broadway playwright, and Jule Hopwood, his mother. Past winners include Arthur Miller, Frank O’Hara, John Ciardi and Marge Piercy.

Summer Hopwood Short Fiction

  • Evan Rose, Milford, Mich., “Coffee, God, and Cigarettes and Other Stories,” $600.
  • Riva Szostkowski, Ann Arbor, “The Rocket’s Red Glare,” $600.

 

Summer Hopwood Nonfiction

  • Kathryn Orwig, Ann Arbor, “A Memoir of Kindness and Positivity,” $600.
  • Joshua Rabotnick, Santa Clarita, Calif., “The Calls That Change Us” and “The Toll of Emergency Medicine,” $1,000.

 

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