ISAACS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The Isaacs Scholarship at City College is an undergraduate scholarship for students at the College planning to pursue a major in English Literature. Isaacs Scholars are capable of serious work in humanistic studies. The program is built around a major in English literature with collateral work in Foreign languages and the Classics: the traditional disciplines of a liberal education. https://isaacs.ccny.cuny.edu/
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AWARDS AND PRIZES
AY 2024 – 2025 Award Recipients
CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS
The Doris Lippman Prize in Creative Writing – Griffy LaPlante
The Jerome Lowell DeJur Award In Fiction – Ripley Mandanis
The Jerome Lowell DeJur Award In Poetry – Samantha Hernandez
The Elyse L. Nass Scholarship – Griffy Laplante
The David Dortort Prize in Non-Fiction – Jacqueline Schechter
The Henry Roth Award in Fiction – Bjarni Erlendsson
The Henry Roth Award in Fiction – Evan Williams
The Ross Alexander Memorial Award in Drama – Juliana Francis
The Geraldine Griffin Moore Memorial Scholarship – Jessica Oesterle
The Goodman Fund Grants – Micaela Macagnone
The Goodman Fund Short Story Award – Dylan Perry
The Graduate Children’s Writing Award – John Attanas
The Undergraduate Children’s Writing Award – Dylan Perry
POETRY AWARDS
The Esther Unger Poetry Prize – Roxanna Cardenas Colmenares and Sophia Hull
The Goodman Fund Poetry Award – Evan Williams and Chelsea Wong
ESSAY AWARDS
The Allan Danzig Memorial Award in Victorian and Romantic Literature – Billie Estrine
The Riggs Gold Medal Essay Award – Evan Williams
The Meyer Cohn Graduate Essay Award in Literature – Kelly Liu
THE IRWIN & ALICE STARK AWARDS
The Stark Short Fiction Prize
graduate: India Choquette and Samantha Hernandez
undergraduate: Kenneth Koko
The Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson – Norelle Dean and Catherine Perry
The Stark Award for Essay in Literature – Kaitlyn Murphy
The Stark English Composition Award in Memory of Mina Shaughnessy – Vincent Le
AWARDS FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE
The Lillian Feder Scholarship – Dylan Perry
The Maria Bournas Student Fellowship – Bryan Soriano Mateo
The Weiner Nusim Stairway to Excellence Award – Giovanni Amaro
The Edward C. and Ruth P. Mack Graduate Fellowship – Bryan Soriano Mateo
The Abraham A. Bernstein Graduate Fellowship – Evan Williams
The Richard Shephard Award for Excellence in Writing – Roxanna Cardenas Colmenares
THE MARILYN STERNGLASS AWARDS IN LANGUAGE & LITERACY:
The Marilyn Sternglass Writing Award – Anna Shakova
The Marilyn Sternglass Overall Merit Award – Danny Katch and Anna-Kay Rose
TEACHING AWARDS
The Norman Levine Outstanding Teaching Award – Danny Katch and Anna-Kay Rose
The Teacher-Writer Award – Liana DeMasi and Juliana Francis