Convention Awards
Each year Sigma Tau Delta recognizes excellence in convention presentations by awarding thousands of dollars in prize money. Perhaps your submission could be a winner in one of these categories.
Isabel Sparks President's Awards
Given for the best presentations by active student and alumni members at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention, these awards were established in 1991 by Isabel Sparks, the fifth President of Sigma Tau Delta.
Categories
- Original Fiction and Drama
First Place ($600)
Ashleigh Fox
Chatham University (PA)
"Ocean's Deep"
Second Place ($300)
Kathryn Grogan
Azusa Pacific University (CA)
"Runaway"
Honorable Mention ($150 each)
Colleen Kellogg
Metropolitan State University of Denver (CO)
"All-American Woman"
Rebecca Pearson
Erskine College (SC)
"The Waiting Room"
- Creative Non-Fiction
First Place ($600)
Caitlynn Hughes
Collin COllege (TX)
"To the Cross at Trinity Mills"
Second Place ($300)
Rebecca Thieman
Western Kentucky University (KY)
"Peniocereus Greggi"
Third Place ($150 each)
Katelin Colby
Baker University (KS)
"It Began with a Car"
Rachel Sudbeck
Western Kentucky University (KY)
"Patchwork"
- Original Poetry
First Place ($600)
Joseph Gamble
University of Alabama (AL)
"Visions of Bruegel"
Second Place ($300)
Heba Jahama
The College of New Jersey (NJ)
"Qisas: Stories from Islamic Tradition"
Third Place ($150 each)
John Gray
Union University (TN)
"Sex, Atheism, and Things I Wish I Knew More About"
Lisa Folkmire
Alma University (MI)
"Page Pressed Primroses"
- Critical Essays: British Literature, and World Literature
First Place ($600)
Melodie Roschman
Andrews University (MI)
"Costuming and Selfhood in Gregory Doran's Hamlet"
Second Place ($300)
Whitney May
Texas State University (TX)
"Paradise Lost: An Ecocritically Oedipal Resolution"
Third Place ($150)
Kaitlyn Smith
Lee University (TN)
"Craziness as Construction in Yeat's Crazy Jane"
- Critical Essays: American Literature
First Place ($600 each)
Ruth Stamper
Missouri Southern State University (MO)
"Deflating Honey: Albee's 2004 Revision of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Nan Kavanaugh
University of North Florida (FL)
"The Abstraction of Interpretation"
- Critical Essays: Theory, Education, Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Young Adult Literature
First Place ($600 each)
Chelsea Lantz-Cashman
Western Carolina University (NC)
"That Old Story: Rewriting a Grimm Reality"
Sean Fischer
SUNY, College at Geneseo (NY)
"Metaphor or Metonym: Applying Lodge to Realism"
- Popular Culture and Film Studies
First Place ($600)
Amber Mathias
Columbia College (SC)
"Lords of the Fly: Privilege in George Langelaan's 'The Fly'"
Second Place ($300)
Maura Corbett
Assumption COllege (MA)
"Doctor Who and Post-Imperial British Identity"
- Common Reader: We The Animals by Justin Torres
First Place ($600)
Missy Wallace
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg (MS)
"We the Animals and Man in Nature"
Second Place ($300)
Kristine Steddum
Missouri Southern State University (MO)
"We the Animals by Justin Torres: A Poetic Response"
Other Convention Awards
Best Essay on Convention Theme "River Current"
These awards are for the best essays on the convention theme submitted as part of the Sigma Tau Delta scholarship program.
First Place ($600)
Anna Moyer
University of Alabama (AL)
"Witness Conquers Erasure in McCarthy's Blood Meridian"
Best Essay on 90th Anniversary Theme "1924"
First Place ($400)
Genean Granger
Northern Michigan University (MI)
"1924 - A Nun's Life"
Alumni Epsilon Papers
Given for the best presentations by Alumni Epsilon members.
Best Critical Paper ($375)
Kim Harrer
Alumna of Metropolitan State University of Denver (CO)
"His Literary Cosmos: Chaucer as Primus Mobile"
Best Creative Paper ($375)
Sarah Galo
Alumna of
Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)
"Lacuna, A Selection of Poetry"
Sigma Kappa Delta Award
Given for the best presentation by a Sigma Kappa Delta member.
Winner
Avery Wood
Collin College (TX)
"Because I Drew Him From the Water"