Professor Adele Kudish presented Enzo Scavone with the First Prize of $250 in Fiction, and he read from one of his subway stories, thanking his professors for their support. Professor Berlinger also presented an Honorable Mention in Fiction award of $50 to Rey Harris, who read from, as he put it, “an post-apocalyptic story about the struggle to learn faith and God.” From urban settings to Victorian timesīMCC Writing Center Director Jason Schneiderman presented the First Prize in Poetry, $250, to Jason Kocsis, praising his work for its “urban settings and urbane wit.”Īward winner Keziah Tutu is “always curious and deeply insightful in class, and the same qualities come through in her poetry,” said Professor Elizabeth Berlinger as she presented her with the $50 Honorable Mention prize in Poetry. ![]() Music Professor Christine Free accompanied each singer on piano, and both she and Professor Eugenia Yau guided their performance. Kishawn Francis, baritone, sang the 18th-century aria now attributed to Tommaso Giordani, “Caro Mio Ben.” ![]() Tenor De Long Le sang “Some Enchanted Evening,” a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. ![]() In the middle of the award program, the audience was treated to two musical performances. Groushevaia for her essay about the movie Mildred Pierce and another from Romania both focusing on “sacrificial mothers hiding behind a mask,” as Groushevaia put it, thanking her professors for their support and sharing that “I grew up in Russia, went to high school in Russia and writing in English has been a challenge.” Musical Interlude Professor Cheryl Fish presented the Honorable Mention award of $50 to Irina K. Kyle Fraser was presented with First Prize, $250 by Professor Page Delano for his essay which “brought up a new way of reading,” she said, of the well known 19th-century short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. “The committee was taken by the thoughtfulness and humor of his piece about his family,” she said. Professor Adele Kudish presented the First Prize of $250 for Memoir to student Abner Valenzuela. In closing, he read an excerpt from his novel The Song of the Shank, which is based on the musical genius and historical figure Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave who performed under the name “Blind Tom.” Meeting challenges “As a kid, I wrote for fun, and it always came naturally to me,” he said, adding that “writing is paradoxical the stuff that is most interesting is often unplanned … as hard as writing is for me, when I’m not writing, I’m miserable.” He authored two collections of poetry Stella Places and Harbors and Spirits, and holds the position of Associate Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY.īMCC Professor of English Timothy Keane introduced Allen, who described himself as the first person in his family to attend college. He is also the author of Rails Under my Back, which won the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland prize for fiction. Jeffrey Renard Allen’s latest novel is The Song of the Shank, from Graywolf Press. ![]() Eight student writers received awards for their writing, two students presented a musical interlude, and renown novelist and poet Jeffrey Renard Allen delivered keynote remarks. The 10th annual English Department Faculty Writing Awards were recently held in Richard Harris Terrace on the BMCC main campus.
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