The College Writing Committee announced 15 students honored in the 2026 Outstanding Writing Awards.
The awardees will be celebrated at the 2026 Writing Gala to be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8, in the Dowd Gallery.
Winners and honorable mentions by category are:
Collin Anderson Memorial Awards in Creative Writing
- Poetry
- Winner: Kirsten Brennan
- Honorable Mention: Callie Pinnelli
- Fiction
- Winner: Kay Perry
- Honorable Mention: Hunter Williams
- Creative Nonfiction
- Winner: Hunter Williams
- Honorable Mention: Daphne Pufky
- Multimodal/Digital Writing
- Winner: Julia Strobel
- Honorable Mention: Isabella DuBois
Writing Across the Curriculum Awards
- Kathy Lattimore-First Year Writing
- Winner: Kaylee Klymkow
- Honorable Mention: Hailey Reilly
- School of Arts and Sciences
- Winner: Isabella DuBois
- Honorable Mention: William Moretti
- School of Professional Studies
- Winner: Meghan Sainsbury
- Graduate Student Writing
- Winner: Colin Saldaris
- Honorable Mention: Mamadou Diallo