2009 SSML Annual Writing Prizes

Jill Barnum Midwestern Heritage Prize for Literary Criticism:
Joseph J. Wydeven, emeritus, Bellevue University
“Wright Morris’s Chicago”

Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize:
Mary Minnock, Madonna University
“The Time I Took Patsy Higgins Up to Holy Redeemer”

Honorable mention: Linda Bearss, Durand, MI, “Blood in the Trash”

Paul Somers Prize for Creative Prose:
Dawn Comer, Defiance College
“Fella with an Umbrella: Finding Joy on the Autism Spectrum”

David Diamond Student Writing Prize:
Richmond B. Adams, Southern Illinois University
“‘Holy Moses!’: The Pit, Curtis Jadwin and the Documentary Hypothesis”

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