Literary Competition Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the Alpha Delta Phi Foundation Annual Undergraduate and Alumni Literary Competitions.

2025-2026 Undergraduate Competition Winners

To be announced in August, 2026.

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2025-2026 Alumni Competition Winners

Fiction

  1. First place TIE: Nessa Burns Reifsnyder, Bowdoin College 1986 for “Bill and Nell” — Award to charity
  2. First place TIE: Dorian Hart, Wesleyan University 1991 for “Blindfold” — Award to charity
  3. Third place: Dorian Hart, Wesleyan University 1991 for “Xenia” — Award to charity

Non-Fiction

  1. Sydney Pearson, Brown University 2025 for “Every Road” — Award to charity
  2. Jon Vick, Hamilton College 1964 for “My Last Call for Alcohol” — Award to charity
  3. Third place TIE: Dorian Hart, Wesleyan University 1991 for “Lucy and the Gold Coin” — Award to charity
  4. Third place TIE: Michelle Katz, Wesleyan University 2009 for “Why the Rabbinical College Went to Church (Rd): A Case Study of Linguistic Differentiation Regarding RRC’s 1982 Relocation” — Award to charity

Poetry

  1. Brett Zalkan, Bowdoin College 1987 for “C-Section” — Award to charity
  2. Dea Hunsicker, Wesleyan University 2002 for “Seventeen” — Award to charity

Photography

  1. Steven Krisky, Union College 1980 for “Collection ft. Sunflowers, Acadia, Vines, and Superman” — Award to charity
  2. Jim Sabo, Bowdoin College 1992 for “A Day with the Fae” — Award to charity

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