Literary Competition Winners 2023-2024

Congratulations to the winners of the Alpha Delta Phi Foundation Annual Undergraduate and Alumni Literary Competitions for the 2023-2024 Academic Year.

2023-2024 Undergraduate Competition Winners

Grand Prize: Daniel Pearl Award for Literary Excellence

Fiction

  1. Griffin Sluszkiewicz, Binghamton University 2022 for “Angel Factory”
  2. Kate Isabel Foley, Ursinus College 2023 for “Meta”
  3. (Third Place TIE) Anna Dubey, Brown University 2025 for “The Trash”
  4. (Third Place TIE) Colin Picket, George Washington University 2022 for “Notorious”

Non-Fiction

  1. Diane Story, Brown University 2023 for “Letting them go back gracefully: NICU Nurses and Withdrawal of Care Bioethics and Culture”
  2. Zoe Boggs, Brown University 2022 for “Hi, Prince Mongo”
  3. Nasreen Duqmaq, Brown University 2022 for “Modernized Medusa” and other works

Poetry

  1. (First Place TIE) Anna Dubey, Brown University 2025 for “Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Passover, 1943”
  2. (First Place TIE) Cooper Barron, University of Toronto 2024 for “Shoebox Queer”, “Cortard’s Snake”, and “Doomerboy, Interrupted”
  3. (Second Place TIE) Sarah Buck, Ursinus College 2022 for “Free” and other works
  4. (Second Place TIE) Colin Picket, George Washington University 2022 for “Weary: A Journal”

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Writing

  1. Neha Ahmed, George Washington University 2021 for “Cultivating Science Identity in Students With Intersectional Identities Through Scientist Spotlight Assignments” and “Impact of Weight Loss Advertisements on Body Image”
  2. Janelle Barnett, Brown University 2024 for “Black Maternal Mortality in the United States: Why Does This Disparity Exist and How Do We Address This Issue?”
  3. Zhiyuan (Paul) Zhou, Brown University 2023 for “Improving Post-Processing on Video Object Recognition Using Inertial Measurement Unit”

Photography

  1. Dylan Kim, Columbia University 2024 for “The Unsuspecting Home Series”
  2. Nasreen Duqmaq, Brown University 2022 for “The Infrastructure Series”
  3. Kei Fink, Indiana State University 2023 for “Hydrangeas”

Visual Art

  1. Emery Miller, Binghamton University 2022 for “Untitled” (Paper Mache Mushroom) and other works
  2. John Watson, George Washington University 2022 for “Are We Too Late?” (screen print)
  3. No award given

Music and Lyrics

  1. Kate Isabel Foley, Ursinus College 2023 for “Second Choice” and “My Turquoise Sweater” (score)
  2. Dylan Kim, Columbia University 2024 for “Riverside Blue Wave” (score)
  3. Adira Altman, Brown University 2025 for “Don’t Ask Jack” (score)

Film

  1. Nasreen Duqmaq, Brown University 2022 for “FIGS”
  2. Dylan Kim, Columbia University 2024 for “Heimlich: A-Side”

2023-2024 Alumni Competition Winners

Fiction

  1. Dorian Hart, Wesleyan University 1991 for “The Eight Percent” — Award to charity
  2. 2nd Place TIE: Julie Levy, Wesleyan University 2007 for “The Warding Bell” — Award to charity
  3. 2nd Place TIE: Liam Carpenter-Urquhart, Brown University 2019 for “Our Bodies Remember Cars” — Award to charity
  4. No third place award given.

Non-Fiction

  1. Ezra Lowe, George Washington University 2020 for “Trying to be Real with Alexander Chee” — Award to charity
  2. Caitlyn Roberts, Binghamton University 2021 for “The Disproportionate Effects of Punishments on Black Disabled Schoolchildren and their ‘Right’ to Education” — Award to charity
  3. 3rd Place TIE: Anthony Pelham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1979 for “Nail Holes” — Award to charity
  4. 3rd Place TIE: Ryan Carroll, George Washington University 2020 for “Untitled” — Award to charity

Poetry

  1. Ezra Lowe, George Washington University for “Ode II, Joy” — Award to charity
  2. 2nd Place TIE: David Jilk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1985 for “Slow-Motion Firefight” — Award to charity
  3. 2nd Place TIE: Ryan Carroll, George Washington University 2020 for “Siblinghood” — Award to charity
  4. No third place award given.

Photography

  1. Nessa Reifsnyder, Bowdoin College 1986 for “In Situ” — Award to charity
  2. Tim Gorton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2002 for “Fallen Tree, Acadia” — Award to charity
  3. Pamela Smith, Bowdoin College 1992 for “Welcome to Burlesque” — Award to charity

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