The Writing Studio celebrates undergraduate writing and all that undergraduate writers are capable of, and we congratulate the winners of the 2024 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers!
Winners of the 2024 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers
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1st Place
- Ayse Keles “Exposing the System: Hans Haacke’s Cancelled Exhibition at the Guggenheim”
2nd Place
- Franklin Udensi “The Igbo Anglican Church”
3rd Place
- Blaire Richards “Barstool” (fiction)
Honorable Mention
- Blaire Richards “The Praline Dilemma” (fiction)
Thanks to all who entered their writing!
We want to offer a note of thanks, too, to all of the authors who entered their compositions for consideration in this year’s Morgan Award competition.
The 2024 Morgan Award competition received over 70 submissions–essays, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more–all by Vanderbilt’s first-year students.
After giving careful consideration to this body of work, the committee felt inspired by and grateful for the chance to see the fruits of our first-year students’ academic and creative labors as writers and thinkers. From this auspicious beginning, we sincerely hope that each and every one of you will continue to dare to grow as writers throughout the rest of your time at Vanderbilt.
To learn more, visit our page on the annual Morgan Award competition.