Recognizes excellence in composition at the undergraduate level.

Winners

• Sarah Grace Smith
• Lily Wagner

$750 awarded to the first-place student group and $250 to the second-place group for demonstrating excellence in professional writing produced in English 3304. Honoraria are also awarded to the instructors.

First-place winners

• John Elliot
• Katie Everetts
• Tammy Nguyen

Second-place winners

• Paden Dvoor
• Katie Giffin
• Thao Nguyen

This $4,500 award is given to an undergraduate student and is to be used for the improvement of their professional writing abilities. Candidates must be majoring in any science, technology or engineering discipline and minoring in professional writing in the Department of English.

Winner

• Grace Oswald

$1,500 for the best group of poems by any Ohio State English major.

Winner

• Connor Harding

Honorable mention

• Bemni Amsalu

First place $750; second place $350; third place $200 for the best piece of creative writing (any genre) by an undergraduate woman.

First-place winner

• Hana Le

Second-place winner

• Anukriti Tayal

Third-place winner

• Lena Zhang

First place $600; second place $300; third place $150 for the best short story by an undergraduate.

First-place winner

• Leighanna Gregorek

Second-place winner

• Sarah Grace Smith

Third-place winner

• Alexandra Parthun

$100 for the best essay or nonfiction book chapter by an undergraduate student.

Winner

• Tahsin Naimi

This $11,000 scholarship is awarded to an Ohio State English major who has demonstrated a serious interest in Creative Writing. It may be used for tuition and fees, room and board, and other educational expenses. This scholarship has been generously provided by author R.L. Stine, an Ohio State English alumnus (B.A. 1965) and award-winning author of children’s horror stories including the famous Goosebumps series.

Winner

• Cynthia Lynn Schneider

$100 recognizing outstanding student digital media project(s) completed in an undergraduate course in the Department of English.

Winners

• Zoe Fields
• Donald Neidecker-Gonzalez
• Rachel Stewart
• Mara Vavaroutsos

$50 for a researched essay that best demonstrates excellence in analysis, use of researched materials and academic form; sponsored by Cengage Publishing.

Winners

• Marvin Davies
• Krysten Noseal 

These two awards are designed to recognize critical and scholarly writing by undergraduates enrolled in lower- and upper-division Shakespeare courses, including advanced English courses in which Shakespeare is taught.

Lower-division winner

• Aagam Dalal

Upper-division winner

• Paige Fritz

Upper-division honorable mention

• Madison Good

Open to undergraduate students of all colleges and majors throughout the university, the Lord Denney’s Players sonnet competition is designed to encourage creative expression modeled on Shakespeare’s most famous poetic form.

First-place winner

• Charity Ervin

Second-place winner

• Rheanna Velasquez

Honorable mentions

• Tony Annerino
• Ema Davis

Named in honor of Ohio State Emeritus English Professor David Frantz, this $500 award recognizes the most outstanding thesis completed by an English major during the previous three semesters.

Winner

• Matthew Urwin

Honorable mentions

• Cecilia Hardy
• Rachel Stewart

This scholarship recognizes an excellent English major who demonstrates financial need. Preference is given to students who graduated from high schools in the Appalachia region and students who are first-generation college students, students who have overcome substantial educational or economic obstacles, or students who have experience living or working in diverse environments. The recipient of this award receives a $2250 scholarship.

Winner

• Alexandria Karpacs-Brown

This $250 award is given to the best undergraduate academic paper or multi-modal project concerned with the literature, rhetoric, narrative, folklore, histories, laws and/or cultural practices of human rights. 

Winner

• Lily Wagner

The Robert N. and Sharon S. Gandee Endowed Scholarship awards $1,000 to a junior or senior English major with a declared Pre-Education concentration who is a graduate of public high school, who demonstrates financial need and who demonstrates leadership abilities.

Winner

• Tanesha Desamours

The Denney Award is the most prestigious award offered by the Department of English. This $500 prize goes to the most outstanding graduating English major.

Winner

• Hana Le

Nominees

• Joseph Belsan
• Sarah Knott
• Ashley Tschakert

The $500 Reiter scholarship recognizes the finest critical and scholarly writing by an undergraduate enrolled in an upper-level Department of English course.

Winner

• Ruby Napora

The $500 Sena award is designed to recognize and encourage excellence in English studies at the undergraduate level. It is awarded to a student who shows tremendous potential as an English major.

Winner

• Ema Davis

This scholarship recognizes excellence in an English major from an under-represented Ohio State student population.

Winner

• Joi Davis