Undergraduate Writing Prizes
Each year, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Poetry Award and the Seth Barkas Prize in Creative Writing honor the most promising undergraduate writers in the genres of Poetry and Fiction. All NYU students who have taken an Advanced Writing Workshop (in the V39 range) in the Fall or Spring semesters of the respective year are eligible to be nominated. Nominations are made by the Advanced Workshop faculty members. The winner in each genre receives a modest honorarium and is honored at the university's award ceremony in the spring.
The Thomas Wolfe Memorial Poetry Award was generously donated by Professors Cargill and Pollock from royalties on their book, Thomas Wolfe at Washington Square. The Seth Barkas Prize in Creative Writing was established in loving memory of Seth Barkas (NYU Class of 1966).
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Seth Barkas Prize 2003
First Place: Amalea Smirniotopoulos
Honorable Mention: Edward P. Thompson
Thomas Wolfe Award 2003
First Place:
Second Place: Emily Metzner
Seth Barkas Prize 2004
First Place: Brendan Kelly & Fred Nicolaus
Thomas Wolfe Award 2004
First Place:
Second Place: Kendra Sullivan
Seth Barkas Prize 2005
First Place: Tao Lin
Second Place: Max Ross
Thomas Wolfe Award 2005
First Place: David Alworth
Seth Barkas Prize 2006
First Place: Ryan Grim
Second Place: Jacqueline Orlando
Thomas Wolfe Award 2006
First Place: Zachary Greenwald
Second Place: Reed Rosenberg
