* 1st Place “The Boy: The Blacksmith” by Robert Slattery
* 2nd Place “Free Drinks for Anarchists” by Jessica Rose
* 3rd Place “Footsteps in the Sky” by Sheree Turner
* 1st Place Not Awarded
* 2nd Place (tie) “The Rise of Starbucks” by Lydia Tolman
“American Brat” by Danielle Deakin
* 3rd Place “Clinton/Obama” by Kenneth Kruse
1st Place: Shaun Brown, "Never Sleeping Dogs Lie"
2nd Place: Ashley Martin, "Art Fakes and Forgeries: Fooling the Art Industry"
3rd Place: S. Danell Munyan, "Seven Treacherous Miles"
1st Place: Jacob Pantoja, "Family Ties"
2nd Place: Grant Penrod, "Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids"
3rd Place*: Linda Hill, "The Fight Against Teen Sleep Deprivation: High Schools Must Adopt Later Start Times"
3rd Place*: Tricia Marie Rader, "Sex: A Bad Thing?"
*Tie
Editor's Note: ASU Department of English Instructor Debra Schwartz passed away in early May 2016 while on a camping trip in Northern Arizona. The department held a memorial for her on May 20. Several dozen friends, faculty, and students attended to share their fond stories of her.
Wonderful and rewarding things have happened for Department of English alumna Angie O’Neal since she earned her PhD in 2007. During the 2008 Modern Language Association conference, Angie interviewed with Shorter University, a small four-year university in Rome, Georgia. This led to an offer of a tenure-track position and her departure from the Sonoran desert for the lush greenness of her home state of Georgia, with daughters Marin and Maeve.
Editor's note: Larry Ellis is a Lecturer Sr. in the ASU Department of English, as well as an English alumnus (MA 1997; PhD 2003). His undergraduate degree in history, also from ASU (1975), inspired the piece below. He teaches and researches on topics related to literature and folklore; he is also a new affiliate of the Creative Writing Program. See how many literary and pop culture references you can count here ...
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