Winners in the 2023 Arts and Letters Awards Program

Junior Division

Junior Poetry

($350 prize) Adjudicators: Mohamed Madiou, Nellie Strowbridge, Linda Coles

Jacob Rose I can do it
Bailey Bennett Death Calls
Sofia Butler Escape
Awsten Goodyear Dysphoria
Jade Collins You Aren’t Trying Hard Enough
Holly Fillier Intercalative Dolour
Dakota Squires Change Our Ending
Ashley Chippett What Does it Mean to be a Woman

Junior Prose   

($350 prize) Adjudicators: Debbie Robins, Dane Gill

Connor Keefe Love and Magic
Ava Hodder Plagued Promise
Lillian Carter Swinging
Ayla Orbasli Don’t Go There!
Emma Troake The Fight
Megan Smith Iris
Kathleen O’Rourke Living in a Dead Girl’s Diary
Maurizio Hunter Barberio Eternal darkness

Junior French Literary 

($350 prize) Adjudicator: Jeremy Pommier

Nyamae Alloway Le vacuum

Junior Music  

($350 prize) Adjudicators: Stephanie Bowring, Rosemary Lawton

Max Steffen Predictable
Darcy Scott Your Name
Francis Kennedy Darla
Summer Bennett Lightning

 Junior Visual Art

($350 prize) Adjudicators: Rachel Gilbert, Kelly Bruton

Emily Miller Untitled
Elisabeth Sheppard Little White House
Sierra Kennedy How did we get Here?
Chloe Regular A Bountiful Quest
Alida Zedel All That Eye Can See
Julia Cole Faerie Trap
Kanto Ratsimandresy Agathe
Zora Maskova Fish Spotted

 

 

Senior Division

Senior Poetry

($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Heather Nolan, Charis Cotter

Douglas Walbourne-Gough Now is Not the Time
Nancy Shepherd Bragg Over There
Craig Francis Power Walking My Three Year Old To Nanny’s Place, Easter Sunday 2017 [no excerpt]
Sharon King-Campbell Untitled #48; February 10, 2022

  

Senior Short Fiction

($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Willow Kean, Samanda Stroud

Emma Cole Shards
Ian Foster Hang in There
Molly Clarke Roadkill
Khadija Rehma What Could Have Been

 

Senior Nonfiction  

($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Terry Doyle

Andreae Callanan Can’t Help But Notice
Connie Boland Memories are Like Shrapnel
Natalie Dalton All the Things I did not Know and Wouldn’t Have Believed Anyway

 

Senior Dramatic Script 

($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Jennifer Deon

Alexa Jerrett “Seal’s Kin”
Michelle T Clemens Show Down

  

Senior French Literary

($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Jeremy Pommier

Coline Tisserand Balcon

  

Percy Janes First Novel Award 

($2,500 prize) Adjudicator: Michelle Butler Hallett

Malcolm Kempt Nightfall

  

Senior Music 

($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Stephanie Bowring, Rosemary Lawton

Zach Dalley Subterranean
Jake Nicoll Asking for Forgiveness
Lorna Lovell Come Home
Ian Foster Gossamer

  

Senior Media Arts

($1,000 prize) Adjudicator: Anna Wheeler

Melissa Wong The Boulevard’s Black and White Ghost

  

Senior Visual Art 

($1,000 prize) Adjudicators: Rose Bouthillier, Janice Hertel, Michelle Bush

Melissa Putt Capturing the Afternoon Sunlight
Michelle Churchill The Fury
Anastasia Tiller Levitating in Reverie
Nicolas (Nick) Kokis The Cat Who Leaps at Butterflies
Olivia Stacey Fireweed Jelly
Kelly Bastow Sunset Saunter
Ellen Power Among the Sandbanks
Marie Lugli A study of time and place, 2022
Kendall Sweeney Reminders of Sunday
Jennifer Bautista Still Waters
Frank Barry The Wound
Joshua Mack Birds Foraging off Cape Spear