Awards and Honors of MFA Students in Creative Writing
and Writing for the Performing Arts
Neil Aitken (current MFA student)
- Fellowship to Idyllwild Summer Poetry Program (2005)
- Prairie Poetry Friends' Prize (2004)
- Prairie Poetry Peer Award (2003 & 2004)
Sherry Brandon (2004 graduate)
- First Harry Lawton Award for Screenwriting (2005)
Elizabeth Chatterton (2005 graduate)
- U.C. system-wide Poet Laureate Award (2005)
Kevin Cramer (current MFA student)
- Play, "Searching for Mari," was nominated for best playwright and best production at the Pittsburgh New Works Festival (2002).
- Play "As far as Spokane," finalist, Reva Shiner full-length play contest (2004) Bloomington, Indiana.
- Play, "Beartooth," nominated for best production, Pittsburgh New Works Festival (2004).
- Also produced at Outlaws Underground Theatre, State College, PA (February 2005).
- Professional productions: "Boom," Outlaws Underground Theatre, State College, PA (March 2003) and as part of the Patriot Acts Festival at the Alliance Repertory Co., Burbank, CA (August 2004)
Alba Cruz-Hacker (current MFA student)
- Pushcart Prize Nomination (2003)
Carolina Gabriela Jauregui (current MFA student)
- 1st place winner, Denise L. Scott Memorial Poetry Contest, Loyola Marymount University (2001)
Rebecca O’Connor (current MFA student)
- Fellowship to the San Juan Writer's Workshops (2005)
- Albert and Elaine Borchard Fellowship to attend Tomales Bay Workshops for creative nonfiction (2005)
Victoria Smith Patterson (current MFA student)
- Nonfiction prize from Snake Nation Press (2005)
Stephen Sloane (current MFA student)
- Chancellor’s Performance Award in Creative Writing (2002-2003)
Kandie St.Germain (current MFA student)
- Author of Closet Drama, a full-length collection of poetry, Bear Star Press (2001)
- Poems published in over thirty literary magazines, including Arshile, The Sonora Review, Puerto del Sol, and Artful Dodge
- California State University Creative Writing Program Award for Poetry
- Plays for youth, Dinner in Oz, A Midsummer Night’s Teen, After Ever Happily, and Paper Umbrellas published by Eldridge Plays and Musicals
Valerie Stulman (current MFA student)
- Semi-finalist, AFI Women's directing project (2000)
- Semi-finalist, Chesterfield Screenplay writing competition (2000)
Ky-Phong Tran (current MFA student)
- Fiction Scholarship to participate in the Voices of Our Nation Workshop--the only workshop in the nation for writers of color-- at the University of San Francisco (2005)
- Studied at VONA with Cristina Garcia, a National Book Award Finalist for her novel Dreaming in Cuban (2005)