2015 Hugh Spagnuolo Writing in Excellence Award Winners:

First Place – Kirsten Smith –
The Bluest Eye: A Story of Race, Beauty, Self-Image and Social Injustice

Second Place – Kayleen Petrovia –
Societal Norms in Modern Japan and Murakami's English-language Collection,The Elephant Vanishes

Past Winners

2014 Hugh Spagnuolo Writing in Excellence Award Winners:

• First Place - Madison Jones
  Learning to Stand Tall: Analyzing Patty Lovell’s Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon
• Second Place - Michael Brown
  1984, A Warning
• Third Place - Nicholas Kilpatrick
  Institutions in Oliver Twist: Workhouse, Fagin’s Gang and Family

2013 Hugh Spagnuolo Writing in Excellence Award Winner:

Sexually Stimulating and Tastefully Titillating
by Patrick Mullen

Essay #1 - Valerie Forrest
Essay #2 - Kelly Christopherson
Essay #3 - Deborah Turner