The University has announced 22 winners of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing, the nation’s oldest competitions for student writers.

The awards are funded by a bequest from Avery Hopwood, a 1905 U-M graduate and successful Broadway playwright, and Jule Hopwood, his mother. Past winners include Arthur Miller, John Ciardi and Marge Piercy. The contests were judged by John Lofy, LSA lecturer I; Brenda Marshall, LSA lecturer III; Angela Bommarito, School of Social Work student; and Joseph Heininger, LSA lecturer I.

Winners of the Hopwood Underclassmen Contest and in the poetry division are:

Robyn Anspach of Ann Arbor, $1,750, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship

Uyen Bui of Solon, Ohio, $1,000, Fall Hopwood Fiction Contest

Jeremiah Chamberlin of Ann Arbor, $1,500, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship

Jeffrey Cravens of Lawrence, Kan., $500, Fall Hopwood Fiction Contest

Steven Dabrowski of Park Ridge, Ill., $1,500, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Scholarship

Carlin Danz of Wyandotte, $700, Fall Hopwood Fiction Contest

Sarah Eisenberg of Gregory, $800, Fall Hopwood Poetry Contest

Irene Hahn of Woodbridge, Conn., $1,750, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship

Suzanne Hancock of Qualicum, British Columbia, Canada, $350, The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry

Hannah Holtzman of Ann Arbor, $1,250, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship

Donovan Hohn of Ann Arbor, $1,250, Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship; $100, The Academy of American Poets, Graduate Division

Rachael Hudak of Lake Orion, $700, Fall Hopwood Poetry Contest

Margaret LeDuc of Washington, $800, Fall Hopwood Essay Contest

Miriam Tova Levine of Huntington Woods, $800, Fall Hopwood Fiction ‘Contest

Caroline Martin of Grosse Pointe Woods, $500, Fall Hopwood Poetry Contest

Erin Morris of Ypsilanti, $800, Fall Hopwood Poetry Contest

Esther Neff of Goshen, Ind., $250, Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry; $500, Jeffrey L. Weinberg Memorial Prize in Poetry

Michael Pifer of Kalamazoo, $1,250, for two essays in Fall Hopwood Contest

Ranya Raghavan of Briarcliff, N.Y., $700 in Fall Hopwood Essay Contest; $400, Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry

Michelle Regalado Deatrick of Ann Arbor, $200, The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize

Rachel Richardson of Berkeley, Calif., $200, The Bain-Swiggert Poetry Prize

Sarah Rubin of Howell, $100, The Academy of American Poets, Undergraduate Division