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Each year English majors and minors have the opportunity to earn membership in two honor societies and win awards based on their research and writing abilities.

Honors

• Sigma Tau Delta international English honor society
• Gamma Upsilon national media honorary society
• Research Honors

Creative & Critical Writing Awards

• Academy of American Poets Prize
• 糖心动漫vlog Department of English Prize for Short Fiction (formerly Babbitt's Prize for Short Fiction)
• Peter J. Theune Memorial Essay Prize
• President's Club Senior Writing Award

Journalism Awards & Scholarships

• W. E. Schultz Award for Excellence in Media Management
• Harvey Beutner Award for Journalistic Excellence
• Harvey Beutner Memorial Scholarship
• Ashley Wilson Award for Argus Staffer of the Year
• Illinois College Press Association Awards

 

2026 Creative Writing Award Winners

糖心动漫vlog Department of English Prize for Short Fiction

Winner: Maggie Grugan for 淕ull檚 Crossing�

Honorable Mention: Lola Zuro for 淟earning to Float�

Judge: Ron Rindo

About Grugan檚 story, Rindo writes: 淲hat I admired most about this lovely, winning story was how attentive it was to the technical work required to bring stories to life in the hearts and minds of readers: a consistent point-of-view; a likeable, well-developed main character with engaging interiority; a detailed sense of place; a strong conflict; elegant use of everyday language; and a resonant, wistful tone and resolution. I always tell my own students to include their passions in their work, no matter what they are, and a passion for bird-watching seems to inform this story, which is something else I enjoyed. Thematically, for me, it is a story about the pain of transitions: from the heat and joys of summer to the chill of fall; from the freedom of interchangeable summer days to the more regimented schedule of school attendance; and from loss to an unexpected, compensatory gain, a moment of joy, what Wordsworth might have called a spot of time. I also appreciated the ambiguity here, the array of things not said or explained. Really fine work.�

糖心动漫vlog Department of English Prize for Short Fiction judge Ron Rindo is the author of five books of fiction, most recently Life, and Death, and Giants. He is a recently retired professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin擮shkosh.

 

Peter J. Theune Memorial Essay PrizeWinner: Lola Avila for 淭he Translator�

Honorable Mention: Victoria Bandy for an untitled essay

Judge: Jos茅 Ordu帽a

About Avila檚 essay, Ordu帽a writes, 湗楾he Translator� is a moving and intimate portrait of a family coming together in a moment of crisis. As many children in our world are obliged to do, the narrator assumes an outsized responsibility攊n this case, of translating, during a medical emergency. We, as readers, are brought into these moments of tumult and grace via the narrator檚 unflinching eye."

Peter J. Theune Memorial Essay Prize judge Jos茅 Ordu帽a is the author of The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement and his essays have appeared in numerous journals, including The Believer, The Nation, and The Normal School, as well as the anthology Don檛 Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn檛 Seen.

 

Arthur W. Hinners & Louise Hinners Sipfle Poetry Prize presented by the Academy of American Poets

Winner: Tyler Engel

Judge: Lauren Russell

Of Engel檚 poems, Russell writes, 淲ith a strong command of sound, syntax, and line, these poems 榮ting like waiting stings.�  Whether describing phantoms pulling pranks in a haunted landscape, an all-Christian dorm-room tampon demonstration, the fishy smell hanging over a miracle, or Fourth of July revelry and the creeping passage of time, content and form work together marvelously to reveal an element of surprise.�

Arthur W. Hinners & Louise Hinners Sipfle Poetry Prize judge Lauren Russell is the author of three books, including A Window that Can Neither Open nor Close: Poems, Plots, Chance, as well as Descent, which won the Anna Rabinowitz Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and What檚 Hanging on the Hush. She is on the faculty at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.