The 2023-2024 University of Waterloo Department of English Language and Literature Awards Ceremony was held on Friday, April 5, 2024. Congratulations to all our award winners!
Award Ceremony Image Gallery
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Nadia Khan recieves the Albert Shaw Poetry Prize (Honourable mention) from Dr. Megan Selinger.
Andie Kaiser receives the Andrew James Dugan Prize in Literature.
Jillian Franz receives the Andrew James Dugan Prize in Rhetoric and Professional Writing.
Hanna Freitas receives the Canadian Literature Prize from Dr. Andrew McMurray.
Vyshnavi Rajeevan receives the Co-op Reflective Report Award from Dr. Victoria Lamont.
Award donor Sara Kannan introduces the Diaspora and Transnational Studies Prize.
Naomi Francis receives the Diaspora and Transnational Studies Prize from award donor Sara Kannan and Dr. Clive Forrester.
Maria Brokalakis receives the Donald R. and Mary E. Snider Literary Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction Writing.
Kassandra Lynne Attwood receives the English Society Creative Writing Award for Poetry from Dr. Sarah Tolmie.
Kassandra Lynne Attwood reads her winning poetry entry.
Sara Funduk receives the English Society Creative Writing Award for Prose from Dr. Sarah Tolmie.
Sara Funduk reads from her winning fiction entry.
Award donor Tania Del Matto introduces the Janice Del Matto Memorial Award in Creative Writing.
Sebrina Bank Joergensen receives the Janice Del Matto Memorial Award in Creative Writing from award donor Tania Del Matto and Dr. Tristanne Connolly.
Sebrina Bank Joergensen reads the winning entry for the Janice Del Matto Memorial Award in Creative Writing.
Award donor Nancy Mattes introduces the Olive Carrick Scholarship in English.
Nadia Khan receives the Olive Carrick Scholarship in English from award donor Nancy Mattes (l.) and Dr. Victoria Lamont (r.)
Aidan de Villa-Choi and Yingying Huang receive the Rhetoric and Digital Design Award from Dr. Brianna Wiens.
Amaya Kodituwakku receives the Rhetoric and Professional Writing Award from Dr. Brianna Wiens.
Patricia Fagan receives the G.R. Hibbard Shakespeare Prize from Dr. Ken Graham.
Chloe Shantz receives the Walter R. Martin English 251 Award from Dr. Ken Graham.
Varsha Thulasi Pillai receives the Beltz Essay Prize, MA from Dr. Megan Selinger.
Sarah Casey receives the Beltz Essay Prize, PhD from Dr. Megan Selinger.
Anna McWebb and Shannon Lodoen receive the David Nimmo English Graduate Scholarship from Dr. Kate Lawson.
Sophie Morgan receives the English Rhetoric Essay Award, MA, from Dr. Kate Lawson.
Carolyn Eckert receives the English Rhetoric Essay Award, PhD, from Dr. Kate Lawson.
Sarah Casey receives the English Rhetoric Essay Award, PhD (honourable mention) from Dr. Kate Lawson.
Christopher Rogers receives the Gladys Srivastava Graduate Scholarship from Dr. Jennifer Clary-Lemon.
Ariel Fullerton receives the Graduate Co-op Work Report Award from Dr. Jennifer Clary-Lemon.
Maab Al-Rashdan receives the Graduate Creative Writing Award from Dr. Jennifer Clary-Lemon.
Maab Al-Rashdan reads her winning entry.
Alyssa Clarkson receives the Graduate Professional Communication Award from Dr. George Lamont.
Chris Martin receives the Independent Graduate Instructor Award for Excellence in Teaching from Dr. Dorothy Hadfield.
Kellie Chouinard and Humaira Shoaib receive the Lea Vogel-Nimmo English Graduate Professionalization Award from Dr. Jennifer Clary-Lemon.
Damilola Adebajo receives the TA Award for Excellence in Teaching from Dr. Bruce Dadey.
Humaira Shoaib receives the W. K. Thomas Graduate Scholarship from Dr. Bruce Dadey.
