The UT Creative Writing Program announces the winners of its yearly writing contests for students. The 2011 contest winners will read from their award-winning works at an event sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and Writers in the Library. The reading will take place on Tuesday, April 19, at 7 pm in 1210 McClung Tower. Undergraduate winners will read at 7 pm; graduates, at 8 pm. The readings are free and open to the public.

Winners of the undergraduate creative writing prizes are:

ROBERT A. BURKE AWARD FOR FICTION
First Prize: Will McClure for “Keep Driving”
Second Prize: Cynthia Bentley, “When Peace Comes”

ELEANORA BURKE AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
First Prize: Faith Barger, “Survivor’s Guilt”
Second Prize: Stephanie Riggs, “Out to Lunch”

BAIN-SWIGGETT POETRY PRIZE
First Prize: Logan Murphy, “Dive, a Sestina”
Second Prize: Jeremy Brunger, “The Fisherman”

KNICKERBOCKER POETRY PRIZE
First Prize: Allison Yilling, “Cusco”
Second Prize: Ryan Butz, “And Yet”

Winners of the JOHN C. HODGES GRADUATE WRITING PRIZES are:

POETRY
First prize: Josh Robbins
Second prize: Charlotte Pence
Third prize (a tie): Beth Kefauver and Tawnysha Greene

FICTION
First prize: Beth Kefauver, for “Lizard Girl”
Second prize: Tawynsha Greene, “Eskimo Days”
Third prize: Charlotte Pence, “What’s Left Undone”

The graduate writing prizes were endowed by the same long-time UT English professor for whom UT’s John C. Hodges Main Library is named.