Samuel Larue Finley Humorous Writing Contest Results

2024-2025

Grand Prize $500 to Eva Fottrell for “The Evasive Vase”. [English]

Honor Prizes for Short-Short (<500 words) Category:

$100 to Hava Herzog for “Warning: Subaru Crossing.” [Journalism]

$100 to Stefanie Pace for “Every Medicine Commercial Ever.” [Psychology]

$100 to Isaac Dempsey for “Fireworks.” [Creative Media & Film]

Honor Prizes for Column (500–750 Words) Category:

$100 to Samantha Popowski for “The iPad Baby Hunger Games.” [Visual Communication]

$100 to Rachel Lemons for “Diary Entries to my Bald Head.” [Communication Studies]

$100 to Rebecca Heiselman for “Green Goose Gone.” [Strategic Communications]

Grand Prize $500 to Katarzyna Koston for “The Differences Between My Cheating Ex-Boyfriend & My Roommate’s Chihuahua.” [Program: English]

Honor Prizes Short-Short (<500 words):

$100 to Isaac Dempsey for “Eulogy for a Loaf.” [Program: Creative Media & Film—Media Studies]

$100 to Grace Meinema for “Is It a Taylor Swift Song or a Behr Paint Color?” [Program: Journalism]

Honor Prizes Story or Column (500–750 words)

$100 to Rachel Lemons for “The Not So Secret Life of Pets.” [Program: Journalism]

$100 to Bryce Rynders for “The College Experience: Expectations vs. Reality.” [Program: Psychology]

$100 to Eva Fottrell for “Coffee and Cough Syrup.” [Program: Biomedical Science]

Grand Prize to Rachel Lemons (Journalism) for her Short-Short Entry: “Which Came First?”
Honor Prize Winner, Michael Eggert (Creative Media & Film) for his Short-Short Entry: “Brett Pets the Fluffy Cow.”
Honor Prize Winner, Isaac Dempsey (Psychology) for his Short-Short Entry: “Report From the Convention on Literary Conventions.”
Honor Prize Winner, Emily Ford (Social Work) for her Short-Short Entry: “Crazy Cat Lady?”
Honor Prize Winner, Isaiah Acevedo (Psychology & Biology) for his Column Entry: “Misty is Mad.”
Honor Prize Winner, Olivia Charlson (Journalism) for her Column Entry: “Avocado Afterlife.”
Honor Prize Winner, Fritz Pierre (Master of Computer Information Technology) for his Column Entry: “The Unfortunate Encounter.”

Grand Prize, $300, to Amanda Skonvold, BS in Strategic Communication, for “Satan’s Replacement.”
First Place, $200, to Danielle Frederic, BSED in Elementary Ed, for “The Taming of a College Student.”
Second Place, $150, to Daniel Swaim, MA in Professional Writing, for “The Baby Brother Support Group.”
Third Place, $100, to Melissa Becker, MEd in Ed Leadership, for “The Duck and the Seagull.”
Honorable Mention, $75, to Karen McCoy, MFA in Creative Writing, for “To the Humans Who Keep Me Locked in the House.”