The Creative Writing – Kidd Program Award, sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Division of Undergraduate Education and Student Success, recognizes excellent creative work presentations from students currently enrolled in the Walter and Nancy Kidd Creative Writing Workshops. For the creative presentations, students will give a literary reading of their creative work.
Eligibility Criteria: Open to current UO undergraduate students who are enrolled in the Kidd Program workshop.
Award Amounts: Two (2) $150 Awards: Best Fiction Presentation, Best Poetry Presentation; Two (2) $100 Honorable Mention Awards: Fiction Presentation, Poetry Presentation.
Current Recipients
Piper Bringman '27
Major: Psychology
Project: "Cycle."
2025 $150 Best Fiction Award
Chago Gause '26
Major: Theater Arts
Project: "Tensions between modernity and tradition in Native American poetry"
2025 $100 Honorable Mention Poetry Award
Jude Lee '25
Major: English
Project: "The Kaleidoscope of Poetic Form"
2025 $150 Poetry Award
Elliot McLain '26
Major: Comparative Literature
Project: "Against Plot Structure: Storytelling Through Subversive Narrative Cohesion"
2025 $100 Honorable Mention Fiction Award
Prior Recipients
Andrew Barron '22
Major: Cinema Studies
Project: "One More Thing"
2021 $100 Honorable Mention Poetry Award
Amelia Hamerlynck '23
Major: Anthropology
Project: "Her body was a new and ancient rite': Contemporary Queer and Woman+ Poets Rewriting Ancient Greece"
2021 $150 Award
Savannah Johnson '25
Major: Cinema Studies
Project: "Sneakers"
2024 $100 Honorable Mention Fiction Award
Danielle Richard '25
Major: English
Project: "Poetry Collection: Florida Refrain"
2024 $150 Poetry Award
Zoe Schneider '26
Major: Advertising
Project: "Poolside"
2024 $150 Fiction Award
Liam Serwin '25
Major: Comparative Literature
Project: "A Girl's World"
2024 $100 Honorable Mention Fiction Award
Emma Snyder '22
Major: Linguistics
Project: "Confessional Poetry, and the Liberation of the Invisibly Ill Poet"
2021 $100 Honorable Mention Award
Mia Vance '22
Major: English
Project: "We Make Magnificence: Original Poems for Page and Stage"
2021 $150 Poetry Award