2021 Cunningham Writing Contest Winners

First Place: “'I'll Make a Subversive Reading Out of You': How Disney's Mulan Works Against the Patriarchal Gender Binary and Compulsory Heterosexuality" by Jessica Griffioen

Second Place & Student Choice Award: “Apologetic Speech Patterns in Women"

Third Place:  “Literary Analysis of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah" by Parker Tillmon

First Place:  "My Mother's Ghost" by Meghan Schrader

Second Place: “Metaphorical Lover" by Eden Diller

Third Place: "Moonlight" by Amelia Mills

Honorable Mention: "Things I Learnt in America" by Upasana Shrestha

Student Choice Award: "Gold" by Isabel Newcom

First Place: "Don't Ask. Don't Tell." by Alaina Sallee

Second Place: "The accent of you" by Upasana Shrestha

Third Place & Student Choice Award: "The Five Stages of Grief for the Young, Dumb, and Broken" by Meghan Schrader

First Place & Student Choice Award: “Cake and Dirt" by Kendra Truesdale

Second Place: "A Work in Progress" by Amelia Mills

Third Place: "Piano" by Andrea Davenport