{"id":10166,"date":"2025-06-24T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:07:08","slug":"2025-morgan-award-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/2025\/06\/24\/2025-morgan-award-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Morgan Award Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Writing Studio celebrates undergraduate writing and all that undergraduate writers are capable of, and we congratulate the winners of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/morgan-award\/\">2025 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h2>Winners of the 2025 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/135\/2025\/06\/2025-Morgan-Award-Winners.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10163 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2025\/06\/2025-Morgan-Award-Winners-663x1024.png\" alt=\"This colorful image is a poster announcing the winners of the 2025 Morgan Award for First-Year Writers\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/135\/2025\/06\/2025-Morgan-Award-Winners-663x1024.png 663w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/135\/2025\/06\/2025-Morgan-Award-Winners-768x1186.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/135\/2025\/06\/2025-Morgan-Award-Winners-995x1536.png 995w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/135\/2025\/06\/2025-Morgan-Award-Winners.png 1295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a>1st Place<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jiayu Huang<\/strong> \u201cRed\u201d (fiction)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2nd Place<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Justin Schwab<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cStatehood, Supplies, and the New South: Constructed Images in the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition\u2019s Promotional Map\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3rd Place<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shayda Oliaei<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe Inexpressible In-Between\u201d (non-fiction)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David You<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPersonhood, Value, Animals, and Robots\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">Thanks to all who entered their writing!<\/h3>\n<p>We want to offer a note of thanks, too, to all of the authors who entered their compositions for consideration in this year&#8217;s Morgan Award competition.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Morgan Award competition received over <strong>160\u00a0submissions<\/strong>&#8211;essays, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more&#8211;all by Vanderbilt&#8217;s first-year undergraduates. That&#8217;s a lot of writing!<\/p>\n<p>After giving careful consideration to this body of work, the committee felt inspired by and grateful for the chance to see the fruits of our first-year students&#8217; academic and creative labors as writers and thinkers. From this auspicious beginning, we sincerely hope that each and every one of you will continue to <strong>dare to grow<\/strong> as writers throughout the rest of your time at Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit our page on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/morgan-award\/\">annual Morgan Award competition<\/a>. You might also scroll through our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/morgan-award\/gallery-of-morgan-award-winners\/\"><em>Gallery of Morgan Award Winners<\/em><\/a> that now stretches from 2014, when organizing this longstanding annual competition first came under the Writing Studio&#8217;s purview, to this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Writing Studio celebrates undergraduate writing and all that undergraduate writers are capable of, and we congratulate the winners of the 2025 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers! Winners of the 2025 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers 1st Place Jiayu Huang \u201cRed\u201d (fiction) 2nd Place Justin Schwab\u00a0\u201cStatehood, Supplies, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,5],"tags":[19,20,21],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}