Past Creative Writing Awards
One of our students’ assignments during their first clinical experience is to begin a journal. Through their journal they can watch their own transformation. Through their writing we can understand contemporary nursing and midwifery through the eyes, hands, and feelings of these remarkable students and soon-to-be APRNs.
YSN’s annual Creative Writing Awards are enlivened by the inspirational presence of YSN Professor Linda Honan. Yale nursing students submit their narratives, journal entries, and other creative writing for consideration of one of three significant student awards. This annual gathering, beloved by our community, also features prominent writers and thinkers.
Congratulations and thanks to our students, alumni, sponsors, judges and the Creative Writing Committee for your help in making our event successful and enjoyable.
2022
Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope: The 2022 Creative Writing Awards
Sajni Persad ‘23 - “My Most Dearest Ruthie”
Michaela Gabrielle Serafica ‘24 - “Dancing in my Golden Terno”
Gayelan Tietje-Ulrich ‘24 - “Paperwhites”
2021
Camila Soto Espinoza ‘21 - “Monotony”
Maxwell Shaw-Jones ‘23 - “His Feet”
Tim McGehee ‘22 - ” ‘Pain, You Say?’ A Nursing Home Monologue”
2020
Amy Isabelle ‘20 - “Med Math in a World on Fire”
Josh Kwan ‘21 - “I See Mee”
Camila Soto Espinoza ‘21 - “Focus”
2019
Camila Soto Espinoza ’21 - “The Women of My Family”
Diane Kim ‘20 - “The Anatomy Lesson”
Cale Wardell ‘20 - “A Small White Card”
2018
Lisa Rich ‘18 - “A Prayer for the Dying”
Moya Anne Meckel ‘19 - “Chapstick”
Rachel Blatt ‘20 - “You, Again?”
Mariah Baril-Dore ‘20 - “A Stolen Glance”
2017
Chimene Diomi ‘17 - “Mwana Ya Mabele”
Jessica Kelly-Hauser ‘18
Elizabeth Renker ‘19
2016
Kellie Kozel ‘18 - “Conversations With a DeadHead”
Leah Mahwinney ‘18 - “Mr. Duffy”
Lisa Rich ‘18 - “The Colon is Easier”
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