It was a busy end-of-the year season for the Kidd Workshops. We were happy to continue our partnership with UO’s Undergraduate Research Symposium, with 25 Kidd students doing creative presentations during the May 25^th event. The students competed for URS’s Kidd Program Award, which recognizes excellent literary readings from students enrolled in the Kidd Program. We had so many compelling readings, making it very difficult to choose our winners but here they are:

In the Poetry category, the winners were: 1^st Place ($150): Kelly Kleinberg. 2^nd Place ($100): Cash Robinson.

In the Fiction category, 1^st Place ($150): Abigail Punches and 2^nd Place ($100): Sarah Stover.

We celebrated the Kidd Students in a two-day end-of-year reading, where each Kidd student read from their work. We also distributed the 2022-23 Kidd Workshops Anthology, which features each student’s best work from the year. In addition, we awarded the LOI Prizes, given to the best Line-of-Inquiry craft essay written in the program. Congrats to the Kidd Workshop students and all they have accomplished throughout the year.

Fiction:

2^nd place ($50): Isabella Senatori, Saunders’ Satire: an Appeal to Empathy as Moral Economic Intervention

1^st place ($200): Sarah Stover, Color Imagery: How to Interpret Color in Stories

Poetry:

2^nd Place: ($50): Phillip Chan, Melancholia and Memory: On the Taiwanese American Identity of Victoria Chang’s Poetry

1^st Place: ($200): Kristine Marek, Metaphor and the Search for Consolation in Elegy 

Congrats to all of our students!