Williams Prize
2023-2024 Williams Prize
Established in 1908 by Edward H. Williams, professor of geology and mechanical engineering, the Williams Prizes recognize outstanding work in writing and performance. To be eligible for the prizes, all work submitted must have been completed in a Lehigh course or internship and written after the date of April 22, 2023 with direct or indirect supervision by Lehigh instructors.
Considerations:
In your file upload, ensure your personal information is removed from the file. This includes your name, class name, faculty member who assigned project, etc. Submissions will be rejected if identifying information is not removed.
- Only material written by you for a Lehigh course may be submitted.
- Only essays completed after April 22, 2023 are eligible.
- Presidential Scholars are not eligible.
- Limit: two entries per category.
- No entry may be submitted more than once.
- Submissions are due by March 31, 2024
Competition Categories:
- Business & Economics-Analytical Writing
- Business & Economics-Short Essay
- Creative Writing-Fiction
- Creative Writing-Non-Fiction
- Creative Writing-Poetry
- English-Composition-Students in First-Year Writing
- English-Critical Essay Written by a First-Year Student not in the First-Year Program
- English-Composition by Sophomores
- English-Composition by Juniors
- English-Composition by Seniors
- History, Political Science, International Relations
- MLL-Critical Essay Arabic/Chinese/French/German/Japanese/Russian/Spanish
- Music-Composition
- Philosophy
- Religion Studies
- Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology
Archive of past years' programs, including lists of winners:
- Winners for 2023 Contest
- Winners for 2022 Contest
- The Williams Prize competition was not held in 2021
- Winners for 2020 Contest
- Winners for 2019 Contest
- Winners for 2018 Contest
- Winners for 2017 Contest
- Winners for 2016 Contest
- Winners for 2015 Contest
Kachel Prize
The Kachel Prize was established by Robin and Allan B. Kachel '71 to celebrate student writing. Six awards are given each year, four by the Department of Journalism and two (those here) by the Department of English.
- The Kachel Prize was not held in 2023
- 2022 Fiction: RaShawn Allen, “Baby you just got Blown by the Whistle.” BANG! BANG! BANG!
- 2022 Fiction:: Kaitlin Mauriello, “Liquor on Stone”
- 2022 Non Fiction: Lena Weisman, “Beyond Fancy, Beyond Taste: Gender, Art, and Culture in America’s Gilded Age
- 2021 Fiction: Destiny Bonilla, “The Red Maple in the Center of the Park”
- 2021 Fiction: Alex Gonzalez, “Estrella’s Well”
- 2020 Fiction: Ally Connors, “I Am a Bad Poet”
- 2020 Fiction: Susan Poore, “The Rainbow Effect, novel”
- 2020 Non Fiction: Jonathan Levi, “A Geopolitical Catastrophe or Just Another Pipeline: What Nord Stream 2 Means for Europe”
- 2019 creative non-fiction writing prize: Laura DeFelice, "When Norms are Thicker Than Water: The Harm of Normalizing and Priotizing Bioloigical Relationships"
- 2019 creative writing prize: Paige Pagan, "Delilah", "Long Way to Riker", "The Bronx Lexicon", "Twist of Fate"
- 2019 creative writing prize: Sarah Stankus, "Soar" Chapter 2
- 2018 creative writing prize: Max Rosenbaum, "Nice Jewish Girl"
- 2018 creative writing prize: Claire Herndon, "In the Center of Town" (poem)
- 2017 creative writing prize: Thomas Verdi, "Excerpt from White"
- 2017 creative writing prize: Phoebe de Guzman, "The Yeti"
- 2017 non-fiction writing prize: Katerina Traut, "Giving 'Substance to Freedom and Democracy': Black woman Intellectual Vicki Garvin"
- 2016 creative writing prize: Bridget Brown, "A Condensed, Comprehensive Look at My Life with Jason"
- 2016 non-fiction writing prize: Lailei Forouraghi, "John Covel: Descartes in the High Church?"
- 2015 creative writing prize: Trey Davis, "Chimney Swift"
- 2015 non-fiction writing prize: Evan Orf, "Sentimental Associations of a Sunroom"
- 2014 creative writing prize: Kylie Gray, "Old Friends"
- 2014 non-fiction writing prize: Kylie Gray, "The Anticolonial Fantasy in The Pioneers"
- 2013 creative writing prize: Kevin Wenger, "Cool Factor"
- 2013 non-fiction writing prize: Jeff Gilbert, "Smiley's A Thousand Acres and the Problem of Fear-Based Environmentalism"
- 2012 creative writing prize: Carly Potock, "Umoja? Or Our First College Party"
- 2012 non-fiction writing prize: Jacob Kennan, "Democracy in Japan: From Meiji to MacArthur"