This award was created by visual artist and award-winning poet, Janice Colbert, a graduate of the Creative Writing Certificate Program. The Janice Colbert Poetry Award is open to students who have taken at least one creative writing course in the previous year. One prize of $1,000 and two prizes of $500 annually.
Recent award recipients
2022
Bradley Alvarez (winner)
Janet Lamb (runner-up)
Jessica Lapp (runner-up)
2021
Ashley-Elizabeth Best (winner)
Jane Macdonald (runner-up)
Nayana Suchak (runner-up)
2020
Jane Macdonald (winner)
Diane Massam (runner-up)
Anna Lee-Popham (runner-up)
2019
Erin Conway-Smith (Winner)
Jane Macdonald (Runner Up)
Melany Franklin (Runner Up)
2018
Emily Sanford (2018 Winner)
Kerri Huffman (2018 Runner Up)
Therese Estacion (2018 Runner Up)
2017
Chloe Catan (Winner)
2016
Daniel Lomas (Winner)
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