NONFICTION
First place non-fiction: ‘The First Step’

Spain is a land of legends — giant legends. It is a place where stories, both religious and secular, crop up, gain ground, and soon […]

Second place non-fiction: ‘Iceman Cometh’

The first thing you see when you walk in the door to Joseph Waynick’s office is a freshly polished Emmy Award. It’s kind of shocking […]

Leaving Without Godot

He doesn’t volunteer, he doesn’t do sports, he doesn’t sing a cappella. He does do theater. But even in theater, there are things he just […]

Athena’s Sanctuary

Repelled by the Greek Orthodox Church’s conservative attitudes towards women and elaborate, seemingly empty rituals, she swore at thirteen she would never attend another service. […]

The Housing Man

  Growing up the grandchild of a building superintendent in the Bronx, Rafael Ramos has always been aware of the impact of housing on people’s […]

Main Street, Brazil 5,000 miles from Sao Paulo

Driving into Danbury, Conn., you can feel the magic. Somewhere between exits four and five on Interstate 84, dreary New England is transformed into the […]

Eli-mentary School

Students at Elihu Yale Elementary School, a public school in a tough Chicago neighborhood, lack the opportunities provided to students at Yale University. The name […]

Growing up Greek

With administrators alarmed by a rise in binge drinking among college students, brothers across the nation are feeling pressure to step out of the long […]

Drained

I was encrusted. Flat-backed on a padded examination table, I confined my hands to my pockets and stared at the ceiling, tracing the outlines of […]

The Liberation

My sister still goes to my old school. So even though the pandemonium of my last month in high school led me to declare in […]

The Hunt for the Uterine Truss

Earlier this month, with my senior essay deadline looming, my procrastination attempts reached a heroic new level of heroism. I set out on a mission, […]