The 2023 Winners of the Sowell Essay Award have been selected. Winners are:
Creative Essay
First Place ($500): Hope Ramsey, "Fathoms Deep and Fathomless Deity: An Exploration of David James Duncan's God Laughs and Plays"
Second Place: ($250): Natalie Eastabrook, "Reading Gretel Ehrlich at Muleshoe"
Scholarly/Critical Essay
First Place ($500): Ashley Temple, “An Analysis of Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels”
Second Place ($250): Chloe Vainrib, “Rooted in Reverence: An Analysis of Barry Lopez’s ‘Tornarssuk’ from Arctic Dreams”
The award was funded by the Office of the Provost.