Coe English Handbook
List of Prize WinnersCoe College Finalists and Winners of the Nick Adams Prize
of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest
"The story's structure is ingenious. The tight chapters, charmingly anecdotal at first, manage by the story's conclusion to seem novelistic. This is a classic case of the whole being more than the sum of its parts. The ten 'occasions' of the story, convey both a family history and the ethos of growing up Hispanic. The writer's deep affection for the characters and the culture is compellingly rendered." Stuart Dybek, Northwestern University
Iris Garcia, "The Language of Terrible Things"
Honorable Mention 2006
and for
"Ten Occasions on Which Idaline Cried"
Honorable Mention 2008
Liz Mathews, "The Way You Made them Suffer"
Finalist 2003
"Staying Snow" by G. Scott Campbell
First Place, 1988