Warm congratulations to the following awards-winners:

Creative Writing Program Awards

Abernethy Scholarship for 2005-2006: RYAN OISHI

The Academy of American Poets Prize: TIARE PICARD for "Seven"; honorable mention: NOEL NORCROSS for "Coda".

The Patsy Sumie Saiki Award for Fiction: CHRISTOPHER KELSEY for "Asking Auntie"; second place ALEXEI MELNICK for "Welcome to the Booby Hatch"; third place HOLLIE MARUMOTO for "The Bus Ride".

The Stephen C. Stryker & William H. Stryker Prize for Fiction: CHE S. NG for "During the Summer We Would Sweat".

Red Mandarin Scholarship: TIARE PICARD.

Ernest Hemingway Undergraduate Award for Fiction: Angela Nishimoto.

Ernest Hemingway Undergraduate Award for Poetry: Katherine Barrett.

Myrle Clark Awards: KAI GASPAR, GAVIN McCALL, TIARE PICARD, RACHEL CHOY, SPENCER KEALAMAKIA, DANIEL KENYON, CHELSEY KOJIMA, KYLE MAHONEY, MATT PANGELINAN, CHARITY YORO.

Other Awards

The Scholarship for the Dream Travel Grant to present a paper at the College Composition and Communication Conference in New York City: RYAN OMIZO.

Graduate Division Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant: MELANIE MAILE GRESHAM.

Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Research Awards: KIMO ARMITAGE, MORGAN COOPER.

John Young Scholarships in the Arts: THEO GARNEAU, ANN INOSHITA, THUY DA LAM, NOEL NORCROSS, LISA OTTIGER, AIKO YAMASHIRO.

Hawai`i Publishers Association Pai Award for Best Editorial Column: MICHAEL TSAI.