The Writing Studio celebrates undergraduate writing and all that undergraduate writers are capable of, and we congratulate the winners of the 2026 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers!
Winners of the 2026 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers
1st Place
- Moohyun Lee 鈥淚bn Khaldun and Jouvenel: 鈥楢sabiyya, Sponsorship, and the Making of Modern Political Islamism鈥�
2nd Place
- Parthav Gavini 鈥淚 Asked AI to Help Me Think. Then I Forgot How.鈥�
3rd Place
- Moohyun Lee 鈥淪et in Stone: Architectural Semiotics of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre鈥�
Honorable Mention
- Frantz-Lynne Guillet 鈥淭he Languages of Survival鈥� (poem)
Thanks to all who entered their writing!
We want to offer a note of thanks, too, to all of the authors who entered their compositions for consideration in this year’s Morgan Award competition.
The 2026 Morgan Award competition received over 90听蝉耻产尘颈蝉蝉颈辞苍蝉–essays, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more–all by 91黑料网’s first-year undergraduates. That’s a lot of writing!
After giving careful consideration to this body of work, the committee felt inspired by and grateful for the chance to see the fruits of our first-year students’ academic and creative labors as writers and thinkers. From this auspicious beginning, we sincerely hope that each and every one of you will continue to dare to grow as writers throughout the rest of your time at 91黑料网.
To learn more, visit our page on the annual Morgan Award competition. You might also scroll through our Gallery of Morgan Award Winners that now stretches from 2014, when organizing this longstanding annual competition first came under the Writing Studio’s purview, to this year.