English Department Contests – Prize Winners 2025-2026

Warm congratulations to the English Department’s prize winners for the academic year of 2025-2026:

Noga Nir Creative Writing Contest

Category: Poetry – BA students

• 1^st Place – Sol Perkis, for the poem: “Brainrot!”
• 2^nd Place – Lian Abo Full, for the poem: “Home”

Category: Prose – BA students

• 1^st Place – Dana Rozman, for the short story: “Shoot”
• 2^nd Place – Olga Chepurov, for the short story: “Unmother”

Category: Poetry – MA students

• 1^st Place – Yasmine Gelbman, for the poem: “To All the Angry Fathers and Daughters" 
• 2^nd Place – Salam Saleh, for the poem: “At the Threshold of Pleasure: a Story in Three Ghazals”

Best Essay Contest

Category: Best BA Seminar Paper

• Fatimah Said – for her paper: “Prayer or Blasphemy”? Witchcraft, Catholicism, and Protestant Identity on the Jacobean Stage”, in the seminar: “Stage Magicians: Early Modern Witches and Wizards” with Dr. Reut Barzilai.

Category: Best MA Seminar Paper

• Netta Kaplan – for her paper: “Exclusionary Sanctuary: Violence and Boundaries in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Paradise”, in the seminar: “Toni Morrison” with Dr. Keren Omry.