The Department of English is pleased to announce the 2023 Brittany “Ally” Harbuck Award Ceremony. 

The $750 scholarship was created in memory of Brittany Ally Harbuck, a creative writing major who died in a traffic accident in April 2005 during her freshman year at Georgia Southern. Her parents raised more than $15,000 to endow the scholarship, which has been awarded since 2009. The winner will have these funds applied toward their tuition or book expenses. Each year, a published author serves as an outside judge to select the very best work submitted by a student. 

This year’s winner is Amy Phelps, and the finalists are Zachary Mayo, Sofia Navarro, and Kennedi Williams. The judge was award-winning poet--and former Professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics--Eric Nelson. The award ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, September 28, in the Ogeechee Theatre on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah. Light refreshments will be served, and Nelson’s books will be available for purchase.