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2025-2026 M. Garren Tinney Writing Award Recipients Announced

Concluding a year full of outstanding undergraduate student writing supported by the M. Garren Tinney Memorial Fund, The Writing Program in the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025-2026 M. Garren Tinney Writing Awards.

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2025-2026 M. Garren Tinney Travel Award

The UCSB Writing Program in the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is proud to announce the 2025-2026 M. Garren Tinney Travel Award Recipients: David Andrew ‘28 (Environmental Studies & History), Noble Culpepper-Hawkins and ‘25 (Communications), and Karen Su ‘25 (Economics and Communications & Journalism).

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2025-2026 M. Garren Tinney Writing Fellows

The UCSB Writing Program in the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is proud to announce the 2025-2026 M. Garren Tinney Writing Fellows: Brianna Griffin ‘26 (L&S Black Studies), Ari Linder ‘26 (CCS Writing & Literature), and Sophia Quinto ‘26 (CCS Writing & Literature).

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2025 CCCC Richard Braddock Award

We are thrilled to share that Professor Michelle Petty has won the 2025 CCCC Richard Braddock Awards, the top article award in our discipline, for, “Black Linguistic Justice from Theory to Practice,” published in the June 2024 issue of College Composition and Communication