Georges Beram 2018 Meg Sircom Scholarship Winner 

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Vanier College is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Meg Sircom Memorial Scholarship for creative writing.

Meg Sircom, who was a Vanier English teacher from 2001-2011, was a fiction writer, and valued both academic and creative writing. After her death from breast cancer in 2011, the Vanier English Department set up a scholarship in her honour and the scholarship has been awarded every year since, in January.

This year’s winner of the $500 scholarship is Georges Beram, from Social Science and Commerce. The selection committee indicated it was impressed with Georges portfolio. All jurors emphasized they would encourage him to keep focusing on his careful observations of the real world, and on mining his own experience for stories about human experience.

The selection committee also awarded an Honourable Mention to Cristina Athina Mignacca from Social Science. The committee commented on her strong command of the conventions of language and her understanding and handling of the difficult genre of memoir/journal.

Open to all students, the Meg Sircom Memorial Scholarship is a $500 scholarship for achievement in English and Creative Writing. The recipient must have earned grades of 80%+ in two English courses, and must have produced a portfolio of creative writing judged to be outstanding by an adjudicating committee of English teachers.

Past recipients of the scholarship have indicated that winning the award helped them realize for the first time they had an unusual talent for writing.

Congratulations to Georges Beram and Crisitna Athina Mignacca.