The ALSCW’s Meringoff Essay Award Committee is pleased to announce that Gabriella Garr of New York City has won the 2011 ALSCW Meringoff Essay Award for the best analytical essay by a secondary school student. The Committee has found Gabriella Garr’s essay, “Hamlet: Genuinely Theatrical,” to be outstanding. The essay will appear in Literary Matters 4.3. The award carries with it a cash prize of $2,500.