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- ↑ Boersen, Tyler (April 16, 2002). "30 winners named at Hopwood Awards". Michigan Daily .
- ↑ Delbanco, Nicholas; Beauchamp, Andrea; Barrett, Michael, eds. (2006). The Hopwood Awards: Seventy-Five Years of Prized Writing (Hardcover). University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.175222. ISBN 978-0-472-09926-9.
- ↑ Napoleon, Davi: The Rewards of the Hopwood Michigan Alumnus, Spring 1999. A past winner and judge explores the values and dangers of this literary competition.