'Scribendi' Creative Writing Winners Announced
The winners of the 2011 Utah State University Creative Writing Contest “Scribendi” have been selected. This year, the contest received 158 entries from USU students in 25 areas of study across four colleges.
“With so many excellent entries, the judges’ task was not easy,” said Charles Waugh, associate professor and director of the USU creative writing contest. “We want to thank and congratulate not only the students whose work emerged at the top, but all the entrants for raising the level of competition.”
The contest has four undergraduate and graduate categories: fiction, poetry, nonfiction essay and art.
The 2011 winners are:
Undergraduate Fiction
1st — Ryan Keepers, “This is a Way to Grieve”
2nd — Marinda Fowler, “Tinkering”
3rd — Tessa Ryser, “As Happy as a Clam”
Graduate Fiction
1st — Dallin Bundy, “June Eleventh on Vinegar Hill”
2nd — Kate Sirls, “Promises”
3rd — Kaerlek Janislampi, “Great Shangrala”
Undergraduate Nonfiction
1st — Kevin Larsen, “Macabre Amassed”
2nd — Lani Rush, “Spaz”
3rd — Heather Griffiths, “Placentas Like Plastic Bags”
Graduate Nonfiction
1st — John Gilmore, “This Ends at Zero”
2nd — Bonnie Moore, “Making Space”
3rd — Brett Sigurdson, “To Solitude Again or Die”
Undergraduate Poetry
1st — Josh McDermott, “Terrene and the Seasons,” “The Samba Dancer,” “The Noble Eightfold Path to Enlightenment”
2nd — Tim Clark, “American,” “Longing for Innocence,” “Anathema”
3rd — Tina Sitton, “White Peonies,” “Red Paper Hearts,” “The Chinese Vase”
Graduate Poetry
1st — Brian Brown, “Wrestling,” “Sunrise Flight,” “Headlong”
2nd — Brett Sigurdson, “America Now,” “Nighttime Falling at Cache Creek,” “Burning”
3rd — Kathryn Sirls, “Little Chicks,” “Song for a Sapphire Ring,” “Void”
Undergraduate Art
1st — Tessa Ryser, “All Her Colors”
2nd — Vincent Cobb, “Winter/Spring”
3rd — Michelle Larsen, “We Sat Among the Leaves”
Honorable Mention — Tessa Ryser, “Ugh,” “Dead Girl”
Honorable Mention — Michelle Larsen, “Caballers,” “Stack,” “I carefully traced the windings of the land,” “Burrow”
Honorable Mention — Tina Sitton, “Pumphouse Wash”
Honorable Mention — Vincent Cobb, “Industrial Park,” “Between Canyons”
Graduate Art
1st — Bernadene Ryan, “Cape Breton Mists”
2nd — Bernadene Ryan, “Quebec City Alleyway”
3rd — Bernadene Ryan, “Cool Bathing”
The online version of the contest magazine “Scribendi” will be available in April on campus at the USU English Department’s website and at www.scribendi.usu.edu or off-campus at the same addresses through the VPN. Helicon West will also feature contest winners reading from their work on April 14.
Related links:
USU College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Contact: Charles Waugh, (435) 797-3481, charles.waugh@usu.edu
Writer: Rob Goates, rsgoates@gmail.com
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