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Columbus State University Announces Carson McCullers Literary Award Winners
March 12, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ga - The English Department at Columbus State University is pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Carson McCullers Literary Awards for Georgia high school and CSU students:
The Brick Road Greear Prize for Poetry
High School:
First Place: "Rotten Fruit," Hayley Maine, Early College Academy of Columbus, Columbus, GA
Honorable Mention: "The Run of Life," Bodie Fox, Armuchee High School, Rome, GA
CSU:
First Place: "In the Savage City," Jeremy Andrews
Honorable Mention: "Proximity," Alyssa Hudson
The Orlene Jones Poulsen Award for Fiction
High School:
First Place: "Thank You For the Pictures," Elim Lee, Brookstone School, Columbus, GA
Honorable Mention: "6:30 to 7:41," Taryn Castro, Chamblee Charter High School, Atlanta, GA
CSU:
First Place: "Tolerable Oranges," Alyssa Hudson
Honorable Mention: "Midnight Monster," Shannon Smith
The Paul Hackett Award for Creative Nonfiction
High School:
First Place: "Mother, Did You Know?" Elim Lee, Brookstone School, Columbus, GA
Honorable Mention: "Ode to Joy," Amy Pan, Parkview High School, Lilburn, GA
CSU:
First Place: "Motherland," Alyssa Hudson
Honorable Mention: "Escape These Southern Bones," Jeremy Andrews
The Naartjie Multimedia Award for Expository Writing
High School:
Honorable Mention: “Grace's Path to Enlightenment in The Others,” Sina Niusulu, Hardaway High School, Columbus, GA
CSU:
First Place: "Mark Doty and Transforming Experience into Art," Christopher Delano
Honorable Mention: “Run, Lola, Run and the Reality of Difference,” Rachel Jordan
Notable: “Mina Loy's "Parturition" and "Feminist Manifesto": A Reflection of Conflicted Identities," Alyssa Hudson
Notable: "The Negro Speaks: An Examination of Black Identity in America Through the Lens of Masculinity in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman," Brandon Hodges
Notable: "Damnation and Salvation Through Love in Christina Rosetti's Poetry," Emery Godwin
Prizes for first place include $150 and publication in Arden, CSU’s award-winning literary journal. Honorable mention winners will receive $100. Winners will receive their awards and cash prizes at a banquet at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 13 at The Rankin Gardens & Atrium. A performance featuring poet Noah Blaustein will follow at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theater at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts.
These awards are named for Carson McCullers who was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia on February 19, 1917. Most famous for her novels "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," "Reflections in a Golden Eye," "The Member of the Wedding," "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," and "Clock Without Hands," McCullers was also a playwright and a short story writer. Her small but significant body of work includes five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, over two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children’s verses, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography. She died in 1967 at the age of 50.
For further information about the awards, contact Dr. Carmen Skaggs, chair for the Department of English at 706-569-2583 or skaggs_carmen@columbusstate.edu.
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