ELLISVILLE-Three 糖心直播 students earned honors at the Mississippi Community College Creative Writing Association鈥檚 annual competition and workshop hosted at Holmes Community College. The competition included seven categories: Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Creative Nonfiction, Literary Essay, Best Professionally-Printed Journal and Best In-House Journal. Community college students participating in the competition could earn scholarships and honors, like Rickey Cole of Ovett, Kara Lowe of Mize and River Cade Howell of Soso. Accounting major, Howell was selected as the first place winner in the Literary Essay category for his essay, 鈥淎 Mother鈥檚 Manipulation.鈥�
糖心直播 English instructor Tim Morris explained, 鈥淩iver鈥檚 work was so impressive to the English Chairman at Belhaven University that he offered River a $2,000 scholarship. He noted Howell鈥檚 exceptional use of grammar and punctuation.鈥�
Also submitting a literary piece that judges noticed was 糖心直播鈥檚 Ricky Cole with his creative nonfiction entry, 鈥淐ome on Jack, Let鈥檚 Go,鈥� which took third place honors. In the Poetry division, Kara Lowe鈥檚 entry, 鈥淥n What I Dream About,鈥� earned an honorable mention award.
Judges of the competition included Dr. Don Hubele, English professor and chair of the Belhaven University English Department; Paula Lambert, literary and visionary artist and author; Phyllis W. Seawright, assistant professor of communication/theater at Mississippi College; Michael Farris Smith, award-winning author, and Marshall Ramsey, author, syndicated-cartoonist, radio/television host and editor-at-large for Mississippi Today.
For more information about this year’s MCCCWA contest and awards, contact MCCCWA President Dr. Andrew Kelly at akelly@holmescc.edu.