To read the winning entries, click on their titles below.
Emily Lynn is awarded the Link $250 First Prize for Poetry for her body of work: "I Don't Expect Anything from You," "The Women have Hats," and "There are Many People Over There."
Devin M. Bowers wins a Link $100 Second Prize for Poetry for her body of work: "Literature's Offspring," "Misplaced Morality," "Grey Light," and "Despair."
Colleen Foster receives a Link Honorable Mention for Poetry and a book for her body of work: "To be Continued," "Mantra," and "Withheld."
A past winner, Foster is also doubly recognized for her creative writing this year. In addition to a poetry Honorable Mention, she is also awarded the Souders Fiction $250 Prize for Fiction for her short story "The Rule of Thirds."
The winners will be publicly recognized during the Shenandoah University Honor's Day Ceremony on Friday, May 11, from 1:00-3:00 in Stimpson Auditorium. The ceremony is open to the University community. Their work will also be published in the spring 2012 issue of Avalon, the Shenandoah University student literary and arts magazine. Hard copies of the winning entries are also available on the Writing Contest bulletin board next to Gregory 111.
Rules and next year's call for entries are in this blog's right column.
The Link/Souders Student Creative Writing Contests are sponsored by the Shenandoah University Department of English. The Link Second Prize for Poetry is sponsored by the Willa Cather Institute.
