The Conference on Christianity & Literature

2005 Student Writing Contest Winners

Fiction

First place:

"Rosary"
Sam Martin
Redeemer College

Second place:

"Nativity"
Christina Turner
Houghton College

Third place:

"Vida"
Christina Turner
Houghton College

Poetry

First place:

"Spark"
Jennifer Augst
Gordon College

Second place:

"Conviction"
Rachel Ingraham
Houghton College

Third place:

"The Color of Alfonse Borysewicz"
Kayli King
Northwestern College

Non-Fiction Prose

First prize:

"Arboreal Rodents and Children: An Assortment of Reflection"
Brandi McClain
Abilene Christian University

Second prize:

"Flying Foxes"
Elizabeth Talley
Abilene Christian University

Third prize:

"Leaving Home"
Sarah Shaffer
Taylor University 

Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)

 

In the Latest Issue of Christianity & Literature:


Night Reading

Franz Wright

Lights coming on
   in windows;
windows lit all
   night long
suddenly dark --

He seems to sleep,
   head nested
in crossed arms
on the desk,
   as he listens

to the first raindrops
striking the window,
the faint roar
   of aircraft just

vanishing with
   moonlit trail
past the horizon,
the underlined phrase.

      Summer 2009