Student Writing Contest

Winners of the 2012 Student Writing Contest

Creative Non-fiction
1st place: Lauren Moore, Cedarville University, "The Pilgrim Pathway"
2nd place: Lauren Sawyer, Indiana Wesleyan University, "The Difference between Dead and Alive"
3rd place: Kathryn Mogk, Pepperdine University, "Seeing the Middle Ages"

Fiction
1st place: Preston Yancey, Baylor University, "The Heathen"
2nd place: Adam Kneeland, Houghton College, "This Place is Not Tegesta Anymore"
3rd place: Brenna Case, Gordon College, "Shrimp Farm Baptism"

Academic Essay
1st place: Kathryn Mogk, Pepperdine University, “Swallowing the Golden Pill: The Integral Christianity of Narnia”
2nd place: Ashley Couch, Houghton College, “Love and Marriage with Philip Larkin and Eavan Boland”
3rd place: Sarah Carter, Wheaton College, “Wordsworth’s ‘Spirit of the Universe’ and the Quest for Tranquility”

Poetry
1st place: Sarah Grigg, University of Virginia, “The Journal of God at Play”
2nd place: Daisy Hernandez, Hope College, “Día del Turkey, 2011”
3rd place: Lauren Sawyer, Indiana Wesleyan University, “Eve’s Big Exit”
Honorable Mention: Nick Rassi, Indiana Wesleyan University, “My Louisiana Sky”