The Conference on Christianity & Literature

2004 Student Writing Contest

Winners for the 2004 Student Writing Contest.

Fiction

First Place

"chain of being"
Leigh Ann Ruggiero
Wheaton College

Second Place

"Insulation"
Amanda Helms
Abilene Christian University

Third Place 

"Cliff Jumping"
Sam Martin
Redeemer University College

Poetry

First Place

"The Christ Child in a Trailer Park"
Adam Petty
Calvin College

Second Place

"Justice"
Garrett Pruessner
Abilene Christian University

Third Place

"Deep Down Orpheus Blues"
Walter Miedema
Redeemer University College

Non-Fiction

First Place

"Toppling the Idols: Derrida and Denise Levertov's Poetry of Presence"
Nathan Systma
Calvin College

Second Place

"Girl"
Alicia Kraft
Wheaton College

Third Place

"Hospital Green"
Joyce Albas
Redeemer University College

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