Applause, the literary magazine at the AV抖阴, placed
first in the Southern Literary Festival鈥檚 journal competition, an event where a AV抖阴
student took a second place award.
Tim VanDyke of Alma, who wrote the poem 鈥淩iff on Brathwaite鈥檚 鈥楤read,鈥欌�� will receive his award check and certificate and will read his poem at the Southern Literary Festival slated for March 27-29 in Oxford, Miss. Rhiannon Corley of Fort Smith, editor of Applause magazine, will attend the festival to receive the magazine鈥檚 first-place award.
Applause is also the name of a creative arts organization at AV抖阴 which sponsors a creative writing contest each fall. Finalists in that competition are selected by the Applause magazine staff through an anonymous evaluation of submitted works. The work by finalists was then submitted by faculty sponsor Dr. Carol Westcamp of Muldrow for review by a group of faculty judges. Top winners of the contest were sent to the regional festival competition, where VanDyke won his second place award and the magazine received a first place ranking.
In addition to VanDyke, all winners of the AV抖阴 contest will be published in the 2014 magazine. First place winners in each category also receive a $50 check.
The winners in the AV抖阴 magazine on-campus competition included:
Formal Essay: First place -- Lindsay Miranda of Cedarville, 鈥淎lexander Pope, a Political Poet.鈥� Second place -- Staci Miller of Van Buren, 鈥淛ay Gatsby and the Nostalgia That Kills.鈥�
Short Story: First place -- Jessica B. Weisenfels of Alma, 鈥淭he Prize Fighter.鈥� Second place -- Jessica B. Weisenfels of Alma, 鈥淭he Usage of the Outside Couch.鈥�
Poetry: First place -- Staci Miller of Van Buren, 鈥淟izzie Dear.鈥� Second place -- Tim VanDyke of Alma, 鈥淩iff on Brathwaite鈥檚 鈥楤read.鈥欌��
The Southern Literary Festival is an organization of southern colleges and schools founded in 1937 to promote southern literature. Each year a different school hosts the Festival, which includes an undergraduate writing conference that entails writing workshops in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and playwriting; a writing competition in those areas as well as in formal essay and literary-arts magazine; and a venue in which the participating students, faculty, and general public attend readings by well-known writers.