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Literary & Visual Art Competition, Playwriting Winners Announced

CONWAY, Ark. (May 6, 2014) – The Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language recently announced the 2013-2014 Aonian Literary & Visual Art Competition and 2013-2014 Student Playwriting Contest winners.

The student award recipients include: 

Prose

  • First Place – “Valerie” by Sami Kennedy ’15 
  • Second Place – “CSTF” by Laura Klasek ’14  
  • Third Place – “The Bird in the Barrel” by Rachel Thomas ’14

Literary Hybrids

  • First Place – “Disassociation” by Lindsay Lloyd ’14  
  • Second Place – “Pursuit” by Lindsay Lloyd ’14  
  • Third Place – “Swollen” by Carl Napolitano ’16  

Poetry

  • First Place – “First Rites” by Camille Guillot ’14  
  • Second Place – “The Chitin Chorus” by Carl Napolitano ’16
  • Third Place – “What Makes a Morning” by Alli Dillard ’15  

Visual Art

  • First Place – “Crow” by Anna Pierattini ’14,
  • Second Place – “Bekah” by Stacey Svendsen ’14,
  • Third Place – “Inner Illuminations” by Allison Tschiemer ’14  

Student Playwriting Contest Winners

  • First Place – “Tracy, Full of Grace” by Abby Christophel ’15  
  • Second Place – “Clue” by Laura Klasek ’14  

Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report.  Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu