{"id":600,"date":"2019-05-01T21:46:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T21:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=600"},"modified":"2019-05-01T21:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T21:46:41","slug":"jones-college-students-earn-honors-at-the-mississippi-community-college-creative-writing-association-competition-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-students-earn-honors-at-the-mississippi-community-college-creative-writing-association-competition-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Â鶹ֱ²¥ students earn honors at the Mississippi Community College Creative Writing Association competition & workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELLISVILLE-Three Â鶹ֱ²¥ students earned honors at the Mississippi Community College Creative Writing Association\u2019s annual competition and workshop hosted at Holmes Community College. The competition included seven categories: Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Creative Nonfiction, Literary Essay, Best Professionally-Printed Journal and Best In-House Journal. Community college students participating in the competition could earn scholarships and honors, like Rickey Cole of Ovett, Kara Lowe of Mize and River Cade Howell of Soso. Accounting major, Howell was selected as the first place winner in the Literary Essay category for his essay, \u201cA Mother\u2019s Manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Â鶹ֱ²¥ English instructor Tim Morris explained, \u201cRiver\u2019s work was so impressive to the English Chairman at Belhaven University that he offered River a $2,000 scholarship. He noted Howell\u2019s exceptional use of grammar and punctuation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Also submitting a literary piece that judges noticed was Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s Ricky Cole with his creative nonfiction entry, \u201cCome on Jack, Let\u2019s Go,\u201d which took third place honors. In the Poetry division, Kara Lowe\u2019s entry, \u201cOn What I Dream About,\u201d earned an honorable mention award.<\/p>\n

Judges of the competition included Dr. Don Hubele, English professor and chair of the Belhaven University English Department; Paula Lambert, literary and visionary artist and author; Phyllis W. Seawright, assistant professor of communication\/theater at Mississippi College; Michael Farris Smith, award-winning author, and Marshall Ramsey, author, syndicated-cartoonist, radio\/television host and editor-at-large for Mississippi Today.<\/p>\n

For more information about this year’s MCCCWA contest and awards, contact MCCCWA President Dr. Andrew Kelly at akelly@holmescc.edu.<\/p>\n

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ELLISVILLE-Three Â鶹ֱ²¥ students earned honors at the Mississippi Community College Creative Writing Association\u2019s annual competition and workshop hosted at Holmes Community College. The competition included seven categories: Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Creative Nonfiction, Literary Essay, Best Professionally-Printed Journal and Best In-House Journal. Community college students participating in the competition could earn scholarships and honors, like … <\/p>\n

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