{"id":10943,"date":"2017-03-31T15:47:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10943"},"modified":"2017-03-31T15:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T19:47:45","slug":"creative-writing-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/creative-writing-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Winners of Creative Writing Prizes to Read April 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student winners of UT’s graduate-level writing awards will read from their winning works on Monday, April 17. The event is part of the Writers in the Library reading series. <\/p>\n

\"WILstudentWinners_web2\"<\/a>Readings begin at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of the John C. Hodges Library. The public is invited to join the university community for readings by these accomplished, up-and-coming writers.<\/p>\n

Each spring, the Creative Writing Program awards prizes for the John C. Hodges Award for Fiction Writing and the John C. Hodges Award for Poetry Writing. Awards are made possible by the John C. Hodges Better English Fund, endowed by the long-time UT English professor and author of the Harbrace College Handbook<\/em>, for whom the Hodges Library is named.<\/p>\n

2017 winners of the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Awards:<\/p>\n

FICTION:
\nFirst Prize: Mollie Swayne
\nSecond Prize: Lance Dyzak
\nThird Prize: Elizabeth Weld<\/p>\n

POETRY:
\nFirst Prize: Ben McClendon
\nSecond Prize: Elysia Mann
\nThird Prize: Jeremy Reed<\/p>\n

The judges for this year\u2019s contests were Ted Thompson for fiction and Keetje Kuipers for poetry.
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\nWriters in the Library is sponsored by the UT Libraries and the Creative Writing Program in association with the John C. Hodges Better English Fund. <\/p>\n

For more information, contact Erin Elizabeth Smith, Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence at the UT Libraries, at esmith83@utk.edu<\/a> or visit the Writers in the Library webpage at http:\/\/library.utk.edu\/writers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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