{"id":9191,"date":"2015-04-20T15:35:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T19:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9191"},"modified":"2015-04-20T15:35:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T19:35:39","slug":"hear-winning-student-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/hear-winning-student-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear UT’s winning student writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writers in the Library, a long-running reading series sponsored by the Libraries and the Creative Writing Program, showcases the work of novelists, poets, and other literary craftsmen. Each semester, Writers in the Library brings award-winning writers to the John C. Hodges Library to read from their works. The final event of each academic year is a reading by student winners of UT’s John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Awards. <\/p>\n

The 2015 winners of the Writing Awards gave a reading in Hodges Library on April 13. The winning authors and works are: <\/p>\n

FICTION
\nFirst Prize: Daniel Wallace for “The Hills Will Melt Like Wax”
\nSecond Prize: Richard Hermes for “Until the New Season is Born”
\nThird Prize: Helen Stead for “Muleta”<\/p>\n

POETRY
\nFirst Prize: Helen Stead for “Bangers and Mash”
\nSecond Prize: Ben McClendon for “Hoping to Find Something Between”
\nThird Prize: Kierstyn Lamour for “What is There to Learn About a Man Leaving His Wife?”<\/p>\n

View the April 13 readings by these accomplished, up-and-coming writers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The awards are made possible by the English Department through 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. This year’s judges were B.J. Leggett for fiction and Flossie McNabb for poetry.<\/p>\n

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