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Writing students dominate prestigious competition
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Governor's School students win two of three international writing awards
GREENVILLE, SC - Creative Writing students dominated a prestigious poetry competition recently when they claimed two of the competition's three international awards.
Anna Faison of Aiken won first place in The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers. Megan Gallagher of Beaufort was named a runner up. Faison and Gallagher are both juniors at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers recognizes outstanding young poets and is open to high school sophomores and juniors throughout the world. The final judge of the contest was David Baker, poetry editor of The Kenyon Review literary magazine.
As the contest winner, Faison will receive a full scholarship to a summer 2010 session of The Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Additionally, Faison's poem, "Han", and Gallagher's poem, "Clutch", will be published in The Kenyon Review.
Poetry instructor Mamie Morgan commented on each student's work.
"Anna's poems are carefully woven, wrenching and always surprising," Morgan said. "She is a pleasure to work with, precisely because she is as sophisticated as she is sincere, and she is as clear-sighted as she is empathetic."
"Megan Gallagher's work is focused, visceral and intense. She houses such artistic integrity and puts an impressive amount of energy into her work," Morgan said.
Faison is formerly a student of South Aiken High School. Gallagher previously attended Beaufort Academy. The other runner up, Emma Broder of Hamden, Connecticut is not a Governor's School student.
A Governor's School writer has won this competition before. In 2007 Rebecca Latour of Clemson won first place for her poem, "Twisted Like Dogwood," and Celeste Brewer of Greenville received Honorable Mention for her poem, "Gemini."
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