The Crowder Quill, a literary and art magazine of Crowder College, will host the annual awards ceremony with a campus- and community-wide poetry reading and luncheon. The 35th anniversary event will take place Thurs., May 7 from 11:30-1 in the Elsie Plaster Community Center on the campus of Crowder College in Neosho, Mo.
Quill staff alumni will be recognized, and a dedication will be made to Jon Finley, who has printed the Quill since 1987 and will retire this summer.
“This year’s ceremony marks a milestone for the publication, showing the longevity of a publication with a mission to encourage and showcase our area’s authors and artists,” said Latonia Bailey, Crowder Quill adviser since 1994.
The public is welcome. RSVPs for poetry are requested; others are welcome to the microphone as time permits. Poetry that is NOT published in this edition of the Quill is encouraged, as the magazine will be made available following the ceremony.
All published entrants will receive a certificate for gold, silver, bronze or honorable mention. Award placements will not be announced until the ceremony. Afterwards, a light lunch will be served.
The Crowder Quill recently received a national award of “Best Community College Literary Magazine” from the American Scholastic Press Association for the 2014 edition, the second consecutive year for the prestigious award.
Begun in 1980, the Quill is published each spring; the contest deadline is Feb. 1 each year, and divisions are high school, Crowder students, and community adults. The categories are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, 2D art, 3D art, digital art, color photography, and black and white photography.
Entries are received online via the website www.CrowderQuill.com.
Members of the 2015 staff are Alexis Arenas-Andrade, Springdale, Ark.; Kerrigan Arnold, Reeds Springs; Alyssa Beck, Buffalo; Jacob Dalton, Anderson; Logan Hamby, Neosho; MaryBeth Hertzog, Pleasant Hill; Kate Kelley, Neosho; Ashley McGee, Jane; Sofia Sanchez Salcedo, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Owen Swearingen, Wheaton; Drew Young, Pierce City; and adviser Latonia Bailey, Goodman.
Winners of the contest, sorted by hometown, are as follows:
Anderson
Kalee Sweeten
Aurora
Kim McCully-Mobley
Ashley Sperandio
Mary Tacker
Bella Vista
Leandra Tuggle
Carl Junction
Bobby Beyer
Tarin Bruce
Chin-Li Chew
Mark Cole
Jessica Dean
Hannah Hoffman
Kenna Huffmaster
Olivia Klute
Erin Psajdl
Dayan Reynolds
Jessica Sellers
Bernadine Tyler
Carterville
Brenda Martinez
Carthage
Andrew Chartier
Cassville
Katelyn Brisco
Diamond
Shelby DeWeese
Dylan Flint
Dustin Miller
Liz Spencer
Exeter
Tyler Dallis
Fairview
Stormi Allen
Golden City
Zoe Rosenthal
Goodman
Sandy Jordan
Mary Smith
Granby
Eli Cole
Jacqueline Cole
Aubrey McDermott
Joplin
Chase Boyd
Amanda Calderon
Emily Cole
Tiffany Durbin
Joan Farmer
Mirana Heath
Ann Jernigan
Tiffany Kesinger
Joanne Kim
Randal “Chase” Kraft
Julie Krueger
Sophia Miller
Weston Moskalski
Breely Pilgrim
John Wheeler
Kathleen Wiley
Brandon Robertson
Billie Skelley
Lockwood
Ben Schnelle
Monett
Patrick Gorman
Amy Sampson
Jonathan St.Hilaire
Neosho
Kate Besser
Becky Biehl-Wylie
Debra Brown
Angus Cumming
Alec Fehring
David Fehring
Joshua Foster
Madeline Giebler
Al Gritten
Skylar Howe
Alexis Hutchinson-Caddy
Aaron Kocurek
Tori Murray
Casey Stueber
LaRaeda Sullivan
Jesse Walls
Shelly Weems
Elizabeth Wilks
Leslie Wright
Nevada
Kyle O’Bryan
Noel
Sarah Bodine
Henri Whitehead
Sandra Whiting
Oronogo
Samantha Berry
Johnathan Leach
Rocky Comfort
Katelyn Harriman
Seneca
Calvin Ackerson
Christian Smith
Webb City
Connor Ames
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