The Mountain Heritage Literary Festival
June 10-12, 2011

 

 

Writing Contest

The winners of the 2010 Mountain Heritage Literary Festival Writing competitions were:

Jesse Stuart Prize for Young Adult Fiction - Judged by Paul Brett Johnson
3rd - Leigh Mikovch of Bowling Green, Ky. - Runaway Survival Kit
2nd - Linda Hudson Hoagland of North Tazewell, Va. - How's That For Real
1st - Irene Latham of Birmingham, Ala. - Inbetweenland

Emma Bell Miles Prize for Essay - Judged by Erik Reece
3rd - *Amy Clark of Big Stone Gap, Va. - Letters from Home: Literacy in Central Appalachia
2nd - *Amy Clark - Sisters
1st - Jeremy B. Jones of North Charleston, S.C. - Silent Song

George Scarbrough Award for Poetry - Judged by Kathryn Stripling Byer
3rd - Jonathan Wesley Lounsberry of Belcher, Ky. - Possum Grapes
2nd - Amy Elliott of Oliver Springs, Tenn., - Salvation
1st - Amy Tudor of Louisville, Ky. - Gold Star

James Still Prize for Short Story - Judged by Amy Greene
HM - Ben E. Campbell of Pearisburg, Va. - Fool's Gold
3rd - Larry Thacker of Middlesboro, Ky. - Dead of Winter
2nd - Natalie Sypolt of Kingwood, W.Va. - Love, Off to the Side
1st - Tiffany Williams of McRoberts, Ky. - The Space Between

*first time in the history of our festival, one individual has placed more than once in the same contest

 

 

 

Lincoln Memorial University
Cumberland Gap Parkway
P.O. Box 2005
Harrogate, TN 37752

Phone:
423.869.6432 or 800.325.0900, ext. 6432