Writers' Café

Second Annual Writers' Café/Prosody
Undergraduate Writing Contest

The Writers' Café is pleased to announce the following winners of the Second Annual Writers' Café /Prosody Undergraduate Writing Contest. A winner was selected in each category; due to the relatively large number of entries in the poetry category, two honorable mention poems were named in this category. The entries were judged "blindly" by members of the Pitt English Department faculty who have not facilitated a Writers' Café session in the last semester. The winners are

Fiction: Patrick Manning, for "How Do You Mean?"

Creative Non-Fiction: Debra Lytle, for "Far from the Creek"

Poetry: Mukai Shumba, for "Elegy to My Mother"

Honorable Mentions to Sarah Eastly, for "To Nature, her spirit, mine in hers" and to Ashley Hooper, for "Teaching Li Po English Under a Full Moon and Falling in Love."

Congratulations are in order for the winners, whose work was featured on the WYEP-FM Prosody radio show with Jan Beatty. But, equally, congratulations and thanks are due to all undergrad writers who entered the competition. This part of the creative writing life can be exciting and disappointing. We hope that, if you submitted and did not win, you will continue in your efforts. Every one of us who facilitate at the Writers' Café has stories to tell about the ups and downs of submission and competition.

Let's give a round of applause to Patrick, Debra, Mukai, Sarah, and Ashley!

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