2011 Student Writing Awards Booklet - Santa Fe Community College

Academic Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Winner
Flannery O’Connor: Religion and Faith in “A Good Man is Hard
to Find” by Shari Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Runner-Up
Fear:Transforming Our Values by Frances Boyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Honorable Mention
Elements of the Iconic in Bicycle Times by Eric Reinach . . . . . . . . . . . .60
The Santa Fe Community College Student Writing Awards are
given out annually. All students enrolled in at least three credits in either
the Fall or Spring semesters are eligible. Interested students submitted their
work, which was then judged by a group of judges selected from the staff at
SFCC. The places were determined on the basis of the judges’ rankings. In
addition to being published in Accolades, the authors were invited to give a
public reading at the SFCC Student Writing Awards Celebration. Winners
and Runners-up also received monetary prizes funded by the GROW
SFCC Foundation. Special thanks to the GROW SFCC Foundation for
funding these prizes.
The Student Writing Awards exist to celebrate the diverse voices
of SFCC students and to recognize the already-present talent of these stilldeveloping
writers. This recognition also provides encouragement to the
writers to continue their pursuit of original written expression.
The Winner and Runners-up in each category are also eligible for
the GROW Richard Bradford Memorial Creative Writing Scholarship.
The scholarship was initiated by Councilwoman Rebecca Wurzburger,
Michael McGarrity, and Charmay Allred in 2010. It is named for novelist
Richard Bradford (1932-2002) who is best known for his 1968 novel Red
Sky at Morning which celebrated the distinct natural and cultural character
of Santa Fe in the form of the fictional town of Corazon Sagrado.
Though he was not born in New Mexico, Bradford had a deep and lasting
connection with Santa Fe and resided there until his death.
The Student Writing Awards are directed by Daniel Kilpatric. The
following people were essential to making The SFCC Student Writing
Awards and Celebration happen: Shuli Lamden, Colleen Lynch, Lucia
Lucero, Justine Carpenter, Jenny Miranda, Kathy Romero, Deborah Boldt,
Elizabeth Good, Collected Works Bookstore and Dorothy Massey, Lauren
Camp, Casey Frank, Meghan McGarrity, Emily Stern, Barbara Woltag, Meg
Lenzer, Deni Javas, Margaret Peters, Julia Deisler, Bethany Carson, and all
the students who entered but did not receive an award.
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