FEstival Schedule
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POETRY
First Place
“Attachment Styles"
Theodore Lopata
University of North Georgia
Second Place
“bottlefed”
Emma Field
Harding University
Third Place
Locklyn Wilchynski
University of Mississippi
Fiction
First Place
“A Mother's Midnight Diary”
Saige Jackson
UTC
Second Place
“Free for the Taking”
Ainslee Davenport
Tennessee Tech University
Third Place
“Baby Teeth”
Nate Donohue
University of Mississippi
Playwriting
First Place
Ward
Ashley Tunnell
University of North Georgia
Second Place
(The Spaces) Between the Fireflies
Jessica Pruitt
MTSU
Third Place
The Nature of Deceit
Daniela Guedez
University of North Georgia
Creative Nonfiction
First Place
“One Foot in a Ditch”
Carolina Kelley
UTC
Second Place
“But Mary Couldn't Read”
Hailey Winningham
Tennessee Tech University
Third Place
“Just, the Adverb”
Sarah Keen
Tennessee Tech University
Formal Essay
First Place
“Misguided Masculinity in the Works of Wilfred Owen”
Savannah Flowers
Columbus State University
Second Place
“Motherhood and Subordination in Morrison's Sula"
Elena Harman
Third Place
“The Intersection of Race and Sexuality in Punch Me Up to the Gods”
Katie Nelson
Tennessee Tech University
Literary Magazine
First Place
Castings
Ashlyn Arnold, Baridakara Meneh, Israel Rusch
Christian Brothers University
Second Place
Arden
Elizabeth Woods
Columbus State University
Third Place
The Switch
Elle Edwards
UT Martin
Literary E-zine
First Place
Applause
Ari Long
University of Arkansas Fort Smith
