UCA's Writing Department

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AfterWords

 

2009 Essays

2010 Essays



 

UCA’s Learning Communities and the Department of Writing are proud to announce AfterWords, a first-year writing competition.

AfterWords is a university-sponsored academic event held every year.  It is both a writing competition and a student reading held among Residential College students enrolled in Writing 1310 each fall.

In 2007, a small group of Writing Department faculty teaching in UCA's Residential Colleges envisioned a writing competition with a difference: exclusively for freshmen by freshmen. The faculty felt a first-year writing competition could provide a real incentive and reward for good student writing by offering students the opportunity to share their writing with students from other classes, to learn from each other, and have their hard work publicly recognized and praised by peers and faculty.  For the first time, first-year student writers could have a “real” audience. Further, the  competition would provide model essays that can be analyzed, critiqued, and, when appropriate, emulated by other student writers.   What is more, the Residential College writing faculty believe the competition would be a fascinating and diverse avenue for the UCA Firsty-Year Community to wander down: a bazaar of topics, a marketplace of ideas, a store of discussion. 

  

Roy Lichtenstein

Fame. Fortune. Fun.

Overall First Prize = $100.00 Overall Second Prize = $50.00 Overall Third Prize = $ 25.00 Honorable Mention in Each Learning Community = $25.00

 


WHEN:

 

Monday, November 22, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010


WHERE:

 

Fireplace Room
McCastlain Hall


TIME:

 

Monday and Tueday 8:00A.M.-- 4:00P.M.
Tuesday 4:00P.M. AWARDS CEREMONY

 

Reading Schedule


Monday, November 22, 2010


Time

8:00 


Catherine Reid:

"Left Alone"

Veronica Bausom:

"Making History Times Three"

Spencer Griffin:

"Time Saves"

Mariska Jordan:

"I Love You"

 

9:00

 

Taylor Williams:

"A Run"

Patrick Bell:

"Alcohol and I"

Steven Clark:

"A Brotherhood in Water"

Kelsey Brown:

"Down by the Banks of the Riber Charles"

Aaron Burnside:

"My Difficult Relationship With Me"

10:00

Michael Musgrave:

"My Father and the Fight"

 

Amber Atkins:

"A Relationship After Death"

Casey Cameron:

"Seven Months"

Mara Dickerson:

"One Sound, OneHeart-Band"

Jatrice Crumblin:

"Never Good Enough"

11:00

Magnus Pauley:

"Oh My Small Lead Soldier"

Kaleb Young:

"You Disgust Me"

Jordan King:

"Facing What's Under the Bed"

Jennifer Wagner:

"Acceptance"

 

12:00

Charlee Sturch:

"Into the Storm Cellar"

David Freeman:

"Boy of Fall"

Rachel Fairris:

"Behind the Door of Room 244"

Rachel Hartin:

"Happiness Elsewhere"

Julian Porch:

"A Scar on my Heart"

1:00

Josh Gardner:

"Donate Life"

Katie Lacefield:

"Toxic Twins"

Jordan Burns:

"My Mentor"

Matt Allen:

"My Sweetheart"

Alejandro Valentin:

"A Mess"

2:00

Erica Rummel:

"Me and You"

Lucas Nalley:

"One of Many Shelby D"

Nick Lensing:

"Fair or Foul"

Blake Bost:

The Answer We Already Know"

Taylor Johnson:

"How Much Is Too Much?"

 

3:00

Charaya Lathrop: and

"Flowers and Rivers"

Dominic Heien:

"The Driving Power of Bass"

Andrew Frost:

"Black Beauty"

Candice O’Rorke:

"What Doesn't Kill Me, Can Only Make Me Stronger"

 


Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Time
8:00 Colton Henry:

"Overcoming"

Tyler Gray:

"Wrong Place at the Wrong Time"

James Johnson:

"An Alter Ego is Born"

Leslyn Graves:

"Stowaway"

Sara Madron

"Gone Too Soon"

9:25

Britnie Williams:

"Good Habit Gone Bad"

Dustin Poynter:

"Blue Lips"

Alex Williams:

"Downward Spiral

Cheney Turman:

"Statement"
Donnie Turner:

"Nights Ops"
10:50

LeAnne Massanelli:

"Leap Year Jinx"

Natalie Long:

"Forest Fire"

Ethan McMoran:

"Craving the Caf"

Shelby Roofener:

"Rain Commits Murder"
Andrew Elliot:

"The Divine Flasehood"
12:15

Josh Jones:

"Mortality and the Conscious Waterfall"

AJ Addington:

"A Day in the Life of a Gullible Eight Year Old"

John Hockaday:

"Just Work For It"

Alicia Freeman:

Whatever Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger"

Dakota Atchley:

"The Changing of Times"

Allison Mosley:

"It’s Better to Take my Advice than to Learn the Hard Way"

Katie Christ:

"Family by Blood, Love by Choice"


2:00


Faculty Reading: Dr. Steve Lance

2:40

Tianpeng Sun:

"Dude! Let's Go Get More Food!"

Kasey Kopp:

"A Life Most Carbonated"

Stacey Harris:

"A Look into my Life"

Shane Dobson:

"The Convenient Diet"

 

 

4:00

 

AWARDS CEREMONY

 

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