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St. Olaf junior wins ACM's 2002 Nick Adams Short Story Contest

Nancy J. Ashmore
May 20, 2002

Benjamin Jacobson, a junior at St. Olaf, has been named the winner of the 30th annual Nick Adams Short Story Contest sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Jacobson's story, "Faculty Brat," was selected from more than 40 stories submitted by students from ACM colleges. He will receive a prize of $1,000. "Faculty Brat" was written in an independent creative writing course taught by Associate Professor of English Jim Heynen, to whom Jacobson, an English major from Lake Crystal, Minn., expressed his thanks. Stephen Raleigh Byler, author of Searching for Intruders: A Novel in Stories, served this year as the final judge for the contest, which derives its name from The Nick Adams Stories written by Ernest Hemingway. Judges in past years have included Jane Smiley, Saul Bellow, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Anne Tyler, Maya Angelou, Barbara Kingsolver, Jane Hamilton and Charles Baxter.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.