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Student writers compete for top awards

Clare Kennedy '07
April 21, 2005

The St. Olaf English Department is sponsoring an all-campus student writing competition. Students submitted original writing to earn the Paulson Poetry award, the Rolvaag Fiction award, the Creative Non-fiction award, the Swanson Humor Award and the award for Best Sentence. The prizes for first place range from $50 to $150.

Winners will be announced May 4 at 7 p.m., in Rolvaag Memorial Library, room 525 by judges Leslie Adrienne Miller and Heid E. Erdrich, both authors and faculty members at the University of St. Thomas. Miller holds an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston and is the author of several collections, including Eat Quite Everything You See. Erdrich, holds degrees from Dartmouth and Johns Hopkins, and is the author of a collection of poems, Fishing for Myth. In addition to writing poetry she reviews Native American writing.

Contact Carole Engblom at 507-646-3271 or leigh@stolaf.edu.