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The Forty-Seventh Annual
Mississippi Literary Competition
for high school students
in SHORT STORY, POETRY, ESSAY, AND DRAMA
Sponsored by
Millsaps College
and
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School
1st Place: $200 each category
2nd Place: $150 each category
3rd Place: $100 each category
RULES:
1. Any Mississippi high school student in grades 10-12 may enter.
2. A student may enter one story, one essay, a maximum of three poems, and a one-act play.
3. Maximum length: Short story, 2500 words; Essay, 1500 words (personal essays only—no academic essays); Poem, 50 lines each; Drama, one-act play of 4000 words.
4. Only unpublished, uncopyrighted, and unpatented work will be accepted. (Exception: publication in school literary journal)
5. Entry fee: $5.00 per submission in each category.
6. Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced (except poetry), on one side of good quality 8½ X 11 paper (computer paper acceptable).
7. Separate title page must include:
- Name, home address, telephone number and e-mail address of writer (writer’s name must not appear elsewhere)
- Name and e-mail address of teacher and name, telephone number and address of school presently attended by writer
- Category entered
- Title of entry (to be repeated on upper right-hand corner of each manuscript page). NOTE: include only one title page per group of poems by a single writer.
- Do not staple title page to entry. Please use a paper clip.
8. Entries must be postmarked no later than FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 2013. Manuscripts will be judged by members of the Millsaps English Department. Manuscripts will not be returned.
9. Teachers of winning writers will be notified the week of April 15, 2013, so they may inform their students. Winners’ work will be published on the St. Andrew’s web site.
Mail to:
Literary Competition
c/o St. Andrew's Episcopal School
370 Old Agency Road
Ridgeland, Mississippi 39157 |
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2013 MLC Winners |
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ESSAY
First Place
Emma Thompson
“Meditation ay Seventeen”
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
Second Place
Plicca Watt
“Houses”
Oxford High School
Third Place
Aritra Biswas
“The Scientist as Artist”
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School
Honorable Mention
Joseph Messer
“Golf and Granddad”
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
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SHORT STORY
First Place (tie)
Annie Kilic
“Sickness is Catching”
Jackson Academy
First Place (tie)
Alexandra B. Crout
“To be a Hero”
Lake High School
Second Place (tie)
Wesley Zhang
“Conforming”
Madison Central High School
Second Place (tie)
Emily G. Carr
“Like Harmattan Chocolate”
Madison Central High School
Third Place (tie)
Kristen Walker
“Off track”
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
Third Place (tie)
Lynne Little
“Hero”
Gautier High School
Honorable Mention
Joseph Messer
“Making Purple”
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
Honorable Mention
William Chase Stogner
“Old Man”
North Pike High School
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POETRY
First Place
Phillip Liu
“Adios, Amigo”
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
Second Place
Elizabeth Burford
“Running Away”
Jackson Academy
Third Place
Oliver Isaacs
“Madness”
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School
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DRAMA
First Place
Gracie Gibson
I Do
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School
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