{"id":1119,"date":"2016-06-17T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T09:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/?p=783"},"modified":"2017-06-29T20:53:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:53:31","slug":"meet-the-winning-writers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/2016\/06\/17\/meet-the-winning-writers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Winning Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ana-Alexander\"<\/a>

Ana Alexander ’16<\/p><\/div>\n

Ana Alexander \u201916<\/strong>
\nEnglish: Writing Major Winsted, Minn.<\/p>\n

When Alexander was seven years old, she wrote a letter \u2028to J.K. Rowling in crayon, giving her plot suggestions for future Harry Potter novels. She has an affinity for puns, an obsession with the Roaring Twenties, and loves coffee. She is an advertisement representative and features editor for WSU\u2019s weekly student newspaper, The Winonan, the prose editor for Satori, WSU\u2019s fine arts magazine, and a member of Sigma Tau Delta.<\/p>\n

Alexander won in the category of nonfiction essay with \u201cStuck in the Clouds,\u201d selected by creative nonfiction author Kent Cowgill.<\/p>\n

\u201cAna Alexander\u2019s essay stood out on a number of fronts,\u201d said Cowgill. \u201cIt shows a rich command of interesting narrative detail; its pacing, handling of dialogue, and humorous touches were all unusually compelling for an undergraduate writer; and not least, it treated the sky-diving experience with both the enthusiasm of a budding addict and the kind of objective distance that attracts those readers, like myself, who find the adventure both tempting and terrifying to try.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Kaysey<\/a>

Kaysey Price ’16<\/p><\/div>\n

Kaysey Price \u201916<\/strong><\/p>\n

Literature And Writing Major Detroit Lakes, Minn.<\/p>\n

Price\u2019s first poem was a four line, 2nd Grade composition about her non-existent pet dog. She is a features writer for The Winonan, a mentor for Teen Voices, the poetry editor for this year\u2019s Satori, and a member of Sigma Tau Delta.\u2028 Her interests include quoting Gilmore Girls, making puns, exploring what goes unsaid, and deconstructing beliefs that are taken for granted.<\/p>\n

Price took top category for her poetry submissions, selected by poet Betsy Wheeler. \u201cThe wholly original voice of Kaysey Price\u2019s poems struck me immediately — their attention to rhythm and sound, their inventive use of verbs, and their delight in life and language. I wanted to read them aloud, repeatedly, and to inhabit the world they explore,\u201d Wheeler commented.<\/p>\n

Leah Perri \u201916<\/strong><\/p>\n

English Major Kenosha, Wis.<\/p>\n

\"Leah<\/a>

Leah Perri ’16<\/p><\/div>\n

Perri earned a scholarship for her short story, \u201cDate Night,\u201d selected by fiction writer Patrick Hicks. Perri is a Kenosha, Wis., native and a senior\u2028 at WSU, where she will graduate with a B.A. in English: Writing. She is currently the education reporter for the Winona Daily News and has over 200 clips, ranging from explanatory pieces on K-12 education to larger projects, such as a series of vignettes on returned Peace Corps volunteers.<\/p>\n

Other notable experience includes writing for Project FINE\u2019s Hearing the Voices, a project that features the stories of 15 Winona County refugees and immigrants, and mentoring area high school students in a poetry group called Teen Voices. Perri is also a writing tutor on campus. She plans to travel and work on organic farms in Europe for a year before pursuing a communications career at a nonprofit organization focusing on sustainability.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeah Perri\u2019s marvelous story, \u2018Date Night,\u2019 explores issues of love and loss, growing older and letting go. With clear prose and a poignant narrative, she introduces two neighbors that don\u2019t seem to have much in common, and yet they need each other. A beautiful story that says much about the human condition,\u201d stated Hicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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