霍林斯宣布了第57届南希·索普年度诗歌比赛的六名获胜者

Accolades and Awards, Creative Writing

2021年3月18日

说诗歌不赚钱的人肯定没申请过诗歌比赛。 Case in point, Hollins University announced this week the first- and second-place winners to its 57^th Annual Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest. 这次国际高中女生竞赛表彰了6位才华横溢的作家，乔治亚州苏瓦尼市兰伯特高中的萨米克莎·加赫尔瓦尔（Samiksha Gaherwar）以诗歌《斯拉夫数字》（slavish numerals）获得了最高奖。

Gaherwar说：“我非常荣幸能获得这个奖项，也非常兴奋有机会参加霍林夏季创意写作项目。” “感谢您培养了我们这一代人对诗歌的欣赏和热爱！”

In addition to free tuition and housing for the university’s 2021 summer creative writing workshops, Gaherwar will also receive a $350 cash prize and publication in 货物, Hollins’ student-run literary magazine, plus the option to receive a renewable scholarship of up to $5000 a year, should she choose to enroll at the university.

Hollins also recognized six second-place poems, each of which will be published in 货物。 In a rare occurrence, two of those poems were submitted by the same student, Chaerim Kim-Worthington of North Hollywood, California, who received a separate “double-winner” prize of free tuition and housing for Hollinsummer. 其他第二名获奖者将获得500美元的奖学金，适用于相同的夏季项目。

“今年的比赛竞争非常激烈，”霍林斯大学英语和创意写作副教授、比赛协调员杰西·范·埃登说。 The 57^th edition received a total of 968 poems written by 607 contestants (each contestant could submit only two poems). The young writers hailed from 赌球在线 the United States, D.C., Puerto Rico, and 18 countries abroad, including some as far-flung as Taiwan, Germany, New Zealand, and Kazakhstan. “[Gaherwar] ended up sending me an email that was really over the moon,” recalled van Eerden about the first-place winner’s response. “她也很谦虚，这让我印象深刻，她的作品得到认可时，她有点惊讶。”

在大流行期间为比赛挑选获胜者也不是一件容易的事。第一轮评审是亲自进行的，由于新冠肺炎的限制，范伊登和大约12名本科生和研究生负责从最初的968首诗中筛选出21首。 2月24日，最后一轮评审通过Zoom进行，来自霍林斯大学英语和创意写作系的60多名师生参与了评审。

“在这个过程中支持这么多高中年轻女性是件很可爱的事，”范伊登说。

以下是完整的获奖名单：

首先:

Samiksha Gaherwar

兰伯特高中

佐治亚州Suwanee

“奴性的数字”

第二名:

希礼包

Cab Calloway艺术高中

威尔明顿,德