Writing South Carolina

Selections from the Fourth Annual High School Writing Contest

Auteur: Rogers, Aïda; Lynn, Steven
Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
Collection: Young Palmetto Books
ISBN: 9781611179989
eISBN Pdf: 9781611179996
eISBN Epub: 9781611179996
Lieu de publication: South Carolina , United States
Année de publication électronique: 2019
Mois : Août
DDC: 810.8/09757
Langue: Anglais

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Founded in 2013 by Steven Lynn, dean of the South Carolina Honors College, this annual writing contest was designed to engage the state's future leaders and thinkers. Each year the Honors College invited South Carolina high school juniors and seniors to respond to the question "How can we make South Carolina better?" in 750 words or fewer, in the genre of their choice.

The finalists, selected by a panel of preliminary judges, were invited to the University of South Carolina campus for a second round comprising a forty-minute impromptu writing contest. This round was evaluated by two grand judges—South Carolina natives who have achieved national acclaim: short-story writer and novelist Pam Durban and poet Nikky Finney. Each chose a topic for the impromptu contest: write about a meaningful book and complete the statement "I come from...." This volume features the writing of the seventy-one finalists from the 2016–17 South Carolina High School Writing Contest.

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WRITING SOUTH CAROLINA
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Juniors
- Interfaith Dialogue and Collaboration: The Key to Embracing Diversity
- The Most Turbulent Journey to Peace
- Pallid Hubris
- Americana
- The Case against Capital Punishment
- My Love for the Mockingbird
- Monster of Our Roots
- The Journey Home
- What the Headlines Won’t Mention: Walter Scott 2015
- I Come From
- South Carolina Superhero
- Am I Good Enough
- Just One
- Where I’m From
- Pain from the Past
- From the Forgotten
- Unbuckling the Bible Belt
- The Women Who Built Me
- A Gordian Knot of Our Own
- Departed
- As a Metal Box
- Red
- Religious Reform
- The Blue House
- Toy World
- I Come from “Thank You”
- A Disguised Dilemma
- Tuesdays
- Murdered for Murdering
- Faith
- Mishaps
- Home
- Carolina in My Mind
- Lust for Life
- The Powerful Voice of Positivity and the People
- Don’t Be a Reason Why
- A Question of Safety
- Everyday Heroes
- Summer’s South Carolina
- My Past, My Present, My Future
- S.O.S. “Save Our State!”
- Longing/Ambition
- Who Am I?
- Not Everything Comes Easy
- Fighting for Longer Lives
- Under the Influence of Stephen King
- A Bigger South Carolina
- Phenom
- Shooting Pebbles at the Sun
- DNA: Do Not Be Afraid
- Perspective
- Home
- A Foster Kid Speaks Up
- I Come from Forgiveness
- Illegal to Educate
- The Greatest Came from a Tragedy
- Reforming a Broken System: SC Alimony Laws
- Germlish
- Whispering Oaks
- Childhood
- Our Hidden Beauty
- Where I Come From
- El Estado Bilingüe (The Bilingual State)
- I Come from Running
- The Ceilings Don’t Work, but the TVs Do
- A Passion for South Carolina
- Another Day
- A Shared Birthday Gift
- At the End of Time
- “Even Death Has a Heart”
- Building a Better South Carolina
- Humble Beginnings
- The Island a World Away
- From Timid to Confident
- South Carolina, How Does Your Garden Grow?
- What Planted the Seed
- Perfect Obliteration
- What My Grandfather Gave Me
- Big Improvements for South Carolina
- Success from Hardships
Seniors
- C for Corrosion of Curriculum
- The Entitled
- Love Is Love Is Love Is Love
- Grieving with Seagulls
- They Tried to Take Your Voice Away
- The Arm
- Ignorance’s Education
- The Transparency of Diversity
- GSAs for a Better South Carolina
- I Come From
- For the Love of a Daughter
- Love Yourself
- Recipe for a Mixed Girl
- Ode to Mother
- The Opposite of Moving Forward
- Encouragement from the Doctor
- How One Healthy Solution Can Lead to Others
- The Secret to Success
- South Carolina’s Final Exam
- The Battle of Time
- South Carolina’s Movie Crisis
- The Giving Book
- Murky Eyes
- A New Horizon
- What Shapes Our Horizon
- Unknown Loneliness
- Making Foreign Language Less Foreign
- Palmetto Proud
- Natural Beauty and Beautiful People
- The Power of Disagreement
- Keep Them at Home
- Those Who Shaped Me
- The Flaws in the Education System
- Finding Family, Hope, and Trust
- The Call
- The Road I Travel
- Stereo South
- Culture
- The Voice of the Silent Victims
- I Come from You
- Broken
- Dysfunctional and Perfect
- Getting to the Root of the Problems: The Deficiencies of the SC Public Education System
- Inspiration from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
- Domestic Violence and Deadly Silence
- The Window to the Soul
- Hospitality versus Heritage
- My Soul Book
- One Choice
- The Backs of My Family Members
- Crime against the Future
- Traveling Two Roads
- A New Generation
- A Lesson from an Unexpected Place
- Southern Values
- Where I Come From
Contributors