{"id":6540,"date":"2017-03-17T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/17\/furman-to-receive-awards-at-southern-literary-festival\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:56:03","slug":"furman-to-receive-awards-at-southern-literary-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-to-receive-awards-at-southern-literary-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman to receive awards at Southern Literary Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1937, the Southern Literary Festival is an organization of 18 southern colleges, which aims to promote southern literature. Each year a different school hosts the festival, an undergraduate writing conference that offers participants workshops, readings, and master classes in a wide variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, playwriting, and non-fiction. This year&#8217;s festival will be held at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith March 30-April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Two Furman students and last year&#8217;s editor of <em>The Echo<\/em> will come home with prizes.\u00a0Julia Britt, a junior Religion major from Greenville, S.C., won third prize for creative nonfiction. Britt&#8217;s essay, &#8220;Holy Ground,&#8221; about place, belief, and barbecue, was one of only three essays to be honored. Margaret Shelton, a senior English major from Myrtle Beach, S.C., won Honorable Mention for formal essay for her work, &#8220;Anne Carson: Shaping the Self and Shifting Under the Reader&#8217;s Gaze.&#8221;\u00a0Furman&#8217;s literary \u00a0magazine, <em>The Echo<\/em>, won third prize. Editor Cory Bailey, an English major, graduated in 2016. Southern Literary Festival member universities nominate works, and prize winners are included in the Festival anthology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1937, the Southern Literary Festival is an organization of 18 southern colleges, which aims to promote southern literature. Each year a different school hosts the festival, an undergraduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}