The winners of the 2021-2022 Echoes & Images Literary and Visual Art Contest have been announced.
Judges selected winners from a competitive field of excellent contest entries submitted by Northeast State students. Entries are submitted in the categories of original art, photography, and literature of both fiction and nonfiction.
The selections will be published in this year’s edition of the magazine. The judges for Echoes and Images express their deepest thanks to the talented writers and artists who contributed their work. This year’s winners are:
Visual Art
First Place: Brandon Slaughter, Forgotten, oil on cardboard
Second Place: Jessica Gregg,Frontline, acrylic on canvas
Third Place: Sandra Moody,Tom Buten Lane, acrylic on canvas
Honorable Mention: Nichole Taylor, POP!, digital photography
Honorable Mention: Ellie Salyer,Large Lad, digital media
Additional visual art chosen by the Judge:
Andrew Black,Abstraction of Hands, pen and ink on paper
Elizabeta Dacruz, Red Tied, digital media
Finley Grace Large, Puesta del Sol, acrylic on paper
Jessica Grace Rogers, The Girl in the Clouds, pen on paper
Sarah Kirk, The Night Circus, oil on canvas
Amanda Weaver,Behind the Mask, charcoal, graphite, and colored pencil on paper
John Flaifel,Unamused, acrylic and gouache on canvas
Echoes and Images is Northeast State’s award-winning student literary magazine recognizing students’ visual art and literary work. The magazine has been published annually for 34 years.
The public is invited to see the arts and meet the artists at the annual Echoes & Images Reading, Art Exhibition, and Awards Ceremony scheduled April 13. The ceremony takes place at 6:00 p.m. in Room L106 of Wayne Basler Library at the Blountville campus.
The winners of the 2021-2022 Echoes & Images Literary and Visual Art Contest have been announced.
Judges selected winners from a competitive field of excellent contest entries submitted by Northeast State students. Entries are submitted in the categories of original art, photography, and literature of both fiction and nonfiction.
The selections will be published in this year’s edition of the magazine. The judges for Echoes and Images express their deepest thanks to the talented writers and artists who contributed their work. This year’s winners are:
Visual Art
First Place: Brandon Slaughter, Forgotten, oil on cardboard
Second Place: Jessica Gregg, Frontline, acrylic on canvas
Third Place: Sandra Moody, Tom Buten Lane, acrylic on canvas
Honorable Mention: Nichole Taylor, POP!, digital photography
Honorable Mention: Ellie Salyer, Large Lad, digital media
Additional visual art chosen by the Judge:
Andrew Black, Abstraction of Hands, pen and ink on paper
Elizabeta Dacruz, Red Tied, digital media
Finley Grace Large, Puesta del Sol, acrylic on paper
Jessica Grace Rogers, The Girl in the Clouds, pen on paper
Sarah Kirk, The Night Circus, oil on canvas
Amanda Weaver, Behind the Mask, charcoal, graphite, and colored pencil on paper
John Flaifel, Unamused, acrylic and gouache on canvas
Nonfiction
First Place: Dustin Farmer, “The Mountain”
Second Place: Rebekah Saulsbury, “Type 1”
Third Place: Emily Dean, “Eight Minutes”
Honorable Mention: Heather Taylor, “Wrongfully Accused”
Fiction
First Place: Parker Black, “The Cliff, the Gates, and the Man with the Key.”
Second Place: Hannah Grace Haskins, “Fool’s Gold.”
Third Place: Peyton Kyle Minick, “Escape from Black Water.”
Honorable Mention: Mackenly Jones, “Inside Look at the Luddite Murderers”
Honorable Mention: Jemma Baker, “he plays with his life as he plays with a toy.”
Poetry
First Place: Brianne Clifton, “You Are”
Second Place: Rebekah Saulsbury, “Choices”
Third Place : Natalie Perhne, “The Man Behind the Curtain Next to Me”
Honorable Mention: Sarah Harvey, “My Brother’s Shadow”
Honorable Mention: Stacey Barkley, “Temptation’s Dance”
Finalists:
Chloe Eastridge, “Around My Block”
Madison Hayes, “The Conversations We Never Had”
Jemma Baker, “Expected Betrayal”
Patricia Stover, “Free”
Chloe Eastridge, “From the Break Window”
Sam Huffine, “Grocery Store”
Brianne Clifton, “#icantbreathe”
Susan Lafever, “Why is This Room so Cold?”
Keelan Rally Kilgore, “Shakespeare’s Raven Sequel.”
John Flaifel, “Vulture”
Echoes and Images is Northeast State’s award-winning student literary magazine recognizing students’ visual art and literary work. The magazine has been published annually for 34 years.
The public is invited to see the arts and meet the artists at the annual Echoes & Images Reading, Art Exhibition, and Awards Ceremony scheduled April 13. The ceremony takes place at 6:00 p.m. in Room L106 of Wayne Basler Library at the Blountville campus.
(All artists’ work published with permission.)
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