JCC Announces Literary Competition Winners

September 8, 2004

(From left) English Instructor and Cynthia DeFord Adams Literary Competition Chair, Tom Howerton, congratulates Gwen Gray, Michelle McLaughlin, Kimberly Wood, and Leonard Ballard on placing in this year’s competition. Not pictured are Robbie Adams, and Joseph Davis.

Johnston Community College announced this year’s winners of the Cynthia DeFord Adams Literary Competition on Wednesday, September 1, during a reception held on the College’s campus. The competition, began by Ms. Adams, a Four Oaks poet, is held annually and its purpose is to encourage writing among the JCC student body. Open to full and part-time students, the competition awards prizes in two categories, poetry and prose.

The competition committee selected the top three competitors for poetry and prose. Each first place winner received $125, second garnered $100 each, and third place received $50. Winners for the poetry division are: first place: Michelle McLaughlin second place: Kimberly Wood, third place: Robbie Adams. In the division of prose, Gwen Gray took the top honor, Joseph Davis, second place, and Leonard Ballard, third place.