Writers� Club Announces Poetry Contest Winners
The Writers� Club announced the winners of its second annual R.U.M. Poetry Awards, named in honor of local physician Dr. Robert U. Moersch, at a poetry reading in the Gamecock Center on March 29. Frances Shannon Hutchinson won the first-place prize of $100 for her poem �The Footpath.� Russell Price took second place for �The Damned Poets� and Clifford J. Webb, third place for �Eating Flies.�

Runners-up were Amanda Gober, Aurelia Gooden, Carol Hilton, Megan Snider, and Larry Welch. The contest was judged by five English Department faculty including Dr. Pitt Harding, the club�s sponsor. The Writers� Club also sponsors a fiction contest in the fall. Congratulations to the winners!

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