Introducing the 2011 Judges and Jury’s Choice!
Posted by: symposiumorganizer on: May 25, 2011
Drum roll please…
We would like the introduce the 2011 Jury’s Choice recipients in the Performing, Visual, and Literary Arts categories! We had over 130 awesome submissions this year, and we congratulate these 14 individuals on crafting such outstanding poems, videos, artwork, and stories.
2011 JURY’S CHOICE
Dan Perez (Washington AmeriCorps) - “Looking after a First Grader at the Computer Lab” Poetry
Isabel Van Dyke (Oregon AmeriCorps) - “Wait, How is that Service?” Service Story
James Millikan (Washington AmeriCorps) - “Poder es Servir” Poetry
Jamey Davidsmeyer (Oregon VISTA) - “That View from the Top of a Mountain” Fiction
MidiAna Bilik-Franklin (Washington VISTA) - “The Sweet Side of Service” Video
Nick Sabolik (Washington AmeriCorps) - “Views of Resilience” Service Story
Rebecca de Greyt (Oregon VISTA) - “’U'CAN Make a Difference” Video
Stuart Kramer (Oregon AmeriCorps) - “My Mind Wakes in the Little Valley” Poetry
Tina Duffey (Washington AmeriCorps) – “A Prayer for the Future” Visual
Sarah Hollingworth (Oregon AmeriCorps) – “The Constant Struggle” Visual
Jessica Lewis (Washington AmeriCorps) – “We Built This House” Visual
2011 FINALISTS (Honorable Mention)
Jennifer Schmidt, “The Porch” Fiction
Sandra Lampe-Martin, “What’s in a Name?” Fiction
Amanda Park, “The Interested Path”;
Hana Sant, “The Small Joys” Story
Joshua McGuire, “Merry Christmas to Your Nose” Story
Richard Barry, “How to Win Friends and Influence People on the Rez” Story
Erin Lunde, “What Are Those People Doing in Our Community?” Poetry
Jenna Fisher, “The Gap/La Brecha” Poetry
Kristine Rouska, “Beginnings”;
Carrie Thompson, Charlotte Thompson, Sally Paulson, “AmeriHeart” Video
Jessica Johnson, “Allies in Action: Uniting Girls to Create Change” Video
Sharon Gavin, “Year After Year” song
Trevor Klicker & Emily James, “Hand Me Down” Song
Alexandra Scanlon, “Breaking Free” Visual
Rachel Crump & Sasha Brown “Stories of Acceptance” Visual
David Gifford, “Issaquah Highlands 2011″;
How did we determine these as the most exemplary projects? Here is the list of professional judges who reviewed all the Finalists in each category to bring out the best:
DAVID BIESPIEL is an American poet and founder of the Attic Institute. He is the author of The Book of Men and Women, Wild Civility, Pilgrims & Beggars, and Shattering Air, as well as an essential book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces. He has been a contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Slate, in addition to many literary periodicals such as Poetry magazine, Sewanee Review, Parnassus, and Literary Imagination. His column on poetry in The Oregonian is the longest-running column on poetry in an American newspaper. Among his honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Award in Literature, a Lannan Fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry. In 2010, he was appointed to the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
KATE BALDUS is the Director of the VISTA Project at Bank Street College of Education in New York. She has an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She has taught writing in community colleges, universities and prison education programs.
ANNE DIMOCK is an author, librettist and playwright. Her plays and an opera have been produced in Minnesota and Hawaii. Her nonfiction book, Humble Pie, Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust, was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award. She has garnered awards, fellowships and residencies for her other nonfiction writing.
MICHELE GLAZER is a writer whose books include On Tact, & the Made Up World, and Aggregate of Disturbances, both from the University of Iowa Press. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and Literary Arts. Glazer directs and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program at Portland State University.
APRIL HENRY is a New York Times-bestselling author of 11 mysteries and thrillers for adults and teens, including Girl, Stolen and Learning to Fly.
JEANNE LOHMANN has published nine books of poetry and two volumes of prose; her new poetry collection, AS IF WORDS, is scheduled for publication in Spring, 2012. She is eighty eight years old, and continues to be active in the Olympia, Washington poetry community as a writer, reader, and mentor, with so much still to learn about how to do it better!
G. XAVIER ROBILLARD performs comedy around the country and has written for outlets such as NPR, Comedy Central and McSweeney’s. His novel Captain Freedom was a semi-finalist for the 2010 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
REBECCA SHINE is the co-founder of Graham Street Productions which produces documentary films. She is the producer of Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth which has screened in all 50 states and at the U.S. Capitol this past year. Her passion for literature, social justice and the art of story-telling drew her to documentary film production.
KELLY SIEVERS is a Portland writer and a member of the poetry writing group, The Black Boughs. Her work has been published in many literary journals and in nine anthologies. She is a contributing reviewer for The Permanente Journal’s Soul of the Healer.
MARY SZYBIST received her BA from the University of Virginia and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first collection of poems, Granted, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her second collection, Incarnadine, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2013. Szybist has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Great Lakes Colleges Association, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, and other journals. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she teaches at Lewis & Clark College.
TAMARA WALLACE is founder of Living Stages a theatre company that offers training, facilitation, and performance in interactive theatre for community empowerment. She has travelled to Brazil to do Theatre of the Oppressed in the Landless Workers’ Movement, and she has created theatre with local communities including homeless youth, day laborers, and farm workers. www.teatrocambio.org
KENDL WINTER is a musician and songwriter who lives in Olympia, WA. She has a solo project on K Records, and also performs with The Pasties, The Blackberry Bushes Stringband, and Southern Skies. www.myspace.com/winterkendl
