Hear My Voice: A 快播 Writing Competition
The Amy Salyer-Nicholls Writing Center presents Hear My Voice: an annual, campus-wide writing competition to find the best submissions in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and academic writing.
The works being celebrated are student submissions and may not reflect official positions of 快播.
Category Details
- Academic:
These submissions include research papers, argumentative or persuasive essays, rhetorical and literary analyses, and other styles of formal writing. - Creative Nonfiction:
These entries are true stories written in vivid, compelling styles. Literacy and personal narratives, memoirs, journalistic work, reflections, and profiles are all examples of creative or literary non-fiction. - Fiction:
Entries for this category include imaginative short-stories which follow a general story structure and incorporate literary techniques. - Poetry:
All genres and forms of poetry are welcome in this category.
2025 Contest
Submissions for Hear My Voice 2025 are now CLOSED.
Our 2025 winners have been announced and will be celebrated on Thursday 10 April in Wells Theatre. We'd love for you to join us!
Please contact the Writing Center at writingcenter@trine.edu for further questions regarding submissions.
Click on the links below to reod our winning submissions!
Academic Writing:
1st Place: 鈥淲hat Will it Take to Abolish Capital Punishment: Examining the Effectiveness of Criminology Research and Abolitionist Rhetoric鈥� by Cale Beer
2nd Place: "'White Man鈥檚 World': How Gender and Racial Biases Affect One鈥檚 Growth in Academia" by Faith Fegley
3rd: Place: 鈥淩ecognizing Bias Associated with Applicant Tracking Systems鈥� by Kharma Gentner
Student Choice Award: 鈥淕enerational Effects of Trauma鈥� by Lana Banks
Poetry:
1st Place: 鈥渇谤耻颈迟产辞虫鈥� by Areeba Kazi
2nd Place and Student Choice Award: 鈥淢y Mother's Hands鈥� by Areeba Kazi
3rd Place: 鈥淣umbers Game鈥� by Upasana Shrestha
Honorable Mention: 鈥淲ould you still love me鈥︹�� by Hope Lang
Non-Fiction:
1st Place: 鈥淭he Messed Up State of the World鈥� by Hope Lang
2nd Place: 鈥淢y Name is Honey鈥� by Cadence Bommarito
3rd Place and Student Choice Award: 鈥泪诲别苍迟颈迟测鈥� by Fahim Faisal Anik
Honorable Mention: 鈥淭he Clever Hans Phenomenon Conference鈥� by Ava McCall
Fiction:
1st Place: 鈥淕irl in the Copper Tower鈥� by Alyssa Martin
2nd Place: 鈥淲hich One is the Real Susanne鈥� by Tetyana Asher
3rd Place and Student Choice Award: 鈥淥ne Day, When Mom is Dead鈥� by Muriel Mackie
Past Winners
With questions about the contest or the Amy Salyer-Nicholls Writing Center, please contact Dr. Janelle Pulczinski.
History
The Hear My Voice Writing Competition is an annual writing competition organized by the Writing Center with support from the Trine HAC department, the Humanities Institute, and HAC Media. The contest was formerly named after Walter Cunningham, a Tri-State University alumnus from the school of business who has sponsored the competition for years.
Early in his career, while working for the U.S Department of Labor, Mr. Cunningham and his team were asked to write reports that would be used as evidence in federal court cases. He found this experience so challenging that he was inspired to embark on a successful campaign to teach himself to write more effectively. Consequently, he and his wife Don Nell sponsored this annual writing competition from 2008 - 2023. When discussing his own writing experience, Mr. Cunningham noted, 鈥淚t has been my lack of English and writing skills throughout my life that encourages me at this time in life to attempt to help others understand in some small way, the importance of obtaining these skills early.鈥�
The ASN Writing Center hopes to uphold his legacy by continuing to support student creativity, critical thinking, and clear articulation of ideas through the Hear My Voice writing competition.