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South Carolina teens share their stories and ideas about how to
make their home state better. How can we make South Carolina
better? Normally this question is reserved for lawmakers and
voters, but Writing South Carolina, volume 3, gives voice to 50
high school juniors and seniors from across the State who have
offered suggestions. The University of South Carolina Honors
College annual writing contest presents a necessary voice for them
as well as a revealing portrait of their lives and desires using
their own words and insights. Contest judge Mary Alice Monroe has
said of the contributing students, "They are astonishingly
talented, further ahead in the game than I was at their age."
Through a variety of short, creative genres, students share their
own gripping experiences in South Carolina, often about growing up
and going to school here. This year's selections range from poems
about the cycle of abuse to short stories about minimum wage to
essays about problematic sex education in public schools. Writing
South Carolina, volume 3, offers a collection steeped in
creativity, honesty, and clarity. High school students witness and
encounter some of the most subtle and serious problems in South
Carolina's school system-and they demand change. Monroe, a New York
Times best-selling author of children's books and novels, including
A Lowcountry Christmas and The Butterfly's Daughter, provides a
foreword.
"All of you who contributed to this book write much better than I
did in high school." That remarkable observation was made by Pat
Conroy in the foreword to the first collection of student writing
generated by the South Carolina High School Writing Contest, and it
embodies the contest's goals: to encourage young people to write,
to think deeply and creatively, to express themselves and thereby
to recognize and cultivate their abilities. This second volume of
Writing South Carolina features the insightful and inspiring
entries of each of the twenty-nine winners and finalists: high
school juniors and seniors who were challenged to share, using any
genre, their ideas for making South Carolina a better place to
live.
Founded in 2013 by Steven Lynn, dean of the South Carolina Honors
College, this annual writing contest was designed to engage the
state's future leaders and thinkers. Each year the Honors College
invited South Carolina high school juniors and seniors to respond
to the question "How can we make South Carolina better?" in 750
words or fewer, in the genre of their choice. The finalists,
selected by a panel of preliminary judges, were invited to the
University of South Carolina campus for a second round comprising a
forty-minute impromptu writing contest. This round was evaluated by
two grand judges--South Carolina natives who have achieved national
acclaim: short-story writer and novelist Pam Durban and poet Nikky
Finney. Each chose a topic for the impromptu contest: write about a
meaningful book and complete the statement "I come from...." This
volume features the writing of the seventy-one finalists from the
2016-17 South Carolina High School Writing Contest.
A heartfelt collection of personal stories that connect a common
past and offer hope for a promising future. For many, South
Carolina is a sunny vacation destination. For those who have been
lucky enough to call it home, it is a source of rich memories and
cultural heritage. In this final volume of State of the Heart,
thirtyeight nationally and regionally known writers share their
personal stories about places in South Carolina that hold special
meaning for them. While this is a book about place, it is
ultimately about people's connections to one another, to a complex,
common past, and to ongoing efforts to build a future of promise
and possibility in the Palmetto State. Editor Aida Rogers groups
the essays thematically, with poetry, vintage photographs, and even
recipes introducing each section. She unites pieces by New York
Times best-selling novelists Patti Callahan Henry, CJ Lyons, and
John Jakes; USA Today best-selling mystery writer Susan Boyer;
historians Walter Edgar, Orville Vernon Burton, and Bernard Powers;
artist and author Mary Whyte; and cookbook authors Sallie Ann
Robinson and the Lee Brothers-just to name a few. Nikky Finney, a
South Carolina native and winner of the 2011 National Book Award
for poetry, provides the foreword. The afterword is written by
Cassandra King, author of six novels, including the New York Times
best seller The Sunday Wife.
A heartfelt collection of personal stories that connect a common
past and offer hope for a promising future. For many, South
Carolina is a sunny vacation destination. For those who have been
lucky enough to call it home, it is a source of rich memories and
cultural heritage. In this final volume of State of the Heart,
thirtyeight nationally and regionally known writers share their
personal stories about places in South Carolina that hold special
meaning for them. While this is a book about place, it is
ultimately about people's connections to one another, to a complex,
common past, and to ongoing efforts to build a future of promise
and possibility in the Palmetto State. Editor Aida Rogers groups
the essays thematically, with poetry, vintage photographs, and even
recipes introducing each section. She unites pieces by New York
Times best-selling novelists Patti Callahan Henry, CJ Lyons, and
John Jakes; USA Today best-selling mystery writer Susan Boyer;
historians Walter Edgar, Orville Vernon Burton, and Bernard Powers;
artist and author Mary Whyte; and cookbook authors Sallie Ann
Robinson and the Lee Brothers-just to name a few. Nikky Finney, a
South Carolina native and winner of the 2011 National Book Award
for poetry, provides the foreword. The afterword is written by
Cassandra King, author of six novels, including the New York Times
best seller The Sunday Wife.
South Carolina is a state of inspiration as well as recreation.
Through its natural beauty, storied heritage, and curious
character, the Palmetto State finds its way into the hearts and
imaginations of every native, resident, and guest to set foot on
its 32,000 square miles of soil. Continuing the format of the
popular original, this second volume of State of the Heart: South
Carolina Writers on the Places They Love celebrates and
commemorates the connections that the accomplished contributors
have found in the well-known and far-flung locations most dear to
them. With companionable charm and storytellers' spirits, editor
Rogers, Aida and the thirty-eight contributors invite you to amble
across South Carolina with them for a chance to see the state as
they have come to know it. For writers beloved places can
captivate, teach, comfort, and occasionally haunt. In this
collection contributors reflect on their hometowns, the rivers and
roads that marked their lives' journeys, and the maligned
neighbourhoods they transformed just by living and working in them.
Family beach vacations, churches and churchyards, athletic arenas
modest and grand, a mountain vista, a quiet pond, a city park, an
old-time produce market, Lake Murray, Brookgreen Gardens these are
just a sampling of the nearly three dozen private and public places
favoured by this diverse group of writers of fiction, memoir,
poetry, history, journalism, and more. Photographs, artwork, verse,
and even a few recipes accompany the essays, bringing readers
further into sharing the writers' experiences. While State of the
Heart is rooted in the landscape of South Carolina, readers from
anywhere will relate to its universal themes of growing up and
growing old, recognition of past mistakes, returned-to faith, the
closeness of family and friends, honouring those who came before,
and setting our collective sights on the promise of the future for
cherished people and places. Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina's
poet laureate, provides the foreword to this collection, which
includes her poem ""One River, One Boat.
"How should we improve the state of South Carolina?" That
invitingly open-ended question served as the basis for the first
annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest as the call went
out in fall 2013 to juniors and seniors across the Palmetto State,
encouraging them to take a stance through good, thought-provoking
writing. The nearly five hundred responses that resulted were as
impressive in quality as they were in quantity. Young writers
sounded off on issues of race relations, environmental
conservation, economic imbalance, opportunities of infrastructure,
substance and physical abuse, and the maladies of education. Most
wrote on issues of education rooted in their own burgeoning
awareness of its gifts and limitations in their lives. From that
pool of contestants, twenty-three finalists rose to the top to have
their initial entries and subsequent writing on a favorite book or
place judged by best-selling author Pat Conroy. The insightful and
often revelatory responses from those finalists--including the
first, second, and third place winners by grade--are collected here
in Writing South Carolina.
In heartfelt essays, poems, short stories, and drama, these
diverse writers lay bare their attitudes and impressions of South
Carolina as they have experienced it and as they hope to reshape
it. The resulting anthology is a compelling portrait of the
Palmetto State's potential as advocated by some of its best and
brightest young writers. Editor Steven Lynn provides an
introduction and contest judge Pat Conroy provides a foreword to
the collection.
In State of the Heart, Aida Rogers has crafted an artful love
letter to our state, with contributions from a host of nationally
and regionally recognized writers who've written short essays on
the South Carolina places that they cherish. This anthology
provides a multifaceted historical and personal view of the
Palmetto State.
Thematically organized, this collection offers a geographic and
emotional scope that is as diverse as its contributors.
Sportswriters describe beloved arenas; historians reflect on church
ruins and forts. A playwright recalls the magic of her first
theater experience; a food writer revels in a coastal joint that
serves fresh oysters. Backyards, front porches, a small library at
a children's home, the drama and camaraderie of building the
Savannah River Site, and places that are gone except in the
memories of the writers who loved them--these are just a few of the
locales covered, all showing how South Carolina has changed and
inspired people in a variety of ways.
State of the Heart evokes a sense of history and timelessness by
bringing together heartfelt responses to South Carolina locales
rooted in memory, drawing on reflection, inspiration, and love. The
anthology reveals a state that is more than a playground for
tourists; it's a state of human hiding places that echo in the
hearts of its literary citizens. Though presented as a book about
place, the collection is ultimately about our shared connections to
one another, to a complex common past, and to ongoing efforts to
frame and build a future of promise and possibility.
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