Chattanooga State Announces Writers@Work Essay Winners Monday, April 12, 2021
Writers@Work essay contest winners from left, Jennifer Stewart, 2nd place; Marleigh Meggs, 1st place; and Mariah Laux, 3rd place
Chattanooga State Community College welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern poet Jericho Brown to its award-winning Writers@Work series that celebrates Southern literature by integrating the work of selected authors into the curriculum of the Department s Composition Two course.
Each year, professors submit the strongest Composition Two essays focused on the Writers@Work text, and a panel of writing instructors serve as judges. This year s students prepared literary analysis essays on poems from Jericho Brown s The Tradition.