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by Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service
LOUISVILLE â The Presbyterian Writers Guild has selected three winners from among 20 entries in its first-ever Ash Wednesday writing contest.
Ruth Linnea Whitney won the grand prize, $100, for her poem, âAsh Season.â Whitney is a member of First Presbyterian Church in Port Townsend, Washington. Jane Kurtz, winner of the 2020 David Steele Distinguished Writer Award; and Caroline Kurtz, winner of the Best First Book Award for the best first book by a Presbyterian author written during 2018-2019, judged both the poetry and liturgy entries.
Ruth Linnea Whitney
âIn her poem âAsh Season,â Ruth Linnea Whitney takes the reader on a Lenten journey from naïve hope, through death and grief, to a seasoned faith,â the sisters said of the grand prize winner. âShe anchors the spiritual in rich earthy details â the stone walk, a jaw, slender wrists, sawgrass. And after the grief, the poet quiets herse
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Mīharo Murihiku Trust chairwoman Pauline Smith is now a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her work to the pacific arts and the community
One of the greatest accomplishments of the polyfest has been its ability to create an acceptance and understanding of diverse cultures in Southland. Pauline Smith is now a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her work in the pacific arts and the community. Smith is the chairperson of Mīharo Murihiku Trust, previously the Murihiku Māori and Pasifika Trust Cultural Trust. In 2009, she was a founding member of the first Murihiku Polyfest, which led to the establishment of the Murihiku Maori and Pasifika Cultural Trust in 2010 in order to make it an annual event.