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by Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service LOUISVILLE — 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, “Ash Season.” 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 “In her poem ‘Ash Season,’ Ruth Linnea Whitney takes the reader on a Lenten journey from naïve hope, through death and grief, to a seasoned faith,” the sisters said of the grand prize winner. “She anchors the spiritual in rich earthy details — the stone walk, a jaw, slender wrists, sawgrass. And after the grief, the poet quiets herse

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