This year the Scribendi staff reached a crossroads when discussing the recipient of the Staff Choice Art Award. We found the term “art” to be too all-inclusive, especially when comparing works ranging from short films to traditional drawings. We chose to split the award into Staff Choice Visual Art Award and Staff Choice Open Media … Read More
This year’s WRHC Award Winner in Poetry, “Confabulated,” takes a centuries-old story and shows a new perspective. Through powerful imagery, Sheila Dong has made their readers question whether we really want to live in a fairy tale, or whether we are better off just remembering one. Sheila was kind enough to answer questions about their … Read More
This year the Scribendi staff made the decision to split the Staff Choice Art Award into the Staff Choice Visual Art Award and Staff Choice Open Media Award. The Staff Choice Visual Art Award comprises of more traditional media such as painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. This year’s recipient of the Staff Choice Visual Art … Read More
There’s a reason the phrase ‘the personal is political’ has found its way into almost every important social justice movement of our time. Though that phrase has come to mean something different to every generation, it still serves as a powerful slogan for underrepresented populations, whose stories are often lost amid the clamoring politics of … Read More
Spencer Ritchi is the author of “A Bad Day For Jess,” Scribendi’s Staff Choice Award winner for the literature category. With a fresh take on the often-romanticized depression, his raw, realistic portrayal of Jess’s insecurities and fears provide a depth of feeling that captures the complexity of loving someone affected with mental illness. Spencer took some … Read More
This piece was selected as the WRHC award winner in the Open Media category. This essentially means it was deemed the most exemplary open media piece submitted this year. Between the amazing composition of the piece and the unique blend of percussion instruments, it clearly represents the high standard of work the WRHC looks for … Read More
It’s time to meet the winner of this year’s WRHC (Western Regional Honors Council) Art Award Winner. Marco Rodriguez studies at Mt. San Antonio College, and his piece Bird was chosen by a panel of WRHC judges to win this year’s award. Marco was notified of Scribendi’s call for submissions by his college’s honors department, … Read More
*This post is part of a series of blog posts highlighting award winning contributors and supporters of Scribendi. What was the main inspiration for your piece “Enjoy me as a Snack?” I was studying abroad at Edge Hill University in England at the time, I was taking film classes, I was a little lonely, … Read More
*This post is part of a series of blog posts highlighting award winning contributors and supporters of Scribendi. This piece, titled “Guruvayer “ by Alaia Schwelger , was chosen as this year’s WRHC award winning photography piece and it’s not hard to see why. It is a captivating image that really draws the viewer in … Read More
*This post is part of a series of blog posts highlighting award winning contributors and supporters of Scribendi. Cecelia Kelly, a sophomore at the University of New Mexico, uses photography to capture abstract and ambiguous scenes. Her black and white digital photograph, Weird Sisters, was selected as Scribendi’s 2014 Staff Choice Award winner. The photograph, … Read More