Contributor Profile: WRHC Poetry Award Winner Sheila Dong

July 9, 2015

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

Contributor Profile: WRHC Creative Nonfiction Award Winner Georgie Zamantakis

June 11, 2015

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

Contributor Profile: WRHC Open Media Award Winner Timothy Sanchez

April 30, 2015

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

Contributor Profile: WRHC Visual Art Award Winner Marco Rodriguez

April 16, 2015

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

Contributor Profile: WRHC Open Media Award Winner Marissa Thompson

August 4, 2014

*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

Contributor Profile: WRHC Photography Award Winner Alaia Schwelger

July 21, 2014

*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

Contributor Profile: WRHC Poetry Award Winner Bonnie Wells

June 23, 2014

*This post is part of a series of blog posts highlighting award winning contributors and supporters of Scribendi. In her poem, Bonnie Wells describes the experience of fishing with a quiet intensity and persistent images. Readers are reminded of the inherent violence of natural processes. These images are complicated by the nostalgia of childhood memory. … Read More

Contributor Profile: WRHC Fiction Award Winner Kelsey Mammen

May 12, 2014

*This post is part of a series of blog posts highlighting award winning contributors in Scribendi’s 2014 issue. Kelsey Mammen is author of the WRHC award-winning fiction piece “Red Dancers”, a story that chronicles one man’s rehabilitation and redemption through his involvement in a mustang training program at a state penitentiary. Kelsey, who lives and … Read More

Contributor Profile: WRHC Visual Art Award Winner Aarya Engineer

April 22, 2014

*This post is part of a series of blog posts highlighting award winning contributors and supporters of Scribendi. Hello Scribendi enthusiasts, the time has come to meet this year’s Western Regional Honors Council (WRHC) award winner in the visual art category, Aarya Engineer. His piece Self-Portrait (I Like Turtles) was chosen by a panel of … Read More