Morgan County African American Museum

The Morgan County African American Museum and its partners announce the winners of the Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing for the 2020-2021 academic year. Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief at University of Pennsylvania Press, has made his selections. Levi Hubbard, a Junior at Morgan County High School, wins top prize. He is followed by Evelyn McCanless, Sameeha Sultana, and Taylor Frederick. Other finalists include Mitchell Anderson, Sabrina Booker, and Isabel Vickers. Congratulations to the winners and to all of our finalists!

Remember, tomorrow afternoon we announce the winners of the 2021 Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing. Stay tuned....

Today is the final day to enter the 2021 Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing. To all Morgan County high school students, please get submissions in by midnight tonight. Complete details and submission guidelines are on our website!

The submission window for the 2nd Annual Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing is open just a few more days. Entries are accepted through March 1. High school students who live in Morgan County, Georgia, or who attend MCHS are eligible. Good luck!

The Raymond Andrews Prize is a writing competition for high school students in your community. If you know of a student who should enter the contest please make him or her aware that the entry window is open today!

Dates for the 2021 Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing were announced last week. Posters are up around Madison. Please share with high school students in Morgan County, Georgia. Entry window is February 1, 2021 - March 1, 2021. Winners announced in April 2021.

To end our series of video interviews with the top finishers of the Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing we offer a bonus feature a talk with novelist Anthony Grooms. Grooms is the author of Trouble No More, Bombingham, and most recently, The Vain Conversation. He teaches writing at Kennesaw State University and is a two-time winner of the Lillian Smith Prize for Fiction. He has served as a judge for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and we are very ...lucky that he agreed to serve as the guest judge for the inaugural Raymond Andrews Prize. Grooms was also a close friend of Raymond Andrews. In this interview he shares memories of first meeting Andrews, their long friendship, the advice Andrews shared with him, his own advice to young writers, and his thoughts on some of the entries in the 2020 competition. We are honored by his participation. Each interview is conducted by Jesse Freeman, Program Coordinator for the Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing, which is an outreach of the Morgan County African American Museum.

Quintavious Proby is the winner of the inaugural Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing. We talk about his poignant and timely story, The Other Side of the Leaf in this interview. It covers a sensitive topic, but one we feel is worthy of discussion, especially as Proby has approached it. We are understandably impressed with his work. Congratulations, Quintavious! Each interview is conducted my Jesse Freeman, Program Coordinator for the Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing, which is an outreach of the Morgan County African American Museum.

Here’s our talk with Melanie Howard, runner-up for the inaugural Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing. Melanie is a senior at Morgan County High School. We discuss her story, Potato Soup, which led us to FDR and the CCC, Covid-19 protocols, and most importantly, hope. Each interview is conducted my Jesse Freeman, Program Coordinator for the Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing, which is an outreach of the Morgan County African American Museum.

Here's the second of our interviews with the top finishers in the 2020 Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing. MJ Faulkner talks about her love for theater and books, affinities she shares with the central character of her story, "The Secret." Each student is in conversation with Jesse Freeman, Program Coordinator of the Raymond Andrews Prize.

This week we will be sharing interviews with the top finishers in the 2020 Raymond Andrews Prize for Creative Writing. Today Dylan Lange introduces us to his sci-fi world of enormous insects and resilient humans......and of course the weirdest senior year ever. Congratulations Dylan! Each student is in conversation with Jesse Freeman, Program Coordinator of the Raymond Andrews Prize.

Today we celebrate Juneteenth by taking time to look back and learn from our history and honor the countless contributions of African Americans to country.