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The following judges will
evaluate submissions to The Mountain Laurel and choose the first, second,
and third place winners for each category: Art: Doug Young is a full-time sculptor
who has invested his life in teaching others. A versatile artist, Young has
taught drawing, calligraphy, and sculpture in high schools and continuing
education programs. He has also taught classes in his studio to a variety of
age groups and skill levels. He has won awards for his work in pastel and
graphic design. Born in
Connersville, Indiana, Young studied under well-known South Carolina artists
Emery Bopp, Darell Koons and Carl Blair as well as internationally known
sculptor and restoration artist, Adrianus Van der staak. After moving to
Greenville, SC in 1992, he has continued sculpting. His works include a
life-size sculpture of ‘Shoeless’
Joe Jackson, which stands at Greenville’s West End, and Gethsemane a
commissioned work for North Greenville University in Tigerville, South
Carolina. A third life-size bronze, The
Patriot, was created for J.
L. Mann High School. Poetry: James E. Barcus is Professor of Romantic Poetry and
Victorian Literature at Baylor University, where he has taught since
____. After receiving his Ph.D.
from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Barcus taught at Houghton College
(N.Y.). His teaching and research interests include
Romantic poetry and prose, Victorian poetry and prose, literary criticism and
theory. Some of his publications include the following: ·
The Literary Correspondence of
Bernard Barton,
1966.
Fiction: Ray Blackston of Greenville, South Carolina,
worked as a buyer and a broker for eleven years before cashing in his modest
401k and leaving his corporate cubicle to write full time. He serves on the
missions committee of his church, has traveled to rural Ecuador on a summer
missions program, and coaches his seven-year-old nephew, Action Jackson, in
T-Ball. In addition, Blackston has found success as a writer of novels,
winning Inspirational Novel of the Year award (Dallas Morning News) in 2003 for Flabbergasted, his first novel, which was also a finalist for the
Christy award in 2004. Retail
orders poured in for Flabbergasted even
before it was officially released, and Blackston has continued a successful
writing career with two sequels as well as two new novels, Par for the Course and A Pagan’s Nightmare. He emphasizes the craft of rewriting,
noting that novel writing needs to be developed by studying “world-class
novelists and learning technique, then applying some of those techniques…” Literary Nonfiction - Linda Gilden is the author of Love Notes in Lunchboxes:
And Other Ideas to Color Your Child’s Day and Love Notes on His
Pillow: And Other Everyday Ways to Keep Your Love Alive. She
has written more than 300 articles for magazines such as Home Life and Focus on the Family and
has served as a contributing editor for Family
Life magazine. She is currently managing editor for The Encourager, a
magazine published by her church, and contributing editor to Prime Years magazine.
She is also an adjunct college professor, a speaker, and a faculty member for
the Glorieta Writing Conference. The following judges served
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