17 Community College Students Featured in Literary Anthology
Jackson, MS -- Poetry, short story and essay submissions from 17 community
college students will be featured in the 2006 edition of Nota Bene,
the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society literary anthology.
Nota
Bene was first published in 1994 to showcase excellent writing among
two-year college students. More than 1,600 entries are received each year,
with the works of more than 275 students featured since the founding.
Dean
Stewart, a student at Santa Monica College in California, received the
$1,000 Citation Scholarship for having the best overall submission. Reynolds
Scholarships of $500 each will be presented to Rebecca Biscoglia, a student
at Oxford College of Emory University, Georgia, L. Elizabeth Belyeu, a
student at Southern Union State Community College in Alabama, Paul Love,
Jr., a student at Volunteer State Community College in Tennessee, and Melissa
Anne Potter, a student at New Hampshire Community Technical College, Claremont
Campus, for submitting outstanding manuscripts.
The following
submissions were selected for publication in Nota Bene:
Pain,
a short story by Dean Stewart, Santa Monica College, California
Transformation
and Ever After, poems by Rebecca Biscoglia, Oxford College of Emory
University, Georgia
Paternity Test, a short story
by L. Elizabeth Belyeu, Southern Union State Community College, Alabama
If God Wills: A Brief Examination of Osama bin Laden's Effect
on Militant Islam, an essay by Paul Love, Jr., Volunteer State Community
College, Tennessee
What I Learned from You I Could Have Learned
from Coyotes, a poem, and Remembering, an essay, by
Melissa Anne Potter, New Hampshire Community Technical College, Claremont
Campus
Selfish, a short story by Scarlett Baker, Brazosport
College, Texas
Kick Harder, a short story by Darla Bennett,
Connors State College, Oklahoma
Cecil County, Maryland,
a poem by Gary "Beau" Bowen, writing under the pen name M. Kei, Cecil Community
College, Maryland
An untitled poem by Naomi Brown, St. Phillips
Community College, Texas
Remembering October, a short
story by Shawnna Burt, Cape Cod Community College, Massachusetts
The
Revolving Door, an essay by Kelly Gonsalves, Heald College, Rancho
Cordova Campus, California
Flower Child, a poem by
Cynthia Herrera, Tomball College, Texas
Misako and the
Dragons, a short story by Jan M.G. Nerenberg, Clatsop Community College,
Oregon
Drunk in the Garden, a poem by Kathleen Settels,
Irvine Valley College, California
Diplomats and Dictators,
a short story, and poems Daddy and Living Room, by Kevin
Sparrow, Kishwaukee Community College, Illinois
The Color
of Snow, a short story by Phuong Trinh, Highline Community College,
Washington
Between a Certain Schism, a short story
by Samer Youssef, Lenoir Community College, North Carolina
Phi
Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, is
the oldest and largest honor society in American higher education with
1,200 chapters on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the
United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the British Virgin
Islands and U.S. territorial possessions. More than two million students
have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000
students inducted annually.
