I hope you check it out – there is a lot of good student writing. As faculty editor and HARTS Council member, Elissa Minor Rust noted, “ My students worked really hard on this during a difficult time and I am so proud of their work. Typically a print journal, this year’s issue was published digitally due to the virus. At the end of spring term, Rock Creek’s literary journal, Bellwether Review, was published.Winner for Composition: Brendon Atkinson for “The Politics of Le Guin: Politics and Religion” (Short listed: Anh Nguyen, Gracia Elena Durón Rodríguez”.Winner for Creative Writing: Alex De La Cruz for “Salsa” (Short listed: Sadie Bradford, Emily Veenstra, Ethan Slayton, Hana Elogbi-Sabr)Winner for Film/Literature: Kanani Cortez for “Chubby Childhood Icons” ( Shortlisted: Hailey Mathias, Damon Wise, Taylor Nichols).We are happy to share the names of this year’s winners and runners-up:

Winners of the ASPCC Writing awards: For the past two years, ASPCC Sylvania has sponsored annual student writing awards in collaboration with the English department.Please enjoy the accompanying artwork by the very talented PCC Cascade English faculty, Gail Jedy, whose “Pandemic Pictorials” were featured on the HARTS website in the late spring. As we settle into the summer, we wanted to share some highlights from the end of spring term that we didn’t have time to share in earlier newsletters, and to keep you apprised of wonderful humanities and arts readings and offerings from the Portland area and beyond. We hope that you and your loved ones are well. “A people also perish when they fail to keep alive the values that make them human, the wellsprings of their sanity.” -Ben Okri Wellspring: Humanities and Arts During Covid-19, Summer Issue I Phone numbers, email addresses, and other information may have changed. This content was published: August 11, 2020.

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