Creativity Rewarded

from Spring 2023 Arete Honors magazine

by Middle Tennessee State University

Scientia Et Humanitas Staff

Six earn Expression Awards for Collage student work

With the addition of an award for best song lyric in the fall, the Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression staff selected six students as recipients of the fall 2022 Creative Expression Awards for their top-ranked submissions to Collage

The staff selected by secret ballot the literary work of Cassie Sistoso and Jai Wilson for Martha Hixon Creative Expression Awards and the visual work of Jillian DeGrie and Becky Carter for Lon Nuell Creative Expression Awards. In addition to these traditional categories, Sierra Hart and Sofia Lynch were honored for video and song lyrics, respectively.

Each semester the Collage staff participates in a blind grading process to select approximately 60 pieces for publication from around 350 submissions. The University Honors College awards $75 prizes to top-rated prose, poetry, art, and photography, named in honor of Hixon, an English professor who is a longtime supporter of Collage and the Honors College, and in memory of Nuell, a much-respected art professor at MTSU. Awards may also be given for outstanding video, audio, and song lyrics if sufficient submissions are received.