Thursday, April 4,1985/THE BLUE BANNER/5
1985 writing competition winners
*
MVID
Staff photo by Sylvia Hawkins
mCBAEL MORPHY Staff photo by Leslie McCullough
KEITH FLYNN
Staff photo by Sylvia Hawkins
Senior David Levin is the
winner of The Francis P. Hulme Prize
in Playwriting with American Plan.
Set in a Florida hotel for senior
citizens, it is the tale of a teen
ager’s first kiss and his passion
for a buxom, yoong waitress with
braces.
Levin, who won The Thomas Wolfe
Prize in Fiction last year, wrote
much of the play in his mind as he
drove from his Hendersonville home
to UNCA and back. "At the time," he
says, "I was certain I wouldn't win
so I didn't worry about it." As a
result. Levin felt relaxed, and the
one-act, three-scene play "came out
very easily."
He hopes to earn a living as a
professional writer. And he plans to
buy a bottle of Dewar's Scotch and
put a downpayment on a new type
writer with the $100 prize.
Senior Michael Murphy.is the
winner of The Thomas Wolfe Prize in
Fiction for Uncle Hanej's Bull. The
author describes it as a story of
conflict between a young boy and his
uncle, and the resultant "rite of
passage of a teenage boy coming to
manhood."
The 18-page short story grew
from Murphy's impressions of people
he knew while growing up in Alabama.
Murphy siys he wanted to win
the competition, but didn't believe
he even "had the possiblity" until
fellow classmates urged him to check
the list of winners on the bulletin
board.
The author "writes on two lev
els." He enjoys his craft and, he
adds, "if you're doing it, you want
to do it for other people too."
Murphy plans to deposit his $100
winnings in his savings account.
Senior Keith Flynn is the win
ner of The Carl Sandburg Prize in
Poetry with his untitled collection
of five poems. "For me," says Fl3nmi,
"the poems represent a variety of
techniques and ideas." There is no
central theme.
Flynn says HoBecoalng *85 re
flects the pain of leaving home, of
trying to heal old wounds and fail
ing. Another work, Flqgerpainring,
is a poem about "creating something
out of a reservoir of pain." Flynn
considers it one of the best poems
he has ever written.
While Flynn believes it's
"impossible" to earn a living as a
poet, he's working hard on his first
full collection of poems. He plans
to use his $100 prize to pay part of
the $150 light bill he received the
day before he learned he had won the
competition.
Creative Calendar
Friday
• ONCA art faculty and
students will paint th^
CrudfiKloii in the
sanctuary of the First
Presbyterian Church on
Church Street from 7:30
to 10:30 p*m* >
*
Ton
• Poetry anl 0ance, a
Keith^:
'Bl'yoik," at' 'S
\Con-
Hi
^ ONCA artists Mel
ftiley aM Uxcy Noth
' hibition of whimsical
and intellectual
thought expressed
through objects ♦ the
exhibition will open in
the Second Floor Owen
Gallery.
Wednesday
• PostWave Music;
fim WatkSy a con
cert by UNCA's profes
sor/composer Wayne Kir
by, will begin at 8
p»m* in Lipinsky Audi
torium. (Donations)
♦ Herb Jackson, visit'**
ing artist in resi
dence, will jury the
Gallery at 10 a*m*
• Visiting artist in
residence Jackscxi
will give a discussion
and slide lecture cov^
ering the development
of his work at 2:30
p.m. in Owen 237♦
* Art of tliff Ownr-'
tury is the subject of
a panel discussion ln~
eluding visiting artist
Herb Jackson, Clwirlotte
Gallery owner Jerry
Melberg, and New York
painter Edgar Buonagur-
io* Ed Ritts, director
oi the Asheville Art
Museum will moderate
the discussion at 8
p*m# at the Asheville
Art Museum*
• SontMtcic and Ste
venson will perform a
One-Night-Staiid concert
blending boogie, fu
sion, and swing at 9
p.m. In the Hlghsmith
Center, Admission is
free to students and an
alcohol permit has been
approved•