My experience at the writing awards Ceremony

On Wednesday, September 30th I went to the writing awards ceremony at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, in the CASL building, room 1030. When I arrived at the writing awards ceremony there was fresh apple cider in cups. It reminded me of fall. Next to the apple cider was string cheese, and big chocolate chip cookies. The auditorium was small with flip down seats, just like at the movies, but they had little flip down tables attached to them so the students could have a place to take notes. The podium was on the left hand side of the room with a moveable microphone attached. There were about a hundred people there.
The ceremony started at five o’clock, and lasted almost an hour. Professor Philip Potvin introduced the different writing categories: Fiction, Poetry, Research Writing, Creative Non- Fiction, First-Year Writing and Honors writing. Each student that was given an award for their writing piece was given an opportunity to read what they had written. Some students had other people read for them, while others read their own work. Some students just accepted their awards, and others did not even show up.
Carol J. Garfield wrote a poem called “Tornado Township,” that came in at second place under the Poetry Category. He held up his paper to show everyone how his words were formatted like a tornado on the page. I thought that was creative.
Holly Carlisle wrote a paper called “Point of No Return,” that came in third place under the Fiction category. Her story was about a person who was in an abusive relationship, and how she rearranged the apartment to cover up the evidence of the abuse. Then she went on to explain the experience of being in a metal ward of the hospital.
Stephanie Hymes’ writing piece was called “Socially Challenged.” It was awarded second place in the creative Non-Fiction category. I really liked how descriptive she was in her experience of being a home schooled child. She remembers how everyone in her family acted towards her mom, and her decision to home school. She describes her grandma sitting in the chair at the table with pursed lips, and on a rampage about the kids being socially challenged later on in life. She explains all the sounds, smells and the emotional feelings that she had felt on that very day. At the end of her story she tells how her mom went against what everyone else said, and had faith in her own abilities to raise her children. I think more people need to have the same type of confidence despite what everybody else thinks.
It was an interesting experience to see the different view points on writing. Every writer had their own style of writing some used big and fancy words while others had very descriptive words. Each writer was valued for how ever long or short their writing piece turned out to be. The way the words were written had a huge impact on how people could visualize, and comprehend each piece.