Christian Writing Contest 2010

To contact any of these authors for any reason you may request their contact information through the contest administrators at director@athanatosministries.org. All of them have indicated that they are available for interview. Anthony Horvath, the executive director of Athanatos Christian Ministries, which is the host of the contest, is also available for interviews.

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The 2010 ACM  John Donne Award Goes to Sarah Andersen Flagstaff, AZ 2nd Place (Category: Poetry) Bio: Sarah Andersen grew up in Phoenix, Arizona until she was 19 when she moved to Texas for four years to participate in an internship with a ministry. She now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona where she is working on [...]

Tags: Hell, holiness, name, tolerance
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The 2010 ACM George Herbert Goes to Nancy Hance Monroe, NC 3rd Place (Category: Poetry) Bio: From a very early age, Nancy had a connection with music. Standing on tiptoe to reach Grandma’s old piano keyboard, she picked out the melody to “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, her favorite tune. As a young girl, Nancy learned [...]

Tags: blood of the lamb, Nancy Hance, Robe of Righteousness
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The 2010 ACM T. S. Eliot Award Goes to Nancy Hance Monroe, NC 1st Place (Category: Poetry) Bio: From a very early age, Nancy had a connection with music. Standing on tiptoe to reach Grandma’s old piano keyboard, she picked out the melody to “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, her favorite tune. As a young girl, [...]

Tags: King's Garden, myrrh, Nancy Hance, Ruth, Solomon
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The 2010 Sojourner Leatherwork Flannery O’Connor Award Goes to Myra Stull St. Louis, MO Third Place (Category: High School) Bio: Myra Stull was born and raised in St. Louis, and has loved to write for as long as she can remember. Inspired by classics such as Les Miserables and short stories ranging from those by [...]

Tags: adoption, hope, The Cabin
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The Athanatos Christian Ministries 2010 William Blake Award goes to Cody Milner Reydon, OK Third Place (category:  High School) Bio: Cody Milner was born and raised in Western Oklahoma. He has been homeschooled for nine years, and recently graduated from Junior High. Cody has enjoyed writing since age 10. A few years later, he was [...]

Tags: Bjørn, Christians, matthias, norse, Thor, Vikings
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The Athanatos Christian Ministries 2010 John Milton Award goes to Rebecca Chance Warner Robbins, GA Third Place (Category:  High School) Bio: Rebecca Chance was homeschooled from first grade until high school, when she entered Wynfield Christian Academy. She is graduating this year as Valedictorian of her class. She loves acting and writing and someday hopes [...]

Tags: church, church growth, demon, dissenters, Fellowship, heresy, Rebecca Chance, truth
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Confident Christianity is proud to present the 2010 Dorothy Sayer’s Award to Caroline Carmichael Chelsea, Alabama Second Place (category: High School) Bio: Caroline Carmichael is fifteen years old and lives in Chelsea, Alabama with her family. She is one of four sisters and loves music and writing. She fell in love with writing when she [...]

Tags: Belleau Wood, Caroline Carmichael, Christian love, December 25 1918, Garth Brook, German, Silent Night, war, World War 1
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The Athanatos Christian Ministries 2010 JRR Tolkien Award goes to Jennifer van den Bogerd Fenwick, ON, Canada First Place (Category: High School) Bio: Canadian home-educated student, Jennifer van den Bogerd, envisions a writing career in her future. Only seventeen, she’s been published in poetry and essay anthologies, had an article published in a national equestrian [...]

Tags: christian, Ford Focus, freedom, Paris, raindrops, rebellion, redemption, temptation, Toronto
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The 2010 Anonymously Sponsored George Macdonald Award Goes to: Katherine Thompson The Plains, OH Third Place (category:  19 and up) Bio: Katherine Thompson is a punster who always wins family poetry contests. Writing is however, an endeavor that can only be pursued in the corners of her life. She has strong opinions about humor and [...]

Tags: Climate Change, environment, evolution, global warming, gravity, Great President, Human Insufficiency, moon, redemption, Salvation, scientism, Texas
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