Foliate Oak and The Voice Win Awards

Arts & Entertainment Editor

   The Foliate Oak Online and The Voice received 11 awards from the Arkansas College Media Association at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro April 18.

Photo by Linna Jones

Award Winning - (front row, left to right) Kelly Freeman, Brooke Burger, Heather Raley, Destiney Higgins, Jeffery Trotter and Bonnie Crump; (back row, left to right) adviser Diane Payne, Bobby Middleton, Chris Bunting and Michael Thomas hold the seven awards won at the Arkansas College Media Association awards ceremony. The Foliate Oak Online received second place for Magazine General Excellence for the "Best of The Foliate Oak 2007."

 
   The Foliate Oak Online received seven awards. They received second place for Magazine General Excellence for the "Best of Foliate Oak 2007." They also received the following awards from works the current issue, "Best of Foliate Oak 2008:"

• First Place in Non-fiction Writing - C. L. Bledsoe's "Yellow Submarine"
• First Place in Fiction Writing - Janet Yung's "Moved by the Spirit"
• Second Place in Poetry - Lawrence Keel's "When Claire Died"
• Second Place in Non-fiction Writing - Joe Buckner's "Knowing"
• Third Place in Fiction Writing - Renate Krakauer's "The Day After"
• Third place in Non-fiction Writing - Tom Mahony's "Jury Duty"
  

   “I am glad we did as well as we did,” senior Heather Raley said. “A lot of people don’t know how much work goes into publishing a literary magazine.”

Photo by Danielle Kloap

Awards - Douglas Boultinghouse and Linna Jones hold two of the four awards won at ACMA. Boultinghouse received honorable mention for review writing.

   The Voice won four awards and received second place for Best Web Edition. The editors for The Voice comprise Brooke Burger, Editor-in-Chief; Danielle Kloap, Managing Editor; Susan Harmon, Commentary Editor; Linna Jones, Arts & Entertainment Editor; and Amber Rowe, Around Campus Editor.

   Other staff members of The Voice who won awards include:

• Douglas Boultinghouse received honorable mention for Review Writing.
• Kevin Sims received third place for sports Features Writing.
• Latoya Shelton received honorable mention for Feature Photo.
  

   ACMA handed out awards for different areas involving yearbook, newspaper, television and magazines. Eleven schools attended awards ceremony including John Brown University, South Arkansas University, Arkansas Tech University, University of Central Arkansas, University of Arkansas, Arkansas State University, Central Baptist College, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Harding University and Ouachita Baptist University.

The Foliate Oak Online contributed to this article.

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