2014 Laws of Life Winners

Congratulations to the following Laws of Life Essay Contest winners!  Their essays have gone on to the district level.  Good Luck!

 

Hannah Guthrie- Senior 

Julia West- Junior

Grant Perkins-Sophomore

Sydney Shultz- Freshman, School Winner

2014 Young Georgia Authors Winners

Congratulations to the following Young Georgia Authors winners!

Their entries have moved on to the district competition.  Good luck!

12^th : Jason Purdy

12^th: Kaitlen Smith

 

11^th: Aubrey Piepmeir

11^th: Megan Wood

 

10^th: Casey Brazell

10^th: Lorrie Holcolmbe

 

9^th: Dalton Everhardt

 

Meet the Staff! (Well,...some of us...)



Melody, Zach, Miranda, Bekah, Tristan, Leah

Bekah - Editor-in-Chief

 

Zach - Sr. Copy Editor

 

Amanda - Sr. Prose Editor

Miranda - Sr. Poetry Editor

  

"a meeting of the minds"

Leah - Jr. Poetry Editor

Angelica - Jr. Copy Editor

 

Melody - General Staff

 

Jason - General Staff

Maria - General Staff

 



Koree - General Staff

Rakia - General Staff

Tristan - General Staff



photo bombing MsH, faculty advisor

Spring Contest Winners

Congratulations to:

 

Visual Art - Jennifer Burks

Short Story - Lynnsey Hollifield

Booth Western Art Museum Honors CHS Students!

 

BARTOW COUNTY SCHOOLS REPRESENTED WELL IN BOOTH WESTERN

ART MUSEUM’S WRITING THROUGH ART LITERARY COMPETITION

 Out of more than 500 entries, Bartow County has 19 students selected as finalists  

CARTERSVILLE, GA – Booth Western Art Museum is proud to announce winners of the 2014 Writing Through Art Literary Competition. The purpose of the contest is to encourage students to develop writing skills by using works of art from the Booth’s collection as inspiration.

 

The original contest, inspired and developed by the late Doc Stovall, focused solely on Cowboy Poetry.  This unique genre originated from the cattle drives of the late 1800s. In 2005, the contest became a feature of the Museum’s annual Southeastern Cowboy Gathering, with winners reciting their poems before an audience in the tradition of cowboys on the cattle trails. Currently, the expanded writing contest includes short stories, essays, narrative poetry, as well as cowboy poetry.

Bartow County Schools’ language arts teachers Dr. Kathleen McKenzie, Brittany Holland and Joy Leaphart assisted Booth Museum education staff by selecting works of art, writing lesson plans, and implementing the contest in their respective classrooms. The competition was open to students, grades 9 – 12, in Georgia public and private schools, as well as students, grades 9 – 12, who are home-schooled. More than 500 students from Bartow, Gordon and Cherokee counties participated in the competition.

Eight finalists were selected in each of the four divisions with cash prizes awarded to the first three places and teachers of finalists, while honorable mention certificates were awarded to the remaining finalists. 

Each finalist in the cowboy poetry division had the opportunity to recite his/her entry during Booth Western Art Museum’s 11th annual Southeastern Cowboy Gathering on Saturday, March 8, 2014. Here, the first place winner was presented the Doc Stovall Cowboy Poetry Award.

Winners of the Writing through Art Literary Competition from CHS and their respective categories are as follows:

Canaan Andrews, Honorable Mention – Short Story

Hannah Guthrie, Honorable Mention – Short Story

William Brazell, 1st place – Essay

Samantha Sanders, 1st place – Narrative Poetry

Veronica Adams, Honorable Mention – Narrative Poetry

Morgan Free, 1st place – Cowboy Poetry

Violetta Khirina, 2nd place – Cowboy Poetry

Lauren McKaig, Honorable Mention – Cowboy Poetry

Rachel Blankinship, Honorable Mention, Cowboy Poetry

About the Booth Western Art Museum

Booth Western Art Museum, an Affiliate to the Smithsonian Institution, is a 120,000 square foot museum located in Cartersville, Georgia, where guests are invited to See America’s Story by exploring the American West through contemporary Western artwork. The Museum also houses a Presidential Gallery, Civil War art gallery, and Sagebrush Ranch, an interactive children’s gallery. Open since August 2003, Booth Museum is the only museum of its kind in the Southeast and is the second largest art museum in the state of Georgia. To learn more about Booth Western Art Museum, visit www.boothmuseum.org.



 

L-R) Front row: Dr. Kathleen McKenzie, Veronica Adams, Morgan Free, Violetta Khirina, Canaan Andrews, and Samantha Sanders. Back row: William Brazell, Hannah Guthrie, Lauren McKaig, Rachel Blankinship, and Lisa Wheeler of Booth Western Art Museum. Not pictured: Ms. Brittney Holland.

Spring Contest

Don't be a fool...

 

submit your spring-themed work by April 1st!

Submit Now!

We are currently accepting submissions for the 2014 edition. 

 

Please submit your work
to Mrs. Holland in Room 2.110

or to any staff member.

We are NOW On-Line!

We are proud to announce

our new on-line, magazine format! 

Please click on the following hyperlink to view last year's magazine.

2013 Edition of VOICE Literary Magazine