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Seven Hiram College students placed in the Echo Student Literary Competition for their work across the categories of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

The ePoster and Pitch is an assignment designed to get students engaged with public presentation skills for their first Sugar Day, to help them clarify the aims and importance of their Signature Assignment project, and to generate a sense of shared academic purpose in the Urgent Questions Seminars. 1-2 presenters from each Urgent Questions Seminar (who were nominated by their class) participated in the public ePoster and Pitch Competition. The top three presenters were recognized and awarded a cash prize. Winners were decided based on the combined scores of our panel of judges and votes from the audience.

Hiram College is proud to announce the winners of the prestigious Vachel Lindsay Poetry Contest, as judged by Chandra Feldman, professor of creative writing at Oberlin College and Conservatory. The annual contest recognizes exceptional poetry by emerging writers, and this year's winners have demonstrated remarkable creativity and storytelling prowess.

Hiram College is proud to announce the winners of the prestigious Barbara Thompson Award in Short Fiction, as judged by Alysandra Dutton, Class of 2015. The annual contest recognizes exceptional short fiction by emerging writers, and this year's winners have demonstrated remarkable creativity and storytelling prowess.

Hiram College recently announced the winners of the annual Lindsay-Crane Creative Nonfiction Contest, judged by Athena Dixon! Athena Dixon is the author of the essay collections The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Split/Lip Press 2020) and The Loneliness Files (Tin House 2023). Her poetry chapbook, No God in This Room, was the 2018 Winner of the Argus House Press Intersectional Midwest Chapbook Contest. Athena's craft work appears in Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Books 2022) and her poetry is included in the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books 2018).

The Burton D. Morgan Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship at Hiram College annually hosts a series of idea competitions that give students the opportunity to pitch their best ideas. Each fall, the College hosts ideablitz!, an idea generation and development event in which contestants develop an enterprise idea through the creation of a written concept statement. During the spring semester, students examine the feasibility of their concept through the ideabuild! competition.

Recently seven integrative exercise students attended the Midwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine's (MWACSM) 49th annual meeting in Indianapolis with assistant professor of integrative exercise science, Dr. Mallory Kobak, and integrative exercise science program director, Dr. Michael Rebold. Along with listening to presentations, observing student research, and attending various networking events, the students were able to participate in the main event, the quiz bowl, which is a jeopardy-style competition. Three students, William Muirhead, Logan Bailey, and Regina Dubeansky were selected to represent the College and competed against 13 other schools including -Youngstown State University, Ohio University, University of Cincinnati, Bowling Green State University, to name a few.

Hiram does it again! For the third year in a row, Hiram College's integrative exercise science students have won the Midwest American College of Sports Medicine (MWACSM) Quiz Bowl competition. Hiram is the first school to ever accomplish this at the Midwest regional level of the competition. Once again, Hiram College will move on to the next round of competition at the National American College of Sports Medicine Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in May.

Three students are recognized in ECHO Student Literary Regional Competition.

The 2020 Hiram College Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing & Literature has declared its Creative Nonfiction Contest winners. Written pieces were judged by Jake Maynard, a Hiram alum and accomplished writer in rural Pennsylvania. This contest was open to all Hiram College students, and all submitted work was original and unpublished. The winners received a monetary award along with recognition of their success. The winners are: First Place: "Drowning Episodes" by Amir Riddle Second Place: "Transparency" by Jordyn Parks Third Place: "Mr. Arbery" by Grace Lutat Honorable Mention: "Tulips" by Kritika Bhau