Contest Winners
Searching the Darkness for the Light
“I have kissed the darkness hello. And as I move, I search through that darkness for the most brilliant light.”
Dr. Arthenia Jackson Bates Millican
We asked writers to answer those words honestly. What came back to us was extraordinary. Entries arrived from Sumter County and beyond, from middle schoolers and high schoolers and adults, each one carrying something the writer had to be brave enough to look at directly.
Below are the winners of the “Searching the Darkness for the Light” Contest. Read their work. Then, if you’re able, read it again. These are stories worth sitting with. Because every story matters.
1st Prize – High School
"Happiness and Hardships" by Ahmed Ahmed ...
HONORABLE MENTIONS
ADULT POETRY
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“Nyctophobia” – JORDYN WILLIAMS
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“Behind the Darkness” – NANDIMILAN WADLEY
HIGH SCHOOL POETRY
- “Hands That Drag and Claw and Lift” – BRIANNA WESSEL
- “The Darkness that Consumes” – CEANNA RELLE