| The Marshall Writers' Guild is pleased to offer an annual grant to the Marshall High School student selected by the school for this honor. Lexie McDanel is the 2010 recipient. Read Poppzies and you'll understand why Lexie was the choice. The Guild would like to do more to encourage young writers in the community and is open to suggestions. Young writers are always welcome at Guild meetings.Flannery Crump was the 2009 grant recipient. Until the retirement of Mrs. Jackie Guthrey from the MHS English Department, the Guild sponsored, with her able assistance, a contest with prizes for student prose and poetry. As announced in The Marshall Democrat-News, 5/11/2006, Mrs. Guthrey last presented Guild awards at the 2006 Achievement Night for Excellence in Prose to Wayne Johnson (first), Gabriela Bennett (second) and Jordan Copas (third); and for Excellence in Poetry to Wayne Johnson (first), Meg Lawson (second) and Gretchen Roehrs (third).The guild is pleased to continue this grant. |