Our Voices Writing Contest

El Camino College's Humanities Division presents its annual essay-writing contest, entitled Our Voices. The contest is open to students of English A, B, 53A or B, or English AX.

Listed below are this 2009's 10 prize-winning essays. Click on a title to read the corresponding essay (this should open a PDF file in your browser's Acrobat reader, so hang tight if it takes a moment to load). Do note that we are currently missing A New Woman Created. With any luck this will be rectified in the future.

• "Words of Wisdom: Abrams Edition" by David Abrams Instructor: Annick
• "One More to Saint Rose" by Lannie-Jolaine Rivas Lafreniere Instructor: Hacker
• "A New Woman Created" by Luis Palacios Instructor: Hendricks
• "My Little Brother" by Leonidas Portillo Instructor: Hendricks
• "If You Don't Help Yourself" by Cinthya Rodriguez Instructor: Armao
• "Daylight Bus to School" by Rodney Smith Instructor: Annick
• "Thunderous Words" by Christan Starling Instructor: Annick
• "Peace Within" by Nicole Thompson Instructor: Annick
• "Paddling Upstream" by Christiana Trimper Instructor: Annick
• "My Grandmother's Kitchen" by Asana Yoshikawa Instructor: Cron

And here are the winners for 2008's contest.

• "Beauty" by Theresa Avila Instructor: Mochidome
• "Bad Influences" by Davidson Ejimole Instructor: Ansite
• "Hoodville" by Leslie Grigsby Instructor: Hendricks
• "Changing the Ways" by Yesenia Macias Instructor: Annick
• "The Truth in False Advertising" by Erika Murphy Instructor: Anderson
• "Roots" by Chinatsu Nakanishi Instructor: Mochidome
• "The Greatest Barbecue Ever" by John Pearson Instructor: Blake
• "American Culture" by Yudeisy Ramos Instructor: Simon
• "Crossing the Line" by Cynthia Sabo Instructor: Hackner
• "Love Is Young" by Marcos Sanchez Instructor: Sharp

Congratulations to the winning essayists!