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³ÉÈ˶¶ÒôÆƽâ°æ will host its 47^th annual Writing Awards Night at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 11 in the Waldron Campus Center’s Yehl Ballroom, 124 W. Seventh St. The event is free and open to the public. 

Every year, ³ÉÈ˶¶ÒôÆƽâ°æ celebrates the annual Writing Awards Program when students from all three colleges, with majors in mechanical engineering, occupational therapy, history, English, psychology, physician assistant, and others, are recognized for their accomplishments in research writing, journalism, and poetry. We also recognize winners of our national high school poetry contest. 

Lori Jakiela will be this year’s distinguished guest author. She is the author of the book Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe, which received the Saroyan Prize for International Literature from Stanford University, was a finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Firecracker Award and the Housatonic Book Award, and was named one of 20 Not-To-Miss Nonfiction Books by the Huffington Post.  

Totem, ³ÉÈ˶¶ÒôÆƽâ°æ’s student-produced literary arts magazine, will make its debut at the awards program. Totem’s 2023 edition was recognized with the First Place with Special Merit award from the American Scholastic Press Association earlier this year. 

In addition to the awards program, Jakiela will host an afternoon seminar, "Brains for Robots: Why (Human) Writers Matter Now More Than Ever," at 3 p.m., Thursday, April 11 in the Palumbo Academic Center’s Third Floor Atrium, 824 Peach St.