{"id":10473,"date":"2020-03-09T13:52:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T17:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:21:23","slug":"active-member-of-transylvania-literary-community-wins-judy-gaines-young-student-writing-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2020\/03\/active-member-of-transylvania-literary-community-wins-judy-gaines-young-student-writing-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Active member of Transylvania literary community wins Judy Gaines Young Student Writing Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tiuse-810x581.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10474\" width=\"485\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/tiuse-810x581.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/tiuse-350x251.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/tiuse-730x523.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/tiuse-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/tiuse-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/tiuse.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Insley, a senior writing, rhetoric, and communication major at Transylvania University, has received the school&#8217;s 2020 Judy Gaines Young Student Writing Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a free campus event next week, Insley will give a reading, as will acclaimed poet Frank X Walker, winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2020\/02\/acclaimed-poet-frank-x-walker-receives-transylvanias-2020-judy-gaines-young-book-award\/\">this year&#8217;s Judy Gaines Young Book Award<\/a> for his collection of poems \u201cLast Will, Last Testament.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s an excellent writer all around,&#8221; said Maurice Manning, a Transylvania professor and Pulitzer Prize nominated poet who has taught Insley in writing and literature classes. &#8220;She is also a careful reader and always responds with insight to the work of her peers. 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So it was wild to see that my writing was no longer just for me but it had impacted other people to the extent that someone else nominated me for this.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public is invited to join the Transylvania community  for readings from their own works by her and Walker, a former Kentucky poet laureate and co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Update \u2013 March 12, 2020: The presentation ceremony has been canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very pleased we have the chance to recognize Taylor&#8217;s talent and good spirit,&#8221; Manning said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Taylor, another of her professors and a former Kentucky poet laureate, said the English minor is bright and writes very well. &#8220;She, as they say, is &#8216;the right stuff.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Insley, a senior writing, rhetoric, and communication major at Transylvania, has received the 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