Doxa Awards Winners 2012

Congratulations to our 2012 Doxa Awards winners!

Poetry: William Hurst

Fiction: Laura Graves

Essay: Jessica Michaels

Art: Travis Chandler

You may view the winning pieces by clicking on the names above.

Doxa 3 Published

Doxa 3 was published in 2012.  It features fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and artwork by undergraduate students. From the introduction:

This issue, as its cover illustrates, contrasts our delicate and fragile glory, the weak splendor of human artists, with the eternal, sustaining, and matchless glory of our Redeemer. As flowers thrill us with their beauty, they warn us by their brevity.

Paperback copies of Doxa are available for $10. Please contact Dr. Bob Milliken at rcmilliken@nechristian.edu or 402-935-9400.

May 30th Deadline for issue 3

We welcome your submissions. If you’re an undergraduate, and have been considering sending us your work, there’s no time like the present!

The Doxa Awards

Doxa awards a $100 prize to the top entry, as judged by the editors, in each category:  fiction, poetry, essays, artwork.

All submissions for each issue are automatically considered for this award.

We’ll be announcing the winners by July 31.

“The Symmetry Stands Alone” by Brian Patterson

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Marvin Oran Mansfield had crossed a line.

This time it seemed as though there was no turning back. He ran back upstairs and into his bedroom while tears of regret began to stream down his face. His adrenaline had his heart pumping at an unbelievable rate and his hands were beginning to shake.

You see, Marvin’s love for symmetry had become such an obsession that he felt an overwhelming desire to purposely go against it, just to see what would happen. The problem was, he wasn’t sure about the best way to do it. He had various ideas such as wearing two different shoes or even cutting one side of his hair to look different than the other side. Nothing seemed effective enough. He thought and thought and as ideas came and went he wondered if he was actually just beginning to lose his nerve.

Essays by Caitlin Greer

X-mas in Xigatse

For three months I had prepared for Christmas. We spent hours collecting an assortment of Christmas cards, some with serene scenes of the Nativity, and some with little boys, full of the Christmas spirit, playing jovially on a snow-blanketed mountainside.

“Mad Lies” by Matt Doubet

Conspiracy theories tend to be fantastic stories whose explanations of reality range from laughable to just plain ludicrous. Yet something about them draws us to them and makes us want to believe them.