The Horror Haiku Contest for undergraduates, co-sponsored by the Emory Integrity Project and the Robert W. Woodruff Library, was held on Halloween at both the Farmer’s Market and the Library. We are excited to announce – and publish – the winning entries of the nearly 100 that were submitted.
The contest was inspired by the Emory Integrity Project’s Common Reading text for the 2017-2018 academic year — Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, published 200 years ago this academic year. Entries that dealt in some way with Halloween, spooky subjects or the advent of Fall were also accepted.
First Place winner — Anisha Verma
Why do we think that
Frankenstein is the monster?
Illiterate fools!
Second Place winner – Camila Vizcarra
He didn’t deserve
The hate or fear in their eyes.
We deserved his wrath.
Third Place winner — Rizky Etika
Oh Mary Shelley
What horrors lay in your mind?
Barely twenty-one.
We also had four runners-up.
Runner-up – Logan Makinson
Sweetgum leaves fall down,
All that is green turns brown now
Breath of autumn sighs.
Runner-up – Nandar Soe
It rattles rattles
Then it stopped, a click, “hello”
It said, and I screamed.
Runner-up — Emmanuel Wooten
My Reflection [Title]
Everything is wrong
Visage – contorted, mangled –
All except its smile
Runner-up – Anonymous
Inside a body
Designed and made by a man
Not man or monster.
Thank you all for participating!
Congratulations Camila!
I had no idea that you won.
Well done!