July 14, 2008

Damon Garners Writing Awards

 
SIOUX CITY, Iowa –Paula Damon, director of marketing and communications at Briar Cliff University, garnered two second place awards and one third-place award in the 2008 South Dakota Press Women Communications Contest.

Winning entries in the competition were selected from Damon’s weekly column, “My Story Your Story.” Judges evaluated her work in three categories: informational, general and humorous.  Taking Second Place in the “Informational” category were Damon’s entries entitled “Junk mail interrupts isolation, announces existence” and “Learning to play the piano presents a new brand of happiness.”  In the “General” category, her works “Side effects of membership to the club” and “On being backwards compatible - a love story” also earned Second Place. Damon received Third Place honors for her “Humorous” selections “Ravenous intruders wreak havoc, traumatize family” and “Super blower mulching vacuum avenges leaf rake."

Previously, Damon’s works placed first in communications contests for National Federation of Press Women and Iowa Press Women and second place in South Dakota Press Women Communications Contests.

A weekly columnist for the Vermillion Plain Talk, Damon holds a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and a master’s degree in English from The University of South Dakota.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 26 states and four countries.  Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care and compassion. For more information, please visit www.briarcliff.edu.