Courtesy of Margie Gay
The House on Atkins Avenue
This fall, for the inaugural “All Roads Lead to Home” Young Writers Contest, the editorial team at Country Roads invited emerging writers from around the region to share their experiences, perspectives, and investigations on “home.”
We are thrilled to announce Emily Price, a recent graduate of Louisiana State University, as our first-place winner for her personal essay “In the House on Atkins Avenue.” We felt that Emily's heartfelt, narrative approach to close-to-home storytelling struck a nerve—powerfully evoking the ways place and lineage embed themselves into our identities. Her story offers a valuable and raw portrait of Louisiana womanhood, generation after generation, and we are proud to include it in Country Roads.
You can read Emily's essay HERE and in print in our December 2019 "Hearth and Home" issue.
Read the work of our three semi-finalists online at the links below:
Breanna Smith's reflections on her childhood home of St. Gabriel: "A Place for Exiles"
Mary Hawkins's exploration of language in St. Landry Parish: "Ici on parle français"
Sydney Cheatham's personal essay: "Finding My Home in the South"
