The winners of the 2025-26 special 45th anniversary edition of the Crowder Quill Crowder Quill literary and art magazine of Crowder College have been announced.

For this year’s contest, 919 entries were received. A complete list of winners, their awards, and schools/hometowns will be published by the end of April. The Crowder Quill publication will be mailed to winning entrants in mid-May, available online, and at Crowder College campuses and in the community. 

Updates will be provided on Facebook and Instagram as Digital Media Marketing students practice social media content.

All published entrants receive a certificate for gold, silver, bronze or honorable mention. $500 scholarships are also being awarded to the high school gold winners for each category. The scholarships are funded by individual departments (art and digital marketing) in order to nurture the talent presented during the Quill contest. Winning students must enroll in one of the courses designated on the certificate to activate the scholarship. For more information, see CrowderQuill.com guidelines.

Begun in 1980, the Quill is published each spring; the contest deadline is Feb. 1 each year, and divisions are high school, Crowder, and the community. The current categories are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, 2D art, 3D art, digital art, color photography, and black and white photography.

The magazine and contest are both free. The magazine is produced by students in the Applied Graphics and Media Campaigns course.

For more information, contact: Latonia Bailey, Quill adviser, LatoniaBailey@crowder.edu, Crowder College, Neosho, Mo.