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A Gov and Beyond:
The First-Year Writing Journal at APSU

Courses in the First-Year Writing sequence at Austin Peay provide students with the skills and opportunity to analyze the rhetoric around them and to join the conversations occurring in the academic, professional, and public communities of which they are members. 

Each Spring, the First-Year Writing Program hosts the First-Year Writing Competition. Students who were enrolled in ENGL 1005, ENGL 1010, and/or ENGL 1020 during the current academic year, can submit work completed for these courses to be reviewed by a panel of faculty judges. Winners of the competition are awarded a cash prize and have their work published in A Gov and Beyond: The First-Year Writing Journal at APSU.

A Gov and Beyond celebrates the impressive work our students complete and reflects the interests and concerns that spur student engagement each academic year. Additionally, the journal serves as a resource that future students can refer to as they begin their writing journey.

If you would like to see your writing featured in A Gov and Beyond, 2024-2025 Edition, submit your paper to the First-Year Writing Competition by March 28, 2025, using the following form.

First-Year Writing Competition Submission Form

First-Year Writing Competition Winners, 2023-2024

A Gov and Beyond Flipbooks

To view the journal in its entirety, check out our annual flipbook!

A Gov and Beyond, 2023-2024

Blue circles radiating outwards with A Gov and Beyond written in the corner

Past Essay Archive

Archived essays do not contain pictures.

 

Contact Us

Keely Mohon-Doyle
Director of First-Year Writing
mohondoylek@apsu.edu