<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/judges-adamant-about-awarding-bc3-students-poem.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>11/01/2021 04:31:42 PM</pubDate><title>Judges “adamant” about awarding BC3 student’s poem</title><subtitle>English major places behind only published authors in writers association competition</subtitle><description>(Butler, PA) A poem written by a 19-year-old English major and student editor of Butler County Community College’s annual art and literary magazine placed behind the works of only two published authors in the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia’s open-mic competition this fall.</description><author/><image-caption>A poem written by Lydia Seaton, 19, of Emlenton, an English major at Butler County Community College, placed behind the works of only two published authors in the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia’s open-mic competition this fall. Seaton is the first BC3 student to be recognized by the writers association. She is shown Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township.</image-caption><tags><tag>Year in Review 2021</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2021/seaton-lydia.jpg" alt="BC3 student success"/></image></item>