• Charles S. Johnson edited Ebony and Topaz.

• Countee Cullen edited Caroling Dusk.

• Bruce Nugent’s first published poem, "Shadows," was rescued from the trash by Langston Hughes and sent to Opportunity magazine. "Shadows" was later reprinted in Countee Cullen’s Caroling Dusk.

• Alain Locke edited Four Negro Poets. Jean Toomer and Langston Hughes are included.

• Alain Locke and T. Montgomery Gregory published Plays of Negro Life.

• Georgia Douglas Johnson produced her drama, “Blue Blood,” in New York.

• Gwendolyn Bennett published her only two short stories. “Wedding Day” appeared in Fire!! and “Tokens” appeared in Ebony and Topaz.

• Lewis Alexander was honorary editor of the Carolina Magazine. This magazine was the official literary publication of the students of the University of North Carolina.

• The Third Annual Opportunity Contest added the Pictorial Awards and the Special Buckner Awards. The Buckner Awards were for conspicuous promise. Winners affiliated with Washington, DC are as follows:

  Short Story

  3^rd prize shared: John P. Davis

  Poetry

  1^st prize: Sterling A. Brown for "When De Saints Go Ma’chin’ Home"

  Essays

  3^rd prize: shared: Frank Horne for "Concerning White People" and Sterling A. Brown for "The Plight of Certain Intellectuals"

  Personal Experience Sketch

  3^rd prize shared: Frank Horne for "I Am Initiated Into the Negro Race"

  Musical Composition

  2^nd prize for arrangement of Negro Spirituals and Folk Songs: Ernest E. Peace for "Nobody Knows De Trouble I’ve Seen"

  Plays

  1^st prize: Georgia Douglas Johnson for "Plumes"

  Special Buckner Award

  4^th prize: Frank Horne for an essay, "Concerning White People"

  5^th prize: Sterling A. Brown for an essay, "The Plight of Certain Intellectuals"

• Opportunity announced the suspension of its Literary Prize Contest.

• The Crisis winners that were affiliated with Washington, DC are as follows:

Prizes in Literary Art and Expression

1^st prize: Marita O. Bonner for "The Purple Flower", a fantasy; "Exit", a play; "Drab Rambles", a short story; and "The Young Blood Hungers", an essay.

2^nd prize: Brenda Ray Moryck for three short stories: "Old Days and New", "Days", and "Her Little Brother."

Prizes for Covers

4^th prize: Allan R. Freelon for A Jungle Nymph.