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April 5, 2011

Call for Entries: House Organ Writing Contest

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By: Wayne Wood

For the 27th year, the July House Organ will be the Summer Reading Issue, filled with the winners of  the House Organ Writing Contest—poems, short stories and nonfiction pieces contributed by Vanderbilt staff, faculty and students.

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