Writing contest winners announced…
Posted May 29, 2009 at 5:29 am by Ian Byington
The winners are (left to right): Noe, Hannah, Brooke, Shelby, Will, Elsa, Tristan, and Christine! Not pictured, but still winners: Emily, Eddie, John, Elwyn, Weston, Michael & Coleton.
Last night at the Library, the winners of the 2009 Teen Writing Contest were announced. Stories & poems were read, prizes were awarded, and overall it was cool to have all that literary talent in one spot. This is the seventh year of the program, and with 61 entries this year, it looks like it’s still going strong.
The judges for this year were former SSIS language arts teacher Catherine Barnhart, ace FHHS junior & three-year Library volunteer Kara Hirschel, and me, while the program itself was pulled together by the Library’s new Children’s Librarian, Jim Thomas.
The winners will have their stories & poems published by the Library (they’re on the shelf from previous years!) and whenever I can get them online, I’ll post that for you. (I know you’ll read ’em – surveys show the average Update reader reads 13.7 hours a day, and doesn’t sleep. That’s why I’ll post ’em.)
The winners from last night:
Senior high division:
Short stories – Brooke Jangard (1st place), Emily Schultz (2nd), Eddie Nash & Christine Olshefsky (3rd, tie), John MacCallum (honorable mention)
Poetry – Elwyn Pratt (1st), Hannah Snow (2nd), Weston Hedin (3rd), Will Tranfo & Tristan Wood & Michael Sandifer (honorable mention)
Junior high division:
Short story – Elsa Prieto-Lopez (winner)
Poetry – Shelby Estrada (1st), Noe Roberts (2nd), Shelby Estrada (3rd), Coleton Cartmill (honorable mention)
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3 comments:
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Woo Hoo! What a great turnout! I`m glad you have time now to get involved in the writing contest again and can help Jim out. Are you going to post the winners’ stories?
Yep – we’ll post the stories as soon as the kids get ’em to us & we can pull that together! Thanks for checking in!
Didn’t the students pay a fee to recieve the published book of work for themselves?
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