2024 Annual Writing Contest Winners Announced

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Annual Writing Contest! After much deliberation and some extremely difficult choices, the judges selected the following pieces:
 

6-9 Grade Fiction

First Place: Patient No. 3160-File by Josephine Dunn

Second Place: The Doll by Georgia Leeman

6-9 Grade Non-Fiction

First Place: At Sprague Pond by Zella Morgan

No Second Place

10-12 Grade Fiction

First Place: Give Up the Ghost by Callum McInnis

Second Place: Blinded by Aurora Guzzetti

Adult Fiction

First Place: Highway Bound by Joan Newkirk

Second Place: At the Station by James O. Melita

Adult Non-Fiction

First Place TIE: Eliza’s Rocker by Rosalind Benton

First Place TIE: Baseball Cards by Paul Kalkstein

Second Place: Dining with the Montagnards by Douglas Robb

 
All participants will be celebrated at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, February 11 at 5:30pm, and all winners will see their pieces featured in our literary magazine, which will be published in February.
 
Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to everyone who entered!

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