June 13,2008
by Christine Yeres
High School Winners added!
In January, the word goes out from the Friends of the Chappaqua Library that Young Writers’ Contest applications are available to middle and high school students. This is a contest that pays serious attention to the power of the pen, the ability of writing to amuse, to persuade, to communicate or to touch readers’ hearts, whether through fiction, non-fiction or poetry.
Judges for the contest are writers who live in the community and student submissions are judged blind. Both our judges and the Friends were thrilled with this year’s bumper crop of submissions.
This morning, Friday, June 13, the high school winners will be announced in a school-wide assembly. Come back to our site at mid-day and we will have updated today’s issue to include those winners’ names. This summer we will publish all of the winning stories, essays and poems from the contest.
Winners from Robert E. Bell and Seven Bridges Middle Schools
Poetry
1st place: Maya Anand, grade 7, “Sea Dancer”
2nd place: Katie Ippolito, grade 6, “The Teapot”
3rd place: Nora Kerrich, grade 8, “Overcast”
Fiction
1st place: Adam Cooper, grade 8, “Prisoner of Faith”
2nd place: Elizabeth Dee, grade 6, “Knight in Shining Armor, Sort of”
3rd place: Danielle Jacobson, grade 8, “That Father-Son Thing”
Creative Non-Fiction
1st place: Helen Thum, grade 8, “A Few More Minutes”
2nd place: Caroline Johnson, grade 8, “Stressed Before Seven”
3rd place: Kate Rosenberg, grade 6, “ The Acrobatic Squirrel”
Horace Greeley High School:
Poetry1st place: Brett Rosenberg, grade 12, “Othello”
2nd place: Calla Smith-Triglia, grade 11, “Shakespeare’s Outtake - Lady Macbeth’s Suicide”
3rd place: Brooke Biederman, grade 10, “What the Dollar Saw”
Fiction
1st place: Judith Chung, grade 10, “Fantasy in C Major”
2nd place: (tie)
P. J. Grisar, grade 11, “The Herald”
Will Mantell, grade 10, “A Christmas Story”
3rd place: Calla Smith-Triglia, grade 11, “Full of Flair”
Creative Non-fiction
1st place: Laura Mantell, grade 12, “My Bud, the Spud”
2nd place: Laura Hertz, grade 12, “X-Ray Vision”
3rd place: Hilary Gerstein, grade 12, “Stool Life”
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