2009 Winning Entries
Poetry
Age 12
1st Place - Erica Grace Sonier - There Once Was a Cowboy
2nd Place - Samantha Togeretz - Poor Girl
Age 13
1st Place - Eva Kay - Poppy
2nd Place - Rowan Lynch - Twinkel
Age 14
1st Place - Cara Schroedter - Why Are the Dandelions So Free?
2nd Place - Tamara Brstina - Waiting to Cross the Tide...
Age 15
1st Place - Micaela Corcoran - Walking Home
2nd Place - Kristi Kwan - I am Not a Poet
Age 16
1st Place - Christine Raby - Rain Can't Help Us Now
2nd Place - Cody Hansen - My Photo of You
Age 17
1st Place - Riley Kucheran - The End of Our Beginning
2nd Place - Kristen McMinn - I Am
Age 18
1st Place - Chris Merkus - Abortion Perspectives
2nd Place - Angel Summers - Memories Everlasting
Short Fiction
Age 12
1st Place - Rudi Barwin - The Speech Balloon Revolution
2nd Place - Victoria Lamond - Just Me
Age 13
1st Place - Katie Brown - White Ribbon
2nd Place - Lauren Hansen - Life is a Mystery
Age 14
1st Place - Roheen Bhatti - How I Saved the World
2nd Place - Elizabeth Kuenzel - The Most Powerful Thing of All
Age 15
1st Place - Ellis Ritz - Out of the Woods
2nd Place - Meaghan Scott - The Patchwork Person
Age 16
1st Place - Meaghan Colombo - Alone
2nd Place - Sarah McCrackin - Genetic Variation
Age 17
1st Place - Paige Louter - Revelations
2nd Place - Laura McVey - An Intellectual Friendship
Age 18
1st Place - Adrian Hielema - Are You Happy Now?
2nd Place - Kelly Tice - The Deliverance

