[stylist] 2012 Writing Contest Winners

[Robert Leslie Newman]

Here are the results from our 2012 Writing contest. Crazy! After announcing
the winners at the meeting in Dallas, we also place them up on the
Division's Website. And at that same time, we should have sent them via
email out to all of you!!! Bad-Bad-Bad. Sorry. Never again!

 

Here they are:

 

2012 Combined Youth and Adult Writing Contest Winners 

 

2012 Youth Braille Writing Contest Winners

elementary poetry

1st Place: Football

Deven Kimnitz 

6th Grade- Louisiana School for the Blind  

 

2nd Place: School, School 

Dontay Penn 

5th Grade- Louisiana School for the Blind  

 

3rd Place: cats

Joseph Anthony  

5th Grade- Louisiana School for the Blind 

 

Elementary Stories

1st Place: The Hulk to the Rescue

Mohammed Shalabi 

2nd Grade- Piscataway, NJ

 

2nd Place: The Story of the Different Sock

Christopher Caiola 

3rd Grade- Manalapan, NJ

 

3rd Place: What My Pet Should Be

Owen Boyl 

1st Grade- Manasquan, NJ

 

Honorable Mention: The Magic Rider

Megan Copeland 

3rd Grade- Owatonna, MN   

 

Middle School Poetry

1st Place: The Day in the Life of Zach

Zach Carr 

7th Grade- Benld, IL

 

Middle School Stories

1st Place: The Face

Lashelle Lewis-Smith 

8th Grade- Rockford, IL 

 

2nd Place: The Haunting

Megan Marsh 

8th Grade- Hamburg, Pa  

 

3rd Place: My First Day Of School

Lauryn Boyle 

6th Grade- Manasquan, NJ 

 

High School Poetry

1st Place: A Best Friend to the End

Cyquotta Moore 

11th Grade- Louisiana School for the Blind  

 

2nd Place: The World of Stars

Kate Mitchell 

11th Grade- Manitoba, Canada  

 

High School Stories

1st Place: Watermelon World

Vejas Vasiliauskas 

9th Grade- Manhattan Beach, CA 

 

2nd Place: Being trapped in a nightmare.

Rachelle Broomfield 

12th Grade- Honolulu, HI  

 

3rd Place: My Favorite Trip

11th Grade- Kate Mitchell 

Manitoba, Canada  

 

Adult Contests

 

Adult Memoir 

 

First place: Author #24: The Art of Dying

Bonnie Blose

Jewett, OH 

 

Second place: Author #13: The Living Room

Lynda Lambert

Ellwood City, PA

 

Third Place: Author #23: Downsizing, Bah, Humbug

Jacqueline Williams

Mesa, AZ

 

Honorable Mention: Author #33: Pin the Sale on this Donkey

Janet Parmerter-DiNola  

Loganville, Georgia

 

Honorable Mention: Author #18: Throwing Chippers off the Roof

Jeff Flodin

Chicago, IL

 

Adult Fiction:

 

1st Place: Excerpts from Now, Then and  Forever

Kathy Nimmer

West Lafayette, IN

 

2nd Place: The Scorpion Women 

Mark Chorna

Paris, France

 

3rd Place: Trickster's Daughter 

Amy Krout-Horn

St. Petersburg, FL

 

Honorable Mention: Tyler 

Doris Hampton

Myrtle Point, OR

 

Honorable Mention: Ceffyll DWR  

EvaMarie Sanchez

Idaho Falls, ID

 

Adult Storyies for Youth:

 

1st Place: Little Champ 14

EvaMarie Sanchez

Idaho Falls, ID

 

2nd Place: Stocking Anna 21 

Marilyn Brandt Smith

Louisville KY 

 

Adult Poetry:

 

1st Place: Arizona

Kay Spears

Tolleson, AZ 

 

2nd Place: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the River

Lynda Lambert

Ellwood City, PA 

 

3rd Place: The Writers Science

Miranda Anderson

Muskogee, OK

 

Honorable Mention: From the Widow's Walk

Marilyn Brandt Smith

Louisville KY 

 

Honorable Mention: Night Dreams

Jacqueline Williams

Mesa, AZ

 

Honorable Mention: White or Brown

Marion McFadden

Broken Arrow, OK

 

 

Robert Leslie Newman

Personal Website-

Adjustment To Blindness And Visual impairment

http//www.thoughtprovoker.info

NFB Writers' Division, president

http://www.nfb-writers-division.net 

Chair of the NFB Communications Committee