[stylist] NFB Writers' division 2015 Writing Contest Winners

[Jacobson, Shawn D]

Let me also congratulate the winners.

I sent this on to the Maryland Division president's Email address since there were so many MD youth who won.

Shawn

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Winners of the 2015 Writing Contest for Youth and Adults 

 

**Adult Writing Contest Winners

 

*FICTION:

 

First Place: One For Every Year, by Chris Kuell, CT

Second Place: The Jidhe Ken, by Doris Hampton, OR

Third Place: 75 Days to Live, by Rowena Portch, WA 

Honorable Mention: Invinsonites, by Atty Svendsen, NE

Honorable Mention: A Successful Hunt, by Heather M. Rasmussen, Washington DC


 

*STORIES FOR YOUTH:

 

First Place: The Dragon's Princess, by Laura Nunez, CA

Second Place: The Storyteller, by Jennifer Shields, VA

Third Place: 75 Cents, by Ginger Glick, AZ 

 

*POETRY:

 

First Place: Seeing Beyond Seventy-five Million, by Kathy Nimmer, IN

Second Place: You, by Donna Chambers, NV

Third Place: 75 Celebrations, by Tasha Hubbard, VA 

Honorable Mention: Legacy, by Jacqueline Williams, AZ

 

*MEMOIR:

 

First Place: A River Called Life, by Allison Nastoff, WI

Second Place: Cookie Cutter Christmas, by Shirley Ann Grauel, MO 

Third Place: From the Deck, by Jim Gilstrap, GA

Honorable Mention: Not Ready to Wake, by Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter, NE 

 

**Youth Writing Contest Winners

 

*ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FICTION:

 

First Place: 75 Kids on a Cruise Ship, by William Souza, CA 

Second Place: My $75 Day, by Makayla Reeves, NJ 

Third Place: The Life at 75, by Lashai Richardson, MD

 

*ELEMENTARY School POETRY: 

 

First Place: 75 Years, by Delaney Brooks, VA

Second Place: The Garden, by Ryan Menter, ME

Third Place: by Route 75, by Sean Meek, NY

 

*MIDDLE SCHOOL FICTION: 

 

First Place: Coala is 75 Miles From Nowhere, by Taengkwa Sturgell, IN

Second Place: 75 Werewolves, by Michael Pickerill, MT

Third Place: Heart Counting, by Jessea Vaughan, IN

Honorable Mention: Memory 75, by Avery Poland, TX

Honorable Mention: 75 Birthday Candles, by Yael Korc, MD

Honorable Mention: 75 Winners, by P'Tress Franklin, MD

 

*MIDDLE SCHOOL POETRY: 

 

First Place: Lots of Dots, by Taengkwa Sturgell, MD

Second Place: 75 Days, by Jessea Vaughan, IN

 

*HIGH SCHOOL FICTION:

 

First Place: 75 Stones, by Caitlyn Laster, AR

Second Place: Michele's Universe Adventure, by Michele Lemus, MD

 

*HIGH SCHOOL POETRY:

 

First Place: 75 Poem, by Amy Albin, NJ

Second Place: These 75 Years, by Gretchen Brown, IN

 

 

 

 

 

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