Thursday, November 16, 2017

Festival of Words winners announced

Congratulations to students who placed in the 2017 Festival of Words Youth Creative Writing Contest. They are:

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Poetry
1st: "Achieve" by Ethan Landes, 5th grade, Berchman’s Academy

Fiction
1st: "Light and Shadow in the War of Age" by Mason Darby, 5th grade, Berchman’s Academy

MIDDLE SCHOOL
Poetry
1st  "March to the Sea" by Rani Meaux, 8th grade, North Vermilion Middle School
2nd:  "Our Universe" by Brooklyn Orr, 7th grade, North Vermilion Middle School
3rd:  "Leaves" by Candence Tucker, 8th grade, L.J. Alleman Middle School

Fiction
1st  "The Bad" by Blair Saltzman, 8th grade, North Vermilion Middle School
2nd:  "Samel” by Kristos Guillory, 8th grade, North Vermilion Middle School
3rd:  "Rein’s Foolishness”, by Mya Gerard, 8th grade, Broussard Middle School
4th  "Dream Journals and Reality,” by Madison Trahan, 7th grade, North Vermilion Middle School

HIGH SCHOOL
Poetry
1st: "Bookworm" by Cameron Choate, 10th grade, Lafayette High
2nd: “Something Somewhere Fell” by Alex Malcombe, 11th grade, Lafayette High School
3rd:  "The Day that I Felt Nothing,” by Aalayah Richard, 12th grade, Carencro High School

Fiction
1st: "Victim,” by Victoria Matte, 10th grade, Lafayette High School
2nd: "I Want to Join,” by Gavin Novasad, 10th grade, Lafayette High School
3rd:  "Breakthrough,” by Kyley Prejean, 9th grade, Carencro High School

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The Acadiana Writing Project partners with Festival of Words every year to sponsor the Festival of Words Youth Writing Contest. Hundreds of students in grades 3-12 from across Acadiana submitted poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction pieces. All submissions were anonymous, for blind judging. Winners were honored at The Thensted Center on Saturday, Nov. 4. For more information about the Festival of Words, visit  http//www.festivalofwords.org/




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