Creative Writing Competition — Final Results 2011-12
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Competition this year. Here are the final results.
We will be taking book orders starting February 8, 2012 (click on Creative Writing Books in left column). Pre-ordered books cost $17 each book, including tax and shipping (1st place winners will receive one complimentary copy) before March 20, 2012. Books will be $20 plus shipping after March 20. A small number of extra copies will be available at the book release party — for the $20 price. Pre-order to guarantee your copy and the discount pricing.
Book Release party is April 4 at 5:45p. Special guest: Pam Cope, author of Jantsen’s Gift, who has appeared on Oprah Winfrey and has been featured in articles in the New York Times and others. Mark your calendar now. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Here are the 1st Place recipients and Honorable Mentions (the stories of each of these students will appear in the book). In each category, the 1st place recipient was selected as the entry with the highest ranking in the category; honorable mentions include all entries that received either a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd ranking from each judge. Honorable mentions are listed below in alphabetical order.
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Judging category: |
Results: |
First Name: |
Last Name: |
Title: |
| Fiction 3 | 1st Place | Anvita | Ukidwe | A Magical Acorn |
| Honorable Mention | Jenny | Ji | Into The Cave | |
| Honorable Mention | Yashasvi | Karri | Victory | |
| Honorable Mention | Matthew | Li | Donald the Duck | |
| Honorable Mention | Aryan | Pal | The Haunted Sausage | |
| Honorable Mention | Rachel | Sun | True Love | |
| Fiction 4 | 1st Place | Isabelle | Hernandez | Four Seasons, Two Perspectives |
| Honorable mention | Rithik | Chennupati | 2011 In Princeton | |
| Honorable mention | Sohom | Ghosh | Golok and His Alien Friends | |
| Honorable mention | Ananya | Prakash | Jill’s Halloween Adventure | |
| Honorable mention | Aneesh | Sharma | Life from a Gorilla’s Perspective | |
| Honorable mention | Benjamin | Wang | Artificial Supernova | |
| Fiction 5 | 1st Place | Manasi | Ramadurgum | The Tale of an Average Pencil |
| Honorable mention | Mihira | Gore | My Unfinished World | |
| Honorable mention | Chaeyeon | Han | The Three Wolves and the Big Bad Pig | |
| Honorable mention | Nisha | Singh | Beatrice and Wonderland | |
| Honorable mention | Kelly | Wei | Within Reach | |
| Fiction 6 | 1st Place | Ardi | Saunders | Huff and Puff and Blew–from a different point of view |
| Honorable mention | Zachary | Eckley | Invasion | |
| Honorable mention | Abbie | Hall | Escape | |
| Honorable mention | Pranjal | Jain | Face-to-Face with Androids | |
| Honorable mention | Asad | Khawaja | Journey to Calispur | |
| Honorable mention | Ashna | Pathan | Count Dracula’s Revenge | |
| Honorable mention | Minjung | Yu | They Called Me Hope | |
| Fiction 7-8 | 1st Place | Abhi | Manivannan | The Thing with Feathers |
| Honorable Mention | Nikita | Belathur | Stolen | |
| Honorable Mention | Seoyon | Lee | Prince’s Story of Cinderella | |
| Honorable mention | Aditi | Mukund | The Beauty of Friendship | |
| Honorable Mention | Manasa | Muppirala | The Mistake | |
| Honorable Mention | Aviral | Somani | Cobra Connection | |
| Fiction High School | 1st Place | Kelly | Hall | Doppelganger |
| Honorable mention | Aimee | Hyndman | Guardian | |
| Honorable mention | Prerana | Ramadurgum | Lost | |
| Honorable mention | Lexie | Yut | A Tale of Two | |
| Non-fiction Elementary | 1st Place | Maddie | Hulcy | Unexpected Fun |
| Honorable mention | Chaeyeon | Han | When the Relatives Visited | |
| Honorable mention | Akansha | Singh | Decisions | |
| Honorable mention | Manasa | Vemaraju | Boston Tea Party – The act for freedom | |
| Non-fiction High | 1st Place | Rachel | Sandle | Something New |
| Honorable mention | Raga | Ayyagari | Thanksgiving | |
| Honorable mention | Joshua | Chanin | Finding My Voice | |
| Honorable mention | Jessica | Chavarro | Goodbye Lady | |
| Honorable mention | V | Karri | Permission | |
| Honorable mention | Brianna | Williams | The Product of a Real Family | |
| Honorable mention | Lexie | Yut | Shower for the Soul | |
| Non-fiction Middle | 1st Place | Ananya | Rajesh | St. Eustace |
| Honorable mention | Sara | Koh | The Unfinished puzzle | |
| Honorable mention | Aditi | Mukund | A Broken Childhood | |
| Honorable mention | Nathan | Sims | The Accident | |
| Honorable mention | Shruti | Vellaturi | Our Texas | |
| Honorable mention | Minjung | Yu | Just a Simple Seed | |
| Poetry 11-12 | 1st Place | Aadam | Husain | Heart Beats On |
| Honorable mention | Petra | Antoine | Jealousy | |
| Honorable mention | Raga | Ayyagari | Different | |
| Honorable mention | Sneha | Ayyagari | For the Redwood | |
| Honorable mention | Jessica | Chavarro | Light Through The Confusion | |
| Honorable mention | Kelly | Stewart | Alzheimer’s Disease | |
| Poetry 3 | 1st Place | Isabella | Zeff | A Quiet Town |
| Honorable Mention | Jenny | Ji | The Mouse | |
| Poetry 4 | 1st Place | Emilie | Sangerhausen | The Cat |
| Honorable Mention | Vanuli | Arya | What It Is | |
| Honorable Mention | Langston | Gardner | How Blessed I Am | |
| Honorable Mention | Aneesh | Sharma | Piano Keys | |
| Honorable Mention | Carrie | Sheffield | Forests | |
| Poetry 5 | 1st Place | Manasi | Ramadurgum | Inside my Sister’s Pocket |
| Honorable Mention | Almira | Rajwani | Bluberry field | |
| Honorable Mention | Stella | Yan | Rain | |
| Poetry 6 | 1st Place | Ashley | Rivera | Unique |
| Honorable mention | nikki | falk | Think | |
| Honorable mention | Hannah | Hohman | Goal | |
| Honorable mention | Christine | Ji | Hope | |
| Honorable mention | Sarah | Low | Endurance | |
| Honorable mention | Lauren | McCord | Anything in the World | |
| Honorable mention | Reyna | Rivas | Your Best Friend | |
| Honorable mention | Minjung | Yu | Angels Don’t Always Have Wings | |
| Poetry 7 | 1st Place | Meara | Isenberg | The Beach |
| Honorable mention | Nikita | Belathur | The Meanest of Them All | |
| Honorable mention | Hiran | Buyyanapragada | Our Home Planet | |
| Honorable mention | BILAL | HAQUE | Fear | |
| Honorable mention | Abhi | Manivannan | The Girl and the Maple Tree | |
| Honorable mention | Manasa | Muppirala | The Best Day Ever | |
| Honorable mention | Veronica | Nguyen | On The Outside and Inside | |
| Honorable mention | Trinity | Sullivan | Steadfast In A Revolution | |
| Poetry 8 | 1st Place | Ananya | Rajesh | The South |
| Honorable mention | Hriju | Adhikari | Life As We Know It | |
| Honorable mention | Sanskriti | Agarwal | Mother Nature | |
| Honorable mention | Gayatri | Godithi | How to spend life | |
| Honorable mention | Surbhi | Kumar | Don’t Wing it | |
| Honorable mention | Arthi | Tarugu | The Art of Unmoving | |
| Poetry 9-10 | 1st Place | Katy | Li | Wishbone |
| Honorable mention | Kelly | Hall | Dear Shadow | |
| Honorable mention | Jessica | Kelly | Gray Blanket | |
| Honorable mention | Emaan | Majed | Demands | |
| Honorable mention | Aparna | Panatpur | A New World Acrostic Poem | |
| Honorable mention | Prerana | Ramadurgum | New Kid | |
| Honorable mention | Lexie | Yut | Waiting |
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