Library Announces Winners of 2007 Young People’s Creative Writing Contest

More than 600 children and teens entered Tulsa City-County Library’s 2007 Young People’s Creative Writing Contest, and more than 850 entries were received.

The library rewarded the young aspiring writers for their hard work at an awards ceremony held Aug. 25 at Central Library and featuring Newbery Medal-winning author Kate DiCamillo, winner of the Tulsa Library Trust’s 2007 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers’ Literature.

The Tulsa Library Trust, Tulsa City-County Library, Friends of the Tulsa City-County Libraries, KWGS Public Radio 89.5 and the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust co-sponsor the Young People’s Creative Writing Contest.

KWGS invited some of the winners from the informal essay and poetry categories to record their works for broadcast, and the Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust will produce and present some of the winning plays. The one-act play production, called “Brain Storms: New Works by Young Writers,” is scheduled Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. at the PAC in the Charles Norman Theatre. Local playwright Michael Wright, director of the interdisciplinary program in creative writing at the University of Tulsa, will direct the plays.

Contest winners received $100 for first place, $50 for second and $25 for third. Winners of the 2007 Young People’s Creative Writing Contest are:

• Poetry, ages 10-11: Sarah Coniglio, “All My Teachers Hate Me,” first place; Taylor Parks, “A Villain’s Poem,” second place; Lauren James, “My Favorite Place,” third place. Ages 12-13: Lincoln Mitchell, “I Will Become ‘Where I’m From’,” first place; Austin Edwards, “Braces Stink,” second place; Brandie McAllister, “Friendship Bracelet,” third place. Ages 14-15: Jeff M.T. Degginger, “Guilt?," first place; Neisha Whitaker, “What Will Happen,” second place; Emily Long, “The Bagman,” third place. Ages 16-18: Amelia Williamson, “Suzuki Kiitzu, Bird in Tree,” first place; Ruth Hogan, “Words to Say,” second place; Katie Wenzell, “Snow Globe,” third place.
• Short story, ages 10-11: Madison E. Mobley, “Reunissez,” first place; Michelle Reich, “A Cinderella Charm,” second place; Micah Cash, “The Mysterious Blackmailer,” third place. Ages 12-13: Matt Crawford, “The Greatest Birthday Ever,” first place; Farley White, “Old Buttercup,” second place; Katherine King, “Twice a Traitor,” third place. Ages 14-15: Krysta Camp, “More Than Perfect,” first place; Emily Hedgecock, “I’m Not Crazy, Honest!”, second place; Andrew Adelson, “Roger and the Big Gamble,” third place. Ages 16-18: Rachel Rice, “The Arsonist,” first place; Rachel Roubein, “The Soda on Capitol Hill,” second place; Jonathan M. Hall, “Reigning Cats and Dogs,” third place.

• Informal essay, ages 10-11: Nathan Hinkle, “Chimpanzees,” first place; Nicole Flippo, “Cliques,” second place; Christy Harrill, “The Most Wonderful Creatures on Earth,” third place. Ages 12-13: Jessica Shenoi, “The Important Things in Life,” first place; Daphne Desjardins, “This I Believe,” second place; Summer Hill, “A Generous Heritage of Creative Education,” third place. Ages 14-15: Micah Peters, “A Lesson in Black,” first place; Michelle Farell, “From Trembling to Triumph,” second place; Ellen Humphreys, “Possum,” third place. Ages 16-18: Ruth Hogan, “Everybody Is Doing It! So Let’s Go Do Something Else,” first place; Jennifer Nicholson, “Wildflower Sanctuary,” second place; Robert Healey, “The Greatest Invention Ever,” third place.
• One-act play, ages 10-11: Abigail Cascairo, “The Child From the Sea,” first place; Nicole Flippo, “Life of a 5th Grader,” second place; Morgan Edwards, “We’re All Different,” third place. Ages 12-13: Vicki Benedek, “All Is Fair in Friends, Knitting, and Magic,” first place; Emma Jane Pendleton, “The Lancaster Runaway,” second place; Gabi Inhofe, “Howard Beaufort and the Peculiar Affair of Granges,” third place. Ages 14-15: no winners selected; not enough entries. Ages 16-18: Carolyn Hedley, “Roomies,” first place; Robert Healey, “The Carpenter’s Vision,” second place; Megan Maddux, “The Kansas City Shuffle,” third place.

For more information about the Young People’s Creative Writing Contest, click on http://teens.tulsalibrary.org/getinvolved/writing_contest.htm or call 596-7977.

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