2019 Writing Contest

I AM AMERICAN

Student Winners

Elementary School

First Place: Felix Wang

Felix Wang

Secondary School

First Place Poetry: India-Mae Fraser

India-Mae Fraser

Second Place Poetry: Helen Brewer

Helen Brewer

First Place Prose: Mehul Bhattacharyya

Mehul Bhattacharyya

Second Place Prose: Manjari Kannan

Manjari Kannan

Third Place Prose: Ruemon Bhattacharyya

Reumon Bhattacharyva

Honorable Mention: Dana Blatte

Dana Blatte

Upper High School

First Place: Rachel Hess Wachman

Rachel Wachman

Second Place: Sarah Khan

Sarah Khan

Third Place: Lindsay Navick

Lindsay Navick

Adult Winners

First Place Prose: Vera Jordan (Both stories placed first)

Vera Jordan

Second Place Prose: Linda Zoe Podbros

Linda Zoe Podbros

Second Place Prose: John Reilly

John Reilly

Third Place Prose: Lan Jiang

Lan Jiang

Third Place Prose: Linda Zimmerman

Linda Zimmerman

First Place Poetry: Adelene Ellenberg

Adelene Ellenberg

Second Place Poetry: Barrie Haji

Barrie Naji

Honorable Mention:

Alan Rosenspan

Ric Calleja

Laurie Silver

Anna Golubev

In Appreciation:

Sally Krusing

Dale Slongwhite

Julie Hayward-Trout

2018 Writing Contest Winners

Topic: Unconditional Love

PROSE – ADULT

First Place

To My Unborn Baby Boy by Mindy Levine

I’ll Love You on Sunday by Jodi Tolman

Second Place

The Giver by Barry Kravitz

Third Place

Conditioning Book for Flowers by Thu Hang Tran

In Passing by Susan Rich

Honorable Mention:

Midwinter Light by Sandra Churchill

Mom’s Gift by Alice Cusner

Love is Kind by Darcy Daniels

The Bakery by Lisa Delaney

The Most Beautiful Girl by Adelene Ellenberg

Rebecca’s Birth by Lonnie Friedman

Zahava’s Birth by Lonnie Friedman

Love, Dormant, Old by Linda Zoe Podbros

Roger by Herschel Tovsky

In Appreciation:

The Last Man on Earth by Al Mollitor

Creepy Spiders by Caterina Marsilli

Unconditional Love (n) by Allison Herman

Here’s the Thing by John Reilly

Dogs are the Best by Anna Golubev

The Question by Cam Giangrande

For the Love of Books by Moira Silva

Hurl by TJ Herlihy

Amor Vincit Omnia by Alan N. Francis

POETRY – ADULT

First Place

I Loved by CJ Heller

Second Place

Maybe she, like me by Autumn Andrade

Mermaid by Nancy Allen

Third Place

Love is much more like a flame by Ric Calleja

Honorable Mention:

Love by Elly Day

I am a child by Miriam Leah Epstein-Preil

Another Letter to My Love by Shane Whitman

In Appreciation:

The Sight of Mirrors by David Abrahamson

Dorothea by Russell Maynard

I love you from afar by Kathleen Habel

Wet Wood Burns by Katarzyna Gilek-Seibert

Anagram to my Mom by Phyllis Fine

Snow by Grace Francis

Purest Love of All by Shweta Khadelwal

PROSE – STUDENT

First place

That Was All That Mattered by Ilana Wulf

2nd place

Unconditional Love by Jayani Suresh

3rd place prose

Unconditional Love by Ranya Merchant

Unconditional Love by Eshel Potok

POETRY – STUDENT