The 2010 Elora Writers’ Festival Writing Competition

                         

                         

 

 

 Results for the Writing Competition

announced at the Elora Writers’ Festival, June 6,  2010

 

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OPEN  WRITING COMPETITION

 

 Prose:

First:: Gloria Nye, Seventeen Crows * present at Festival.

Second: Norma West Linder, One Too Many

Third:: Steven Joseph, Eric.


Poetry:

First: Graeme Lottering, Siamese Fighting Fish

Second: Sarah McComb, Blurring The Lines *present at Festival

Third:: Becky Alexander, The Necklace.

 

YOUNG WRITERS CONTEST

Announced in a special awards event for youth, June 6, 2010

 

 

 Junior prizes sponsored by the Community Resource Centre of Centre and North Wellington.


Junior Prose (18 entries)

First $75 Laura Hill Elora Guinea Pigs of Gill Street

Second $50 Alice Kennedy Elora Dear Mother Earth

Third $25 Isaiah Durand Chesterfield MO An Open Window

HM Raven Griffin Maryhill The Cameron Lake Catastrophe

HM Finn Hunter O’Connor Kitchener King Rye

 

Junior Poetry (121 entries)

First $75 Victoria Bell Guelph Memories

Second $50 Isabella Taylor Austin, TX The Curse of Gold

Third $25 Jacob Rose-Janes Elora Lego

HM Alenna Medeiros Elora If My Family Were a Pencil Case

HM Tyler Arkell Elora Toronto

 

Teen prizes sponsored by the Elora Arts Council

 

Teen Prose (35 entries)

First $100 Deanna Marostica Guelph After the Bomb – a Portrait of Grief in Five Parts

Second $75 Manuela Haemmerli Mitchell The Familiar Stranger

Third $50 Tristan Mills Guelph Secret Vigil

HM Viktorija Arsic Fergus Saviour

HM Isabel McHattie Puslinch Ours For the Taking

 

Teen Poetry (77 entries)

First $100 Erin Mullen Guelph Cinderella

Second $75 Deanna Marostica Guelph Workplace Hierarchy in Heaven

Third $50 Hilary Stahlbaum Fergus Sonnet of Lies

HM Aglaia Ho Forest Hills NY The Little Girl and the Newspaper

HM Lindsay Pearlman Syosset NY Songbird Eulogy

HM Caroline Garrod Guelph The Taxidermists

HM Manuela Haemmerli Mitchell Synthetic Truths

HM Kelsey Tripp Roanoke VA Evidence

 

There were 251 entries.

Our thanks to Jean Mills, Chair for Youth Competition & Julia Browne, Chair for Open Competition

Also to the judges and the contestants

 

ELORA WRITERS FESTIVAL

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 Attendance at Youth Awards

 

Jean Mills announces the winners

 

julia browne awarding the Open Competition prize after intermission of the Elora Writers’ festival

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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