Twenty-one students at Bright School are being honored as winners of the Young Southern Student Writers contest sponsored by the Southern Lit Alliance and the Department of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. All students in grades 3-5 submitted works of prose and poetry. UTC faculty and graduate students read every submission and evaluate each for creativity, content and style and select winners from each school. Submissions of all the winners are compiled and published in a book each year. Fourth grader Luke Sawrie and fifth grader Zohayr Memon won in both categories.

Congratulations to our winning writers!

Third Grade

Poetry

Anna Zmaj, Mrs. Womack
Thad Smith, Mrs. Hyer
Braden Hutcherson, Mrs. Reasor
Sadie Holland, Mrs. Reasor

Prose

Brodie Beard, Mrs. Womack
Olivia Lunn, Mrs. Hyer
Phoenix Beasley, Mrs. Reasor

Fourth Grade (Mrs. Sakich, writing)

Poetry

Cohen McDaniel
Wyatt Miller
Zoe Robinson
Luke Sawrie

Prose

Margaret Daniel
Keegan Hirayama
Luke Sawrie
Lela Kate Sorrow

Fifth Grade (Mrs. O’Brien, writing)

Poetry

Ben Dillard
Avery Levin
Zohayr Memon
Katie Grace Tuder

Prose

Carlos Baleeiro
Ella Cooper
Zohayr Memon
Greta Olson