Twenty students recognized in Young Southern Student Writers contest
The fifth grade winners are: Kenzie Rogers, Paisley Rogers, Charlotte Cohn, Layla Dhanani, Royce Felts and Greyson Early.
Young writers and poets were recognized in the Young Southern Student Writers contest organized by SoLit and the UTC English department.
The Young Southern Student Writers (YSSW) contest was started in 1999, and this year, there were more than 3,500 entries by students in public and private schools and home schools in Hamilton County. Faculty in the UTC English department read each entry and award winners from each school and grade in prose and poetry in grades K-12. All Bright School third, fourth and fifth graders submit entries. There are 20 Bright student winners, and one student won in both prose and poetry.
Fifth grade winners:
Charlotte Cohn – Prose
Layla Dhanani – Prose
Greyson Early – Poetry
Royce Felts – Poetry
Paisley Rogers – Poetry
Kenzie Rogers – Prose
Fourth grade winners:
Will McCall – Prose
Eliza Osborne – Prose
Jasper Stone – Prose and Poetry
Charlie Card – Poetry
Riley Hill – Poetry
Henry Hudson – Poetry
Eliot Senter – Prose
Third grade winners:
Elliot Guild – Poetry
Margaret Stanley – Prose
Marion Moore – Prose
Alex Osl – Poetry
Penelope Ross – Prose
Mirabelle Soufer – Poetry
Robert Todd – Poetry
An awards ceremony was held on Monday, April 228, at the Roland Hayes Concert Hall at UTC.
The fourth grade winners were: Eliot Senter, Charlie Card, Jasper Stone, Riley Hill, Will McCall, Henry Hudson and Eliza Osbourne.
The third grade winners were: Robert Todd, Margaret Stanley, Marion Moore, Mirabelle Soufer, Penelope Ross, Elliot Guild and Alex Osl (not pictured).
- YSSW