The Rotary Club of Summit County has announced the winners of is annual high school short story and poetry contests, which are designed to encourage creative literacy among students. The prizes for first, second and third places were $250, $150 and $100, respectively.
Short story contest
Maggie Butler, home-school student, “The Thought of Plummeting from an Impossible Height”
Poetry contest
Sam Burke, Snowy Peaks, “Mascne” and Maleena Mero, Summit High School, “Waves” (tie)
Maggie Butler, home-school student, “Sisyphus”
A special poetry award also was given to students in Karin Mitchell’s ninth grade class including Logan Charles, TJ Clawson, Sammy Crawford, Grace Gibson, Tarn Ihnken, Scarlet Neustaedter, Jacob Singleton and Sienna Sussman for “So much depends upon … ,” which was inspired by William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow.”
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How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #3: Lightness
May 12, 2021
An update from the third Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett
A summary of the Workshop held on Saturday May 1, plus some of the output published below
Lightness is a
lightening of language whereby meaning is conveyed through a verbal texture that seems weightless, until the meaning itself takes on the same rarefied consistency.” -
Italo Calvino
“My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language -