Author of the article: Lorraine Payette • For Postmedia Network Publishing date: Apr 05, 2021 • 12 hours ago • 3 minute read • Gananoque's Poet Laureate Gretchen Huntley (seen here reading one of her poems in 2019) will be one of the judges for the Gananoque Public Library's I Rise youth creative writing competition. Lorraine Payette/For Postmedia Network Photo by Lorraine Payette /For Postmedia Network Article content The Gananoque Public Library is calling all local area Grade 7 – 12 students to share their COVID 19 pandemic experiences, in the form of a writing contest. “The contest idea came from our library’s current board of directors,” Pam Hudson, of the Gananoque Public Library, said. “On that board of directors, we have a youth representative who attends our local high school. She’s a bright, intelligent and talented young woman and was asked if she could develop the contest plan – one that would inspire young people to write about their personal experience in the COVID-19 era.”