Photograph by Rheal Doucette
Ottawa – The winners of this year’s Awesome Authors youth writing contest, which ran from October 2010 to January 2011, were announced last night in The Chamber at Ben Franklin Place.
Prizes were handed out to honour Ottawa-area youth between the ages of 9 and 17 who submitted poems and/or short stories in French and/or English. Local authors Brenda Chapman, Michel Lavoie and JC Sulzenko judged the submissions.
The winners’ works will be included this fall in pot-pourri, an anthology of short stories and poems published by the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library (FOPLA). To pre-order a copy of pot-pourri, call 613-580-2424 x14383.
The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) holds the contest annually, with sponsorship from FOPLA.
OPL congratulates Ottawa’s newest Awesome Authors for their writing excellence! The following list, organized by writing category, includes each winner’s name, the title of their winning work, their age group, their standing and the school they attend.
1st place:
Patrick Leong, The Adventure for the Golden Pencil
Hilson Avenue Public School
2nd place:
Caroline Beauchesne, Homework
Terre-des-Jeunes
3rd place:
Stuart Jones, Com
Canadian Montessori Academy
Michael Zhang, The Quest
Jack Donohue Public School
Ella Blais, A Tale of 2 Cats, not a Tale of a Cat with 2 Tails, part 1
W.O. Mitchell Elementary School
Amy McKay, A Sticky Situation
First Avenue Public School
1st place:
Emmy Fu, cherry coke
Cedarview Middle School
2nd place:
Kate Reeve, Scarred
Immaculata High School
3rd place:
Christelle Tan, A Ship’s Tale
Earl of March Secondary School
Yukine Sudo, Sky Drive
Stephen Leacock Public School
Flavia Dalpra, The Tale of the Shield Maiden and Her Brave Companions
Homeschooled
Pegah Ehsani, The End of the World
Ridgemont High School
1st place:
Victoria Klassen, Freedom
St. Mark Catholic High School
2nd place:
Sanda Ajzerle, An Outing
Immaculata High School
3rd place:
Patricia Foster, Picking up the Pieces
École secondaire publique Omer-Deslauriers
Emilia Morgan, I am Wrecked
Merivale High School
1st place:
Mikaela Fournier-Moar, If I Were a Secret
Mary Honeywell Elementary School
Sophia Carney, Flawless
Hilson Avenue Public School
2nd place:
Eileen O’Brien, Typhoid fever
Mutchmor Public School
3rd place:
None awarded
Millie McNeill-McKinnell, Autumn Afternoon
Hopewell Avenue Public School
Melinda Cass, When Someone Dies
Turnbull School
Amelia Carney, A breakfast in the forest
Rockcliffe Park Public School
1st place:
Emmy Fu, your fingerprints burnt stories in me
Cedarview Middle School
2nd place:
Heather Sutcliffe, Hard to tell
Brookfield High School
3rd place:
Sian Bolliger, The WoOlvS and Thier Victims
Hopewell Avenue Public School
Claire Hendrickson-Jones, Moments
Ottawa Waldorf School
Kiera Sandrock, Dust to Dust
St. Mark Catholic High School
Augusta Chiraghdin, Ghost Words
Hawthorne Public School
1st place:
Sophia Ross, Psyche
Canterbury High School
2nd place:
Sophia Ross, The Ballad of Roberta Boyd
Canterbury High School
3rd place:
Jeremy Davis, A Bird’s Choice
Canterbury High School
Lesley LeRoux, Cataclysm
Canterbury High School
Morgan Williams, The Right Attitude
Lisgar Collegiate Institute
Meghan McInnis, Simple Words
Sir Robert Borden High School
1er prix:
Renée Davies, Un suppléant pas comme les autres
École élémentaire catholique Montfort
2e prix:
Emile Royer, Le monde 6.6
École du Lac-des-Fées
3e prix:
Sophie Paquin, Le mystère de la dame aux animaux
École élémentaire Arc-en-ciel
Sofia Cazorla-Bak, Les flèches et l’épée
École élémentaire publique Francojeunesse
1er prix:
Nicolas Lum, Comment lancer une nouvelle mode à l’école
École Montessori d’Ottawa
2e prix:
Marianne Cousineau, Le néant
École secondaire publique De La Salle
3e prix:
Katrina El Asmar, La véritable liberté
École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité
1er prix :
Émilie Bruneau et Isabelle St-Hilaire, Métamorphose
École secondaire publique De La Salle
2e prix:
Brigitte Delisle, Vie fragile
École secondaire catholique Garneau
3e prix:
Michelle Winckel, Indélébile
École secondaire publique De La Salle
1er prix:
Martin Baroody, Le Corbeau d’Éclair
Ashbury College
2e prix:
Nassim Dib-Mudie, D’une place à l’autre
École élémentaire publique Francojeunesse
3e prix:
Jenna Swim, La petite sorcière
École La Source
Abigaël Carpentier, La neige
École élémentaire catholique Saint-Guillaume
1er prix:
Katrina El Asmar, Sous la pluie de l’humanité
École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité
2e prix:
Michelle Veilleux, Assassin invisible
Collège catholique Franco-Ouest
3e prix:
Michelle Veilleux, Inspiration
Collège catholique Franco-Ouest
Catherine Baillargeon, La paix
École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité
Élodie Paquin, Jolie ballerine
École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges
1er prix:
Isabelle St-Hilaire, Capricieux, ces vers
École secondaire publique De La Salle
2e prix:
Brigitte Delisle, Rencontre brève
École secondaire catholique Garneau
3e prix:
Émilie Bruneau, Silence
École secondaire publique De La Salle
Michelle Winckel, L’hiver
École secondaire publique De La Salle
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