Writing Contests
| Parkview High Writing Contest Winners 2006-2007 |
Contest Information,
Links, and Contacts
2007-2008
Voice of Democracy Competition: November
1, 2007
Guidelines: 3-5 minute
speech on “Why I Am an American Patriot.” Submit speech on a cassette tape
with a print copy and entry form attached. If you need help with the tape,
see a Media Specialist or Ms. Huie! Someone from the local VFW post will
pick up the tape, so any student who is interested needs to let Ms. Huie
know by the October 21 so that she can arrange to have the entry delivered.
The national VFW awards numerous cash awards; the top prize is a $30,000
scholarship.
PHS Fall Poetry/Art Contest: November
5, 2007
Guidelines: Submit
three copies of your poetry with an entry form; forms are available in LA
classrooms. Cash Prizes!!!!! In each grade level!!!!!! First prize in
each grade level is $25; second prize is $15; third prize is $10.
Reflections:
www.georgiapta.org/reflections.html
Topic: I Can Make a Difference By”
Poetry, Prose, Photography, Art, Dance,
Music, Film
We do not have the dates from
the local PTSA, but expect the deadline to be early October!
Being an American Essay Contest:
December 3, 2007
Guidelines: 3300
character (not word!) essay on the following topic: What civic value(s) do
you believe are most essential to being an American, and how can you
personally put these values into practice? To support this personal
response, reference a Founding document as well as a figure from American
history exemplifying the civic value(s). First prize--$5000!
Guidelines: Essays
should be no longer than 3300 characters including spaces, which is
approximately 500 words. Students in grades 9-12 may participate. Essays
must be submitted by a teacher sponsor online at
www.BeinganAmerican.org.
Letters about Authors
Guidelines: Students
write a letter to an author (living or dead) about how that author’s work
has affected the student’s life. Sponsored by the Library of Congress, the
contest is judged locally, with local winners sent on for national
competition. I don’t have all the information for this year’s contest, but
the deadline will probably be late November or early December.
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards:
Information
will be posted online in October 2007. This is a great contest for seniors
who can put together a writing portfolio; however, students in any grade may
enter in the individual categories. Recognition in this contest is
prestigious. Go to the website at
www.scholastic.com or
www.artandwriting.org for more information. Contest categories include
dramatic script, poetry, journalism, science fiction, humor, memoir, and
other composition genres. There is an entry fee.
Georgia Poetry Society Contests for
Youth Poetry: Deadline January 24, 2008
Guidelines: poetry,
maximum of 32 lines; open to students grades 9-12. Poetry must be original,
unpublished student work.
Manuscript specifications:
All entries must be sent from the school, so if you want to enter, have your
poetry to Ms. Huie by January 24, 2008. Poems must be typed, 12-point TNR,
and not illustrated. Submit two copies of the poems, one without any author
information; the copy with identification should be attached to the entry
form. The entry form must be signed by a sponsoring teacher. For more
information, see
www.georgiapoetrysociety.org/youth_contest.htm. GPS reserves rights to
the poem for publication in its anthology; if your poem is not selected for
the anthology, rights revert to you!
Georgia Perimeter College: Deadline
January 25, 2008
Guidelines:
Poetry, essay, and fiction submissions accepted. Poetry may be 8-40 lines;
fiction and essay no longer than 1000 words.
Manuscript specificiations:
Each entry must be typed, double-spaced, 12-point TNR font. Students must
also attach a completed entry form with signed publication release for GPC.
(Entry forms available in Trailer 7.) Manuscripts will not be returned.
Deadline: January 25,
2008 to GPC; January 23, 2008 to Ms. Huie, Room 10.103.
NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing:
Deadline for nomination February 1, 2008
Guidelines: Parkview
may nominate four juniors for this award. Students send samples of “best
writing” (no more than ten typed, double-spaced pages) and write an
impromptu theme on an assigned theme.
River of Words: Deadline February
15, 2008
Guidelines:
poetry no longer than 32 lines on the
theme of watersheds. (Basically, anything about water—if a student writes a
good poem using water as a metaphor for the family that nurtures and
supports him, it could be a winner!) This contest also recognizes art and
photography related to the theme.
Manuscript specifications:
see
www.riverofwords.org
Deadline:
February 15, 2008.
Leslie Walker Memorial Writing
Contest: February 15, 2008
Guidelines:
Any genre, no longer than 1000 words about
a place. Best works will describe places in ways that help the reader
understand the ways the place’s past influences the present, help the reader
understand how traditions are changing for that place, or help the reader
imagine the sensations of the place. All entries must be submitted by your
teacher; each teacher may submit up to twenty student works. Go to the web
site of the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project for entry forms and more
information.
Georgia Council of Teachers of
English Writing Awards
Teachers who are GCTE members
may submit up to five entries, no more than two from any student. Works may
be poetry or prose, 1200 word maximum length. Selected works will be
published in GCTE’s publication, Mindscapes.
Manuscript
specifications: 12 pt.s font, TNR. Entry
form required. (If you do not have the form, see Ms. Huie in late spring.)
Writing Contest Winners 2006-2007
National Contests
NCTE
umbia Scholastic Press Association Awards
Pause Silver Medalist
NCTE Writing Awards
Ting
Gou
Nicole Nation
Cathy Vu
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards of 2007
Shalini Ramachandran
River of Words
Shalini Ramachandran
National Finalist
State Contests
GCTE Writing Awards
Taylor Chastain
Karen Cheng
Feven Getaneh
Sonia Liaw
Rebekah Prince
Shalini Ramachandran
Courtney Reed
Amy Shields
Georgia PTSA Reflections
Georgia Poetry Society Youth Poetry Contest
Georgia River of Words
Metropolitan Atlanta Contests
Clark-Atlanta University Writers Competition
Shalini Ramachandran
First Place, Fiction
Zane Blanton
Honorable Mention, Fiction
Georgia Perimeter College Literary Arts Competition
Ting Gou
Shalini Ramachandran
Bethany Weiler
Karen Cheng
Taylor Chastain
Katie Sarver
County Contests
Reflections
Shalini Ramachandran
11th grade
Young Georgia Authors Writing Competition
Caroline Bass
10th grade
Voice of Democracy Essay/Speaking Contest
Jessica Drun
First Prize, VFW post 5255, Lawrenceville, GA
School Contestsh
Sanderlin
de Honorable Mention: Shalini Ramachandran,
Candice Moore, Ting Gou
Reflections School Winners
Senior Shalini Ramachandran
Sophomore Sung Hyong
Pause Poetry Contest
Grand Prizes:
First prize Ting
Gou “Harvest”
Second prize Shalini
Ramachandran “The Duet”
Third prize Lisa
Xu “metaporphology”
Grade-level winners
9th Grade:
First prize James
McDowell “Cold Soup on a Saturday Night”
Second prize Daniel
Warner “Freedom”
Third prize Sayan
Chatterjee “I am From”
Honorable Mention
Sayan Chatterjee “i live in bookland”
Amy Shields “I Am”
Cady Staggs “God’s Blind Spot”
10th Grade:
First prize Taylor
Chastain untitled
Second prize Aimee
Taylor “Can You Handle It?”
Third prize Norma
Yanez “No More Green Pastures”
Honorable Mention
Libby Lukens “No, I’m Not a Hot Shot”
Clayton Wilkin “Teaching of the Young”
Yayu Zhong
“Heritage”
11th Grade:
First
prize Farhan Kamili “A Lesson in the Art
of Language”
Second prize
Farhan Kamili “Sunset”
Third prize
Tiffany Spidle “Loneliness”
Honorable Mention
Arthur Ganger “The Watcher”
Arthur Ganger “Love”
Mara Giordano “Change”
12th Grade:
First prize Ting
Gou “Harvest”
Second prize Lisa
Xu “metamorphology”
Third prize Shalini
Ramachandran “The Duet”
Honorable Mention
Ting Gou “In the Summer”
Charity Phelps
“Growing”
Shalini Ramachandran “To Mom”
National Contests
NCTE
Pause
Columbia Scholastic Press Association Awards
Pause Silver Medalist
NCTE Writing Awards
Ting
Gou
Nicole Nation
Cathy Vu
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards of 2007
Shalini Ramachandran
River of Words
Shalini Ramachandran
National Finalist
State Contests
GCTE Writing Awards
Taylor Chastain
Karen Cheng
Feven Getaneh
Sonia Liaw
Rebekah Prince
Shalini Ramachandran
Courtney Reed
Amy Shields
Georgia PTSA Reflections
Georgia Poetry Society Youth Poetry Contest
Georgia River of Words
Metropolitan
Atlanta Contests
Clark-Atlanta University Writers Competition
Shalini Ramachandran
First Place, Fiction
Zane Blanton
Honorable Mention, Fiction
Georgia Perimeter College Literary Arts Competition
Ting Gou
Shalini Ramachandran
Bethany Weiler
Karen Cheng
Taylor Chastain
Katie Sarver
Young Georgia Authors Writing Competition
County Contests
Reflections
Shalini Ramachandran
11th grade
Young Georgia Authors Writing Competition
Caroline Bass
10th grade
Voice of Democracy Essay/Speaking Contest
Jessica Drun
First Prize, VFW post 5255, Lawrenceville, GA
Reflections school winners
Senior
Shalini Ramachandran
Junior
Sophomore Sung Hyong
Freshman
Pause Poetry Contest
Grand Prizes:
First prize Ting
Gou “Harvest”
Second prize Shalini
Ramachandran “The Duet”
Third prize Lisa
Xu “metaporphology”
Grade-level winners
9th Grade:
First prize James
McDowell “Cold Soup on a Saturday Night”
Second prize Daniel
Warner “Freedom”
Third prize Sayan
Chatterjee “I am From”
Honorable Mention
Sayan
Chatterjee “i live in bookland”
Amy
Shields “I Am”
Cady
Staggs “God’s Blind Spot”
10th Grade:
First prize Taylor
Chastain untitled
Second prize Aimee
Taylor “Can You Handle It?”
Third prize Norma
Yanez “No More Green Pastures”
Honorable Mention
Libby
Lukens “No, I’m Not a Hot Shot”
Clayton
Wilkin “Teaching of the Young”
Yayu
Zhong “Heritage”
11th Grade:
First prize
Farhan Kamili “A Lesson in the Art
of Language”
Second prize Farhan
Kamili “Sunset”
Third prize Tiffany
Spidle “Loneliness”
Honorable Mention
Arthur
Ganger “The Watcher”
Arthur
Ganger “Love”
Mara
Giordano “Change”
12th Grade:
First prize Ting
Gou “Harvest”
Second prize Lisa Xu
“metamorphology”
Third prize Shalini
Ramachandran “The Duet”
Honorable Mention
Ting
Gou “In the Summer”
Charity
Phelps “Growing”
Shalini
Ramachandran “To Mom”
Parkview High School Writing Contest Winners 2005-2006
National Contests
NCTE
Pause excellent rating
Columbia Scholastic Press Association Awards (for work published in Pause )
Jane Le certificate of merit for photography
Brandon Garrett first place, humor
NCTE Writing Awards
Amanda Brouillette
Megan Brunning
Shanee Toledano
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards of 2006
Sauvik Das Gold Key, Writing Portfolio
National Peace Essay Contest
Cody Nichol first place, Georgia
River of Words
Ting Gou national finalist
State Contests
GCTE Writing Awards
Jessica Drun
Kristy Gao
Grace Ho
Maylene Xie
Georgia PTSA Reflections
Shalini Ramachandran second place, 11 th grade literature division, Georgia
Georgia Poetry Society Youth Poetry Contest
Ting Gou
Brenda Luo
Turner South “My South” Poetry Contest
Anna Ofsa
Metropolitan Atlanta Contests
Clark-Atlanta University Writers Competition
Ting Gou first place fiction
Kristy Gao second place fiction
Shalini Ramachandran third place fiction
Maylene Xie second place long poetry
Georgia Perimeter College Literary Arts Competition
Ting Gou first place, poetry
Shalini Ramachandran first place, essay; first place, fiction
Maylene Xie second place, fiction; third place, poetry
Brenda Luo second place, essay
Parkview High School outstanding high school
County Contests
Gwinnett County Library To Kill a Mockingbird Cover Contest
Sakurako Stephens first place
Young Georgia Authors' Writing Competition
Brenda Luo county winner, 10 th grade
School Contests
Laws of Life
Maylene Xie school winner
Kelsie Royal 9 th grade winner
Sheena Varghese 11 th grade winner
Reflections local winners
Courtney Reed 9 th grade winner
Maylene Xie 10 th grade winner
Shalini Ramachandran 11th grade winner
Pause Poetry Contest
Ting Gou, Grand Prize
Carlye Norton, first and third place, senior division
David Routon, second place, senior division
Ting Gou, first and second, junior division
Shalini Ramachandran, third, junior division
Brenda Luo, first place, sophomore division
Ian Nurse, second place, sophomore division
Anna Ofsa, third place, sophomore division
Caroline Bass, first place, freshman division
Shelby Flowe, second place, freshman division
Lindsay Murray, third place, freshman division
