Centre County Reads Writing Contest Winners
Collected works in honor of Centre County Reads (CCR) winners, collected from 2014 to current year (missing 2015), kept at the Adult Services desk.
| Format: | Books Print Book |
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| Language: | English |
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State College, PA :
Center for American Literary Studies, Penn State University,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 2023 Giving voice to animals
- Grand Prize:
- The craziest thought /
- by Annie Sidransky ;
- Short fiction :
- Know Inc. /
- by Christina Taheri ;
- Nonfiction:
- Cats & kids : a reflection on what it means to know /
- by Karly Mozdzen ;
- Poetry:
- Potential /
- by Angela Haake
- Under-18:
- The project /
- Elliott Matthews.
- 2022 Sustaining stories
- Grand Prize:
- Self-portrait as unlike a horseshoe crab /
- poem by Talley V. Kayser ;
- Short fiction :
- The perpetrator, the bystander, the Earth /
- by Tiffany Godley ;
- Nonfiction:
- The mountains will be here, always /
- by Grace DePaull ;
- Poetry:
- All dying slowly /
- Nicole Meek
- Under-18:
- Little bird /
- Ayda Bayly.
- 2021 Forms of address
- Grand Prize:
- Out of the woods /
- by Jack Ouligian ;
- Honorable mention:
- Appeals /
- by Sarah Estime ;
- Honorable mention:
- White walls /
- Brooks West.
- 2020 Careful writing
- Grand Prize:
- Love in the time of COVID-19 /
- by K.C. Norton ;
- Fiction:
- The other mothers have left /
- by Nakul Grover ;
- Poetry:
- Memory of my father (with Parkinson's) /
- by John Ouligian ;
- Nonfiction:
- The R word /
- by Brooks West ;
- Under 18:
- A midnight snack /
- by Fiona Combs.
- 2019 Writing the nonhuman
- Grand Prize:
- Drop /
- by Justin Smith ;
- Nonfiction:
- Harper/
- by Chloe Cullen ;
- Poetry:
- The Patron Saint of Shopping Carts /
- by Hannah Inglesby ;
- Fiction:
- In-house /
- by Caroline Tan and
- Tiger Shrine /
- by E.X. (not included) ;
- Under 18:
- Earth's lament /
- by Fiona Combs.
- 2018 Art of protest
- Grand Prize:
- Nail it to a post /
- by Jen Buchan ;
- Nonfiction:
- Pluto /
- by Jason Lee ;
- Poetry:
- Embracing the Dream /
- by Maria James-Thiaw ;
- Fiction:
- Carnivores /
- by Nicole Miyashiro ;
- Under 18:
- Jay Edwards /
- by Jay Edwards.
- 2017 Wanted
- Grand Prize:
- The nobody of the planet /
- by Laura Nejako ;
- Poetry:
- Four connected short poems based on "Wanted" /
- by Marisa Vanness ;
- Fiction:
- God has a plan for me /
- by Amanda Snook
- and
- Petrichor /
- by Justus Berman ;
- Under 18:
- One, two, black /
- by Nora Kamerow.
- 2016 Secret writing
- Grand Prize:
- Sunday's raging hurricane /
- by Elizabeth Hopta ;
- Nonfiction:
- Sisterhood of Spies /
- by Alison Jaenicke ;
- Poetry:
- Watch for the patterns, watch for the wires /
- by Robert Alderman ;
- Fiction:
- I won't keep you /
- by Caitlin Wolper ;
- Under 18:
- Underhand estate /
- by Zinni Nebroski.
- 2015 Beautiful ruin (this year missing)
- Grand Prize:
- Forest for the trees /
- by V. Jo Hsu ;
- Nonfiction:
- Outta joint at the Joint /
- by Cindy Simmons ;
- Poetry:
- The Barra boy /
- by Jessica O'Hara ;
- Fiction:
- The overlooked motel /
- by Caitlin Wolper ;
- Under 18:
- The party tree /
- by Isabel Sicree.
- 2014 Writing the Unknown
- Grand Prize:
- Nobody listened /
- by Nick Miller ;
- Nonfiction:
- My vice-presidential debacle /
- by Laura Dzwonczyk ;
- Poetry:
- An inch of air belongs to itself /
- by Abby Minor ;
- Fiction:
- The sea breeze motel /
- by Max Vanderhyden ;
- Under 18:
- 2568 CE /
- by Abby Peacock.