2010 South Carolina Writers Workshop
High School Junior and Senior Writing Competition
The South Carolina Writers Workshop High School Junior and Senior Writing Competition is open to any junior or senior enrolled in any South Carolina public, private or homeschool. Prizes are awarded in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction.
The 2010 competition brought in 242 submissions from 199 students. Thirty-two schools from across the state participated in this year's competition, 17 for the first time. Thank you to all the teachers who encouraged their students in this opportunity.
The SCWW Board of Directors congratulates the following winners of the 2010 High School Junior and Senior Writing Competition.
Fiction
1st Place – Austen Hall, Learning When to Bluff, SC Governor’s School of Arts and Humanities
2nd Place – Lukas Hadtstein, Garden Gnome, SCGSAH
Honorable Mention – Madeline Welsh, Judging Because of Insecurity, Ben Lippen School
Iehyun Chang, we raised our flags towards their guns, Trinity Collegiate
David Russell, Scout’s Honor, SCGSAH
Nonfiction
1st Place - Victoria Sharpe, Six Things I Don't Know, SCGSAH
2nd Place - Jake Ross, Love and Loathing in the Waffle House, SCGSAH
Honorable Mention - Anna Faison, The Space Between, SCGSAH
Emily Alverson, Waste(d), SCGSAH
Wynne Hungerford, Bronze Age: A Timeline, SCGSAH
Poetry
1st Place - Elizabeth McClure, Trap, SCGSAH
2nd Place - Victoria Sharpe, Playing Pirates, SCGSAH
Honorable Mention - Megan Lee Dunbar, Music, SCGSAH
Megan Gallaghue, August, SCGSAH
Jermaine Simpson, When Boys Leave, SCGSAH
Judges
Fiction - Idella Bodie's 24 books include The Secret of Telfair Inn, The Ghost in the Capitol, Mystery of the Pirate's Treasure, Trouble at Star Fort, Stranded!, and The Mystery of Edisto Island and biographies of the American Revolution. The Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution honored her for this series. South Aiken High School has a writing award in her honor. Her Alma Mater, Columbia College, presented her the Wil Lou Gray Outstanding Educator Award, and Toastmasters, the International Communication Award. South Carolina Library gave her a lifetime membership for the preservation of South Carolina's literary heritage. Her works appear in Cricket and Guideposts. Her book, Rachel's Story, set during the colonial period when her family comes down the Great Wagon Train road to settle in what will become South Carolina, was published in 2008. She is currently working on a book for young readers on The Trail of Tears.
Nonfiction - Trilby Plants' mother read her Gulliver's Travels when she was five. That began a lifelong love of the written and spoken word. Plants, a lifelong storyteller shares her love of reading and writing with others as a teacher and published author of nonfiction, fiction and poetry. Her two adult children and their spouses are avid readers and her young granddaughter is already fascinated by books. Plants lives in Murrells Inlet with her husband - where she writes and plays golf in her spare time.
Poetry - Gene Fehler's tenth book, Never Blame the Umpire, a middle grade prose novel was published in 2009 by Zonderkidz, the children's division of Zondervan. His young adult free verse novel, Beanball, (Clarion 2008) was named the 2008 Best Book in the Grades 7-12 Novels category by Society of School Librarians International and is a 2009-2010 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee and a 2008 KSRA Young Adult Book Nominee. His book of baseball poems, Change-Up, illustrated by Donald Wu, was published in 2009 by Clarion.
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