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The Leopold Writing Program is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Aldo Leopold Writing Contest. Students from around New Mexico in Grades 6-12 entered this year’s contest. The First Place essayists in three grade categories each receive a $500 cash prize, and the Overall Best Essay Winner receives an additional $250 award.
Dylan Como-Mosconi, an eighth-grade student at Mandela International Magnet School, Santa Fe, won the First Place Award in Grade Category 8-9, and was also the winner of the David E. Stuart Humanitarian Prize for Overall Best Essay. Honorable Mention award winners are Charles Chapman, Grade 8 at Mandela International Magnet School, Santa Fe; and Karen Zhang, Grade 9 at Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque.
Nighthawk Press (2020, 177 pp.)
Conversations beginning with Where are you from? don t interest these authors, longtime Taoseños Richard and Annette Rubin. They have moved beyond worrying about who is Native, born here or carpetbagger, and after 50 years in New Mexico working as physician (Richard), educators and community activists, the couple affirm rather, that identity includes consciousness as well as origin facts.
Usefulness, then, is their theme, and this honest work is about sharing the fruits of one s labor with community. Or, as Rumi is quoted in an epigraph: The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is ready.