The Rotary Club of Summit County has announced the winners of is annual high school short story and poetry contests, which are designed to encourage creative literacy among students. The prizes for first, second and third places were $250, $150 and $100, respectively.
Short story contest
Maggie Butler, home-school student, “The Thought of Plummeting from an Impossible Height”
Poetry contest
Sam Burke, Snowy Peaks, “Mascne” and Maleena Mero, Summit High School, “Waves” (tie)
Maggie Butler, home-school student, “Sisyphus”
A special poetry award also was given to students in Karin Mitchell’s ninth grade class including Logan Charles, TJ Clawson, Sammy Crawford, Grace Gibson, Tarn Ihnken, Scarlet Neustaedter, Jacob Singleton and Sienna Sussman for “So much depends upon … ,” which was inspired by William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow.”