Many Lynchburg City Schools student writers were winners at the regional level judging of the 2012 Young Authors Competition.
First-, second- and third-place awards were given for each grade level in each category.
LCS WINNERS
SHORT FICTION
Grade 3
3rd Place: Sammy Hamilton, The Life of a Pencil
Grade 4
1st Place: Julianna Sigler, Marie Goes Bold
Grade 5
1st Place: Meg Gladieux, Listen
Grade 10
1st Place: Elizabeth Hayes, The Child
POETRY
Grade K
1st Place: Maslyn Rogers, Snow
Grade 3
1st Place: Cassie McEntire, My Poems
3rd Place: Oghenechovwe Onovae, My Poems
Grade 4
1st Place: Joshua Patterson, Natural Poems
2nd Place: Armelle Duston, Poems
Grade 5
3rd Place: Ben McCarthy, Bug Poems
Grade 8
1st Place: Diamond Rosser, Untitled
Grade 11
1st Place: Justin Holmes, Paranoid