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Winning Students in the 2022 George Putz Memorial Student Writing Contest
Fiction
1-2 Grade Group
First Place – Kayleigh Withrow for, “A Haunted House Tour.” Second Place – Wesley Rush for, “Tour of a Haunted House in Florida.” Third Place – Kanen Oreskovic-Cotter for, “Tour of a Haunted House on a Sunday Night.” Honorable Mentions – Aaron Hyzer for, Dragon Breath.” and Ramona Meidam for, “Tour of a Haunted House on a Spooky Night.”
3-4 Grade Group
First Place – Elizabeth Schlais for, “A Janitor’s Dream Come True.” Second Place – Amelia Breitenfeldt for, “Lydia’s Hawaiian Adventure.” Third Place – Kynzlee Arndt for, “The Magic Gift.” Honorable Mentions to, Maia Meier for, “The Elemental Breakdown.” and Peyton Warren for, “My Birthday!!.”
5-8 Grade Group
First Place – Carson Kroening for, “Little Wolf’s Journey.” Second Place – Jill Guenther for, “The Elevator.” Third Place – Wyatt Bratz for, “Grounded.” Honorable Mention – Gavin Steigerwald for, “Elastiboy’s Stand.”
9-12 Grade Group
First Place – Francesca Ullmer for, “Bear, or Dog?” Second Place – Simone Perez for, “She, Him, & I.” Third Place – Cody Wilber for, “Willies Fry Bread.” Honorable Mentions – Julia Hahn for, “Race Against the Frost.” and Natalie Ahlers for, “The Boy Who Wished He Wasn’t Human.”
Poetry
1-2 Grade Group
First Place – Aaron Hyzer for, “Sensory Poem.” Second Place – Hyla Pozorski for, “A Day With My Dog.” Third Place – Lela Thiel for, “Sensory Poem.” Honorable Mentions – Kinslee Wright for, “Sensory Poem.” and Hailey Altenhofen for, “Sensory Poem.”
3-4 Grade Group
First Place – Sonya Pozorski for, “Lost a Tire.” Second Place – Elizabeth Schlais for, “Summer Time.” Third Place – Abbagehl Miller for, “Ice Cream Time.” Honorable Mention – Amelia Breitenfeldt for, “My Bunny Friend.”
5-8 Grade Group
First Place – Claire Wegner for, “In My Mind.” Second Place – Grace Pensis for, “At the Breaking of Dawn.” Third Place – Erin Krueger for, “Talk to Me.” Honorable Mentions – Erica Corn for, “The Silence.” and Kiona Kahalewaike for, “Flower/Fleur.”
9-12 Grade Group
First Place – Blaize Fernandez for, “The Highway View.” Second Place – Cedar Frechette for, “Beauty.” Third Place – Jaycee Braddock-Madosh for, “Red Holes.” Honorable Mentions – Graciana Escalante for, “Ode to the World.” and Jacie Chevalier for, “Ode to.”
Nonfiction
1-2 Grade Group
First Place – Grayden Hein for, “My Beast.” Second Place – Kinslee Wright for, “My Beast.” Four students tied for Third Place – Hailey Altenhofen for, “My Beast.” Isaiah Rekoske for, “My Beast.” Payton Prodell for, “My Beast.” Henry Nooyen for, “My Beast.” Honorable Mentions – Jade Frome for, “My Beast.” Mitchell Engel for, “My Beast.” Braxtyn Naparalla for, “My Beast.”
3-4 Grade Group
First Place – Kaylee Welke for, “Getting Over my Fear of Water.” Second Place – Elizabeth Schlais for, “About Dogs.” Third Place – Emma Pecha for, “All About Ostriches.”
5-8 Grade Group
First Place – Jill Guenther for, “Pangaea.” Second Place – Grace Pensis for, “I Wish I was on my Phone Instead of writing this Paper.” Third Place – Kierstyn Halstead for, “Alcohol Hurts.” Honorable Mentions – John Kim for, “Letter to Author.” John Kim for, A Good American.” and Josiah Kuehl for, “To Be a Good American.”
9-12 Grade Group
First Place – Francesca Ullmer for, “Counted Cross-stitch.” Second Place – Francesca Ullmer for, “The Sunrise.” Third Place – Dugan Webster for, “The Goodness of Failure.”
Attention teachers, parents, students: The Shawano Area Writers will be handing out Certificates of Achievements, cash prizes, and copies of a current Writer’s Digest Magazine to the winning students of the George Putz Memorial Writing Contest at the Mielke Arts Center, N5649 N. Airport Road, Shawano, at 1:00 p.m. on May 15, 2022. All children attending can sign up for door prizes, which are autographed books for each grade group (you do not have to be a winning student writer to sign up for a door prize). Teachers can also sign up for a door prize book. Also of importance: There will be a large bowl of candy for the kids.
The public is more than welcome to attend this family event, which lasts about an hour.
