Winners in the 2024 Student Writing Contest

                                                                 Fiction                                                                 1-2 Grade Group Saylor Prey – 1st Place for, “The Lizard Who Wanted New Scales.” Cole Schlais – 2nd Place for, “Finding Joey.” Cole Schlais – 3rd Place for, “Matches.” Trell Raddant – H.M. for, “The Dark City.” Jacob Altenhoffen – H. M. for, “Fractured Fairy Tale.”                                                                                                                                3-4 Grade Group…

2023 George Putz Memorial Student Writing Contest Winners

Congratulations to all our winners! Fiction                                   1-2 1st Place – Leviyon Meverden 2nd Place – William Schlais 3rd Place – Decker Scholl H. M. – Sawyer Huntington H.M. – Ella Schmidt                                3-4 1st Place – Zach Curran 2nd Place – Elizabeth Schlais 3rd Place – Skewnik Waukechon-Reiter H.M – Charlotte Johnson H.M. –…

2022 Student Contest Winners

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.”…

SAW Expanded History

  Compiled By John J. Mutter, Jr.                        The Shawano Area Writers (SAW) began meeting as a group on January 20, 1966. At one time the membership reached 41 members. Through the years SAW has produced 13 anthologies: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1982, 1984, and 1988. And also a calendar for 1988, 1990, 1991, 1996,…

Fiction and Nonfiction – what can I write about?

By: John Mutter              First of all, some students may be confused as to what is fiction and what is nonfiction. Let’s get that cleared up right away. Fiction is something that is fake, made up, or not true. Nonfiction is something that is not fake, it’s true and really happened. So let’s give some…