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This list was compiled by John J. Mutter, Jr.
Fiction
1-2 Grade Group
First Place – Holly Gee for, “Raining Cats and Dogs.” Second Place – Mila Cook for, “The Rainbow Horses.” Third Place – Gavin Springborn for, “The Crazy Mac and Cheese and Dog Story.” Honorable mentions – Bailey Wild for “The Snowmen That Came to Life.” And Jayden Schmidt for “The First Snow.”
3-4 Grade Group
First Place – Delaney Pensis for, “Crooked.” Second Place – Amelia Breitenfeldt for, “Stella and the Cactus With Eyes.” Third Place – Grace Ford for “Merda: A Cinderella Story.” Honorable mentions – Grace Ford for, “A Little Water.” And Grace Ford for, “A Turtle Myth.”
5-8 Grade Group
First Place – Jill Guenther for, “Dark Magic is Worth It.” Second Place – Rachael Carroll for, “The Forgetfulness of Sydney.” Third Place – Rachael Carroll for, “The Mystery Box.” Honorable mentions – Wyatt Bratz for “Jeffery’s Extraordinary Adventures.” And Landon Meronk for, “The
Football Game.”
9-12 Grade Group
First Place – Lily Guenther for, “Into Thin Air.” Second Place – Fiona Hoffman for, “The Taxi Ride.” Third Place – Fiona Hoffman for, “The Chase.” Honorable mentions – Ashlee Corn for, “No Going Back.” And Jaida Hill for “Face of Black.”
Poetry
1-2 Grade Group
First Place – Ellie Ford for, “Tadpole.” Second Place – Ellie Ford for, “Mexico.” Third Place – Brixon Mikle for, “Sensory Poem.” Honorable mentions – Carter Huntington for, Sensory Poem and Cayson Allison for, “Sensory Poem.”
3-4 Grade Group
First Place – Grace Ford for, “A Hero.” Second Place – Grace Ford for, “Opposites.” Third Place – Grace Ford for “On the Same Day in March.” Honorable mentions – Grace Ford for, “Morning Girl, Star Boy.” And Grace Ford for, “Freedom.”
5-8 Grade Group
First Place – Wyatt Bratz for, “My Friend Dave.” Second Place – Wyatt Bratz for, “Life in the Country.” Third Place – Josiah Ford for, “Wisconsin.” Honorable mentions – Josiah Ford for, “Stingray.” Tucker Hischke for, “The Road of Life.” And Jill Guenther for, “Dandelions.”
9-12 Grade Group
First Place – Allysia Cox for, “Uncle’s Silence.” Second Place – Natalie Ahlers for, “LGTBQ+ and Suicide.” Third Place – Cedar Frechette for, “Sacred Land.” Honorable mentions – Blaize Fernandez for, “Old Dog.” Mariah Fish for, “Stuck.” Anthony Perez-Tucker for, “ImagistImagine.” George Bruette for, “Left Field.” Grace Stuewer for, “If I Were in an Eighties Movie.”
Nonfiction
1-2 Grade Group
First Place – Ellie Ford for, “Where I Would Live.” Second Place – Evelyn Hegewald for, “The Karner Blue Butterfly.” Third Place – Madeline Gueths for, “The Dog.” Honorable mentions – Eden Wallender for, “How to decorate a Christmas Tree.” And Brooklyn Pownell for, “How to Wrap a Present.”
3-4 Grade Group
First Place – Grace Ford for, “Charlotte’s Web Book Review.” Second Place – Grace Hegewald for, “Leatherback Sea Turtle.” Third Place – Grace Ford for, “Rome.”
5-8 Grade Group
First Place – Jill Guenther for, “Vultures.” Second Place – Rachael Carroll for, “Global Citizenship.” Third Place – Izabella Robbins for, “Monsters.”
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 23, 2021.
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 kids.
The public is more than welcome to attend this family event, which lasts about an hour.
