Literary Journal To Fete Contest Winners
The borough-based Literary Journal, Newtown Literary, has announced the winners of its Queens Young Authors and Poets and Authors Contest and will hold a ceremony to recognize the writers and poets this Saturday, June 21 in Astoria.
Last fall, the Queens-focused literary journal, Newtown Literary, invited young writers and poets to use their creative minds to submit to the Queens Young Authors and Poets Contest, a borough-wide writing contest that welcomes prose and poetry from students in third through 12th-grade.
This Saturday the journal will celebrate the winners of the contest at the Greater Astoria Historical Society, located at 35-20 Bdwy.
“We are excited to honor the next generation of writers and poets living in Queens, Newtown Literary editor Tim Frederick said. “This was the first writing contest in Queens to reach so many parts of the borough and so many ages of Queens youth. So much has been said and written about the growing Queens literary community and we hope, through this contest, to lay the foundation for the literary community last generations.”
The winners of the contest, by grade, writing category and with title piece were:
Prose, grades three to five;
1st. Syeda S. Rahman, “Generation On.”
2nd. Samantha Cavusoglu, “The Golden Locket.”
3rd. Samuel Bachman, “The Dif of Destruction.”
Honorable Mention. Jadie Tome, “The Case of the Missing Money.”
– Poetry, grades three to five.
1st. Eliza Josephson, “Poems By ECJ.”
2nd. James Oddy, “Poems By James Oddy.”
3rd. Claudette Nunziato, “Watch the World.”
Prose, grades six to eight.
1st. Jade Deo, “From April ’til June.”
2nd. Gabriel Cavounis, “Salvation.”
3rd. Satruhon Ramnarayan, “Fresh Start.”
Honorable Mention. Benjamin
Levi, “The Night That Changed Lives.”
Poetry, grades six to eight.
1st. Mitali Kasliwal, “Three Poems.”
2nd. Nimad Araf, “Deep Within.”
3rd. Jasmine Singh, “Thoughts of an Amateur.”
Honorable Mention. Hunsa Mirza, “I Will Be the Death of You.”
Prose, grades 9-12
1st Sierra Berkel “Footprints in the Snow.”
Poetry, grades 9-12.
1st. Jennifer Chavez, “Bloody Bandages and Sunday Masses.”
2nd. Amy Oliveras, “Empty Promises.”
