The Rego Park-based Newtown Literary journal recognized the winners of its Queens Young Authors and Poets contest at the Astoria Historical Society Saturday.
“We are excited to honor the next generation of writers and poets living in Queens,” Tim Frederick, Newtown Literary’s editor, said. “This was the first writing contest in Queens to reach so many parts of the borough and so many ages of Queens youth.”
Winners were selected in both prose and poetry for students in grades 3 to 12.
In the prose category, the tops honors went to: Syeda S. Rahman, Samantha Cavusoglu, Samuel Bachman, Jadie Tome, Jade Deo, Gabriel Cavounis, Satruhon Ramnarayan, Benjamin Levi and Sierra Berkel.
The top honors in the poetry category went to: Eliza Josephson, James Oddy, Claudette Nunziato, Mitali Kasliwal, Nimah Araf, Jasmine Singh, Husna Mirza, Jennifer Chavez and Amy Oliveras.
