Student Writing Contest 2010

Students from the Connecticut State University System were invited to participate in a contest judging four different areas of writing: fiction, humor, poetry and non-fiction. Contest judges were Susan Schoenberger, former Hartford Courant reporter and author of the forthcoming novel, A Watershed Year (Guideposts, 2011) for Nonfiction and Fiction and Dr. David Cappella, Professor, English, CCSU, for Poetry. Below are the student winners and honorable mentions from the 2010 competition.

NONFICTION



FICTION

    Winner
    Nancy Antle, SCSU, "Waiting"


POETRY



Alex J. Robinson

is a student at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is majoring in English with a minor in writing, and plans to pursue a career in teaching. In high school he helped edit numerous literary magazines and has participated in statewide poetry readings since 2005.
Read "Berry Season" (PDF)

Angelo Gallo

is a third year undergrad at Southern Connecticut State University studying English education. He is actively involved in the literary magazine Folio and is the recent recipient of an honorable mention in the SCSU Poetry contest.
Read "His English Was Good" (PDF)

Patricia Haggard

is a senior at Eastern Connecticut State University studying English and writing, where her love for poetry began. She has won numerous awards in poetry and has been published in the Eastern Exposure and Joyful Magazine. She has recently won Honorable Mention for an essay in the New Millennium Writings competition. Patricia is now working on a compilation of poetry and short stories with hopes of publication.
Read "Sure" (PDF)

Laura Hayden

"Nesting" is one of sixteen linked essays in Laura's collection Staying Alive: A Love Story. This collection completed her requirements for an MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University in December, 2010. Laura teaches writing at Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, CT and lives in a tiny house with a tiny dog in Windsor Locks.
Read "Nesting" (PDF)

David Sumo Quenah

I was born in West Africa, Liberia. I have fourteen brothers and sisters. Bendu and Michael Fitzgerald adopted me, along with two of my sisters; we arrived in the US 2004 in Granby Connecticut. Throughout High School I been taking English as my second language, with lot of reading, and writing I find the language interesting. I am now a junior at Eastern, major in Business Administration, and minor in Business Information System. This is my first time to enter a writing contest and to actually be honor as one of he winner. I look forward to it as a beginning; it will not be the last.
Read "The Journey Begins" (PDF)

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