2014 Writers Hall of Fame Writing Winners

Nonfiction
Grades 5/6
Name: Krysta Lawrence
School: Logan-Rogersville
Title: Bullying
Category: Persuasion
Teacher: Beth Muncy

Grades 7/8
Name: Shelby Berry
School: Nixa Jr High
Title: Lucky Sunshine: A Goree Island Tragedy
Category: Creative Nonfiction
Teacher: Tiffany James

Grades 9/10
Name: Madoch Jamroch
School: Stockton
Title: Transcript
Category: Satire
Teacher: Dana Whitesell

Grades 11/12
Name: Shane Burkdoll
School: Stockton
Title: Benefits of the Common
Category: Satire
Teacher: Jesse Fields

Prose
Grades 5/6
Name: Zoey Mueller
School: Springfield Lutheran
Title: Old Navy for Children
Category: Personal Experience Narrative
Teacher: Karen Schaller

Grades 7/8
Name: Morgan Schafer
School: Hickory Hills
Title: Josiphine Gray’s Journal
Category: Journal/Diary Fictional
Teacher: Lisa Brown

Grades 9/10
Name: Lindsey Sims
School: Willard
Title: The Days of Nich O’ Las the Cat
Category: Journal/Diary Fictional
Teacher: Kim Blevins

Grades 11/12
Name: Cady Thomas
School: Spokane
Title: The Preservation of Russell Doebler
Category: Description of a Person
Teacher: Laura Rankin

Long Prose
Grades 5/6
Name: McKenzie Blakey
School: Summit Prep
Title: The Choice
Category: Short Story
Teacher: Sandy Frye

Grades 7/8
Name: Katelyn Eady, Catie Edwards, Keaton Garrett, Maddie Keith, Megan Macdonald, Tony Madden, Abbi Pettit, Calleigh Randles, Quenci Shirk, Eli Slover, Alexis Spangler, Elleigh Spragg, Hope Strausbaugh
School: Logan-Rogersville
Title: Le Bomb
Category: Play Script
Teacher: Rhonda Simon

Grades 9/10
Name: Alexus Richey
School: Willard
Title: The Escape
Category: Short Story
Teacher: Kim Blevins

Grades 11/12
Name: Lori Gott
School: Willard
Title: Some Give Birth to Angels
Category: Short Story
Teacher: Leah Stover

Journalism:
Grades 5/6
Name: Olivia Engelman
School: Inman
Title: Zooming into Instagram
Category: Media Review
Teacher: Paula Sorrell

Grades 7/8
Name: Andrew Pettenger
School: New Covenant
Title: The Monopoly Man vs. Robinhood
Category: Commentary/Opinion Column
Teacher: Mandy Hesemann

Grades 9/10
Name: Camille Price
School: Kickapoo
Title: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Category: Media Review
Teacher: Lori Riemenschneider

Grades 11/12
Name: Daniel Nguyen
School: Central
Title: Holiday Revelations
Category: Commentary/Opinion Column
Teacher: Deborah Gardner

Long Poetry:
Grades 5/6
Name: Millie Richardson
School: Inman
Title: Calypso
Category: Ballad
Teacher: Paula Sorrell

Grades 7/8
Name: Riley Brady
School: Nixa Jr High
Title: Vanished Friend
Category: Long Narrative Poem
Teacher: Karen Haraldson

Grades 9/10
Name: Lilly Allen
School: Stockton
Title: Confessions
Category: Villanelle
Teacher: Dana Whitesell

Grades 11/12
Name: Danielle Finley
School: Kickapoo
Title: This is Before
Category: Long Free Verse Poem
Teacher: Hayley Fraser

Strict Formula Poetry
Grades 5/6
Name: Logan Stoltz
School: Jarrett
Title: 3:33 a.m.
Category: Tanka
Teacher: Kendall Bennett

Grades 7/8
Name: Karen Sharley
School: Macks Creek
Title: Hidden Pictures
Category: Limerick
Teacher: Julie Morris

Grades 9/10
Name: Lilly Allen
School: Stockton
Title: Bipolar Mind
Category: Biopoem
Teacher: Lauren Knutson

Grades 11/12
Name: Joseph Pyle
School: Stockton
Title: At Least I Have Each Other
Category: Tanka
Teacher: Jesse Fields

Other Formula Poetry:
Grades 5/6
Name: Zoe Hembree
School: Carver Middle
Title: Fate
Category: Short Free Verse
Teacher: Emily Seiler

Grades 7/8
Name: Caleb Faulk
School: Nixa Jr. High
Title: Forever
Category: Short Rhymed Poem
Teacher: Kirsten Kooken

Grades 9/10
Name: Dustin Cutbirth
School: Spokane
Title: She was the Lion and I was the Lamb
Category: Short Rhymed
Teacher: Laura Rankin

Grades 11/12
Name: Stephanie Gant
School: Stockton
Title: Unfortunate Freshman
Category: Parody
Teacher: Jesse Fields