IATE Poetry and Prose Contest Winners

Great news!  Again, students at Hinsdale Central have been recognized as excellent writers by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English.   Students were nominated by their current English teachers (I listed the English teacher in parentheses below.)  First place winners will be published in the Fall Illinois Teachers Bulletin. Congratulations to all winners!

Srinivas Kaza, Prose First Place, “Suyfitas” (Mr. Friebel)

Brandon Weller, Prose First Place, “The Top Ten Reasons Why I would be the First to Die in a Zombie Apocolypse” (Mr. Friebel)

Jack McGowen, Prose Runner Up, “Twindependence” (Mr. Friebel)

Steven Chun, Prose Honorable Mention, “Gifted” (Mr. Friebel)

Satyajit Krishnan, Prose Runner Up, “Ignoramus” (Mr. Bhatti)

Samrita Sawhney, Prose Runner Up, “January 3” (Mr. Bhatti)

Morgan Fitzgerald, Prose First Place, “Skinny: A Family Tradition” (Mrs. Burrell)

Caroline Sudduth, Prose First Place, “(Re)reading Myself”(Mrs. Burrell)

Madison Wagner, Prose First Place, “Lost and Confused”(Mrs. Burrell)

Sylvana Caruso, Prose Runner Up, “I’m Not That Innocent: Why Good People Say Bad Things About Pop Music”(Mrs. Burrell)

Kathryn Cua, First Place Prose, “Lost in Translation” (Mrs. Fehrman)

Kathryn Cua, First Place Prose, “Slut-Shaming and the Purity Myth” (Mrs. Fehrman)

Alexandra Solovyev, First Place Prose, “Purgatory” (Mrs. Fehrman)

Paxton Gammie, Honorable Mention Prose, “When I Refused to Wear Shoes” (Mrs. Fehrman)