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$1,000 Winners this Week!!! IMPAC-CSU Competition
**Awarded at Southern Connecticut State University, Monday, April 23, 2007**
Middlesex Prose Jennifer Angier Middletown Adult Education "Passing Through" Middlesex Poetry Elizabeth Santovasi Old Saybrook High School "Banksy's Girl" New Haven Prose Kathleen Riedel Pomperaug High School "The Flame"
New Haven Poetry Maya Polan Education Center for the Arts "Unruly Sonnets Written in a Midwestern Key"
**Awarded at Eastern Connecticut State University, Tuesday, April 24, 2007** New London Prose Valerie Doughty Ledyard High School "M'Athair Fhin"
New London Poetry Nicole Rubin Norwich Free Academy "Pineapple" Windham Prose Kianne Gaylor Woodstock Academy "Second Chances"
Windham Poetry Hilary Osborn Arts at the Capitol Theater "Music Is A Slut"
**Awarded at Western Connecticut State University, Thursday, April 26, 2007**
Fairfield Prose Lindsay Kirkham Masuk High School in Monroe "Grandma's Flowers"
Fairfield Poetry Brianna Halek Brookfield High School "The Greatest Act"
Litchfield Prose Emma Gaedeke, Northwestern Regional High School, "Beyond The Bench"
Litchfield Poetry Chelsea Macary, Wamogo Regional High School, "Through Eyes Bigger Than She"
**Awarded at Central Connecticut State University, April 30, 2007**
Hartford Prose Anna Gallo The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts "Plan Mortem"
Hartford Poetry Sasha Debevec-McKenney, The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, "The Last Time I Played Softball, And the Last Day I Saw Your Face"
Tolland Prose Melanie Lieberman Rockville High School "Mashed Potato By and My Fifth Grade Romance" Tolland Poetry Hannah Ojard Rockville High School "Aunt Karen"
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COMPLETE LIST OF 2007 COUNTY FINALISTS
Windham County Prose Kianne Gaylor - Woodstock Academy Nina Joy - Woodstock Academy Candace Powers - Woodstock Academy Alyssia Cinami - Woodstock Academy Chris McGinn - Woodstock Academy Jessica Burbach - Woodstock Academy Kelsey Cunningham - Woodstock Academy Amanda Carpenter - Woodstock Academy Lydia Jones - Arts at the Capitol Theater, Willimantic
Windham County Poetry
Cody Gondyke - Arts at the Capitol Theater, Willimantic Alexandra Mancini -Killingly High School Shelby Rhode - Arts at the Capitol Theater, Willimantic Allison Stan - Woodstock Academy Kate Paul -Arts at the Capitol Theater, Willimantic Jonathan Trudeau - Woodstock Academy Cheryl Ann Lawrence - Killingly High School Cecily Iturrino - Woodstock Academy Hilary Osborn - Arts at the Capitol Theater, Willimantic
Tolland County Poetry
Hannah Ojard - Rockville High School Heather Faherty, -Rockville High School Samantha Franchini - E.O. Smith High School, Mansfield Hillary Federico - RHAM High School, Hebron Aubrey Haboush - E.O. Smith High School, Mansfield Tina Kroll - E.O. Smith High School, Mansfield Molly LaFlesh - Rockville High School Mara Dauphin - Rockville High School Hillary Federico - RHAM High School, Hebron Kevin Narowski - E.O. Smith High School, Mansfield Gabrielle Campiformio - E.O. Smith High School, Mansfield Shakia Perez - Rockville High School Rose Obedzinski - Rockville High School Rebecca Vanderleest - Rockville High School
Tolland County Prose
Melanie Lieberman - Rockville High School Miles Wilkerson - E.O. Smith High School, Mansfield Katie Lonsdale - Rockville High School Carolyn Freney - Rockville High School Bowen Weyes - E.O. Smith High School, Mansfield Amy Grigg - Rockville High School Rachel Norman - Rockville High School Jamie Suchecki - Rockville High School David Rousseau - Rockville High School
New Haven County Prose Jared Gimbel - Co-Op High School, New Haven Kristina Bystrak - Tyrell Middle School, Wolcott Kathleen Riedel - Pomperaug High School, Middlebury Kieman Norman - Guilford High School Diana Flar - Wolcott High School Jessica Sichau - Wolcott High School Samantha Cunningham - Education Center for the Arts, New Haven Molly Herold - Education Center for the Arts, New Haven
New Haven County Poetry
Bianca Czaderna - Westover School, Middlebury Laura Winnick - Hamden High School Una Casey - Education Center for the Arts, New Haven Molly Rubin - Education Center for the Arts, New Haven Maya Jolan - Education Center for the Arts, New Haven Judith Wilson - Westover School, Middlebury Errin Gaulin - Education Center for the Arts, New Haven Helena Tiedman - Westover School, Middlebury Althea Brown - Westover School, Middlebury Jacqueline Siefert - Westover School, Middlebury Catherine Taylor - Westover School, Middlebury Alice Lloyd - Westover School, Middlebury
Middlesex County Poetry
Erin Good - Valley Regional High School, Deep River Eric Daniel Kelly - Conginchaug Regional High School, Durham Kelsey Webb - Old Saybrook Senior High School Josh King - Old Saybrook Senior High School Johnathan Sykes - Old Saybrook Senior High School Megan Cronin - Old Saybrook Senior High School Kate Gallagher - Old Saybrook Senior High School Theresa Meotti - Old Saybrook Senior High School Carolyn Wilke - Old Saybrook Senior High School Elizabeth Santoraski - Old Saybrook Senior High School Chris Walonski - Old Saybrook Senior High School
Middlesex County Prose Jennifer Angier - Middletown Adult Education Kara White - Middletown High School James Comishey - Morgan High School, Clinton Cora Mahon - Morgan High School, Clinton Lucy Valletta - Morgan High School, Clinton Writon Tucker - Morgan High School, Clinton Jeff Stanwix - Old Saybrook Senior High School Jacob Anderson - Old Saybrook Senior High School Megan Puttre - Old Saybrook Senior High School Pamela Hopkins - Old Saybrook Senior High School Emma Fidel - Valley Regional High School
Hartford County Prose Janaki Challa - Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Morgan Lindsey Enowitch - Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Tiana Moses - Bloomfield High School Anna Gallo - Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Amy Riccio - Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Dominika Cwalina - Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Rose Swaim - Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Eileen Lynch - Conard High School, West Hartford Sam Adler-Bell - Canton High School Shelia Sennett - Conard High School, West Hartford Elizabeth Parke - Farmington High School
Hartford County Poetry
Devin Karbowicz - Farmington High School Kathleen Mulpeter - Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Cat Lane - Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Emily Delano - Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Lauren Czajkowski - Farmington High School Saue Kime - Farmington High School Chelsea Novak-Rich - East Hartford High School Ashton Asamoah - Hall High School, West Hartford Jeremy Jacobson, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Sasha Debevec-McKenney, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Colin Sohn,- Farmington High School Karen Droz - Farmington High School Jordan Haviland - Conard High School, West Hartford Thomas Miceli Bristol Eastern High School Amanda Jacobson - Hall High School, West Hartford Jessica Chiep - Avon High School
New London County Prose
Valerie Doughty - Ledyard High School Katherine Bossardet - Ledyard High School Zachary Byron - Lyman Memorial High School, Lebanon Rebecca Mowan - Montville High School Anne Muenchinger - Williams School, New London Emmett Griffin - Griswold High School Elise Hanks - Ledyard High School Brandy Avellino - Bacon Academy, Colchester Hayley D'Amelia - East Lyme High School
New London County Poetry
Nicole Rubin - Norwich Free Academy Elizabeth Evans - Williams School, New London Rhett Dellore, Norwich Free Academy Grace Fischer - Williams School, New London Annika Ljungbeg - Williams School, New London Ryan O'Connell - Ledyard High School Julia Neusner - Williams School, New London David Burnham - Williams School, New London Greg Elperin - Williams School, New London Kathleen Haugae - Williams School, New London Abaigeal Caras - Williams School, New London
Litchfield County Prose
Mala Ananth - Nonnewaug High School, Woodbury Emma Gaedeke - Northwest Regional High School, Winsted Brittany Kaminski - Nonnewaug High School, Woodbury Elsa Anglin - Nonnewaug High School, Woodbury Hannah Colbert - Hotchkiss School, Lakeville Brian C. Ernst - Nonnewaug High School, Woodbury Julie Albert - Waterbury Arts Magnet School (Litchfield County resident) Oliver Alex - Salisbury High School Emily Nalband - Litchfield High School
Litchfield County Poetry Chelsea Macary - Wamogo Regional High School, Litchfield Karissa Raymond - New Milford High School Thomas Kenney III - Torrington High School Nicholas Maraia - Torrington High School Elizabeth Cote - Torrington High School Leonard Kendall - Torrington High School Sara Stecewicz - Torrington High School Noreen Meghani - Nonnewaug High School, Woodbury Breanna Sellars - Nonnewaug High School, Woodbury
Fairfield County Poetry
Brianna Halek - Brookfield High School Missy MaCable - Greenwich Academy Heath Goldman - Greenwich Academy Kyle M. Sturges - Alternative Center, Danbury Phoebe Ermert - Alternative Center, Danbury Claire Merrill - Central Magnet School, Bridgeport Molly O'Neill - Greenwich Academy Desiree Pacaud - Bullard Havens Regional Vocational Technical School, Bridgeport Jenny Pham - Central Magnet School, Bridgeport Caroline Johnson - Greenwich Academy Allison Mandeville - Sherman School TraNisha Blackwell - Central Magnet School, Bridgeport
Fairfield County Prose
Lindsay Kirkham - Masuk High School, Monroe Shephanie Furtak - Central Magnet School, Bridgeport Melanie Rodriguez - Central Magnet School, Bridgeport Judane Clarke - Central Magnet School, Bridgeport Lucas Spiro - Norwalk High School Kaleigh Finn - Immaculate High School Chirs Fragoso - Newtown High School Faye Keegan - Greenwich Academy Tim Pagan - Alternative Center, Danbury Richard Smith - Central Magnet School, Bridgeport Michelle Boyd - Masuk High School, Monroe Ashley Webb - Alternative Center, Danbury
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Amy Ma, Jon Andersen Keynote Speakers For Young Writers 10th Annual Dinner
Amy Ma Jon Andersen
LITCHFIELD, CT- February 23, 2007 – Two dynamic poets and writers -- a graduate student at Central Connecticut State University and a high school English teacher -- will be the keynote speakers for the 10th annual IMPAC-CSU Young Writers dinner Friday, June 1 at the Litchfield Inn. Of course, being a writer is very difficult, because you need a lot of skills, concentration and self-confidence, order essay and read more about it, but it is worth contacting https://order-essays.com in order to get interesting advice.
About 4,000 students have participated in the program since 1998. By June 1 of this year, the Young Writers Trust will have given more than $150,000 to Connecticut’s best young writers. Thousand-dollar winners include students from more than 50 schools. [A complete list of prior winners follows this announcement.]
Grand prize winners – to be announced at the June 1 dinner – will also earn a trip to Dublin for events connected with the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Dublin Writers Festival.
Amy Ma, the 2001 state poetry champion in the IMPAC-CSU competition and a graduate of West Hartford’s Conard High School, went on to major in English at Wesleyan University. There, she completed a short story collection while mentored by the writer Kit Reed. Currently, she is working to obtain her Connecticut teaching certification at Central.
" I am making an interesting living as a makeup artist and counter manager for Nordstrom cosmetics,” Ma said. “The game plan is to teach high school English, attend law school, open a rock-and-roll-themed makeup boutique with my best friend, and sooner or later run away to New York to adventure and write. I remain enslaved by poetry and accept my fate as such.”
Jon Andersen, Ma’s fellow keynote speaker, is an acclaimed poet and a teacher with a track record of affirming and nurturing young writers.
Andersen’s debut book of poetry, Stomp and Sing, was published by Curbstone Press of Willimantic in 2005. The poems in Stomp and Sing illuminate the concerns and aspirations of the new working class generation, and serve as an imagistic autobiography. Clear and direct, narrative and lyrical, they take us from mountaintops to local cafes, from lumberyards to town sidewalks, and range in theme from the impact of racism to the consolation of nature.
His poems have appeared in numerous journals including Connecticut Review, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, The Progressive, and Rattle.
Luis Rodriguez, author of Always Running, writes: “Jon Andersen’s poems sing of a life lived, devoured, explored, and awake. Who writes like this anymore? Oh, for more Jon Andersens in our midst, to remind us we are more complex, nuanced, and meaningful than many are daring to be.”
Andersen was born in 1970 in New London. He currently lives with his wife and family in Willimantic and teaches at E.O. Smith High School in Storrs. Many of Andersen’s students have been county finalists and prize winners in the IMPAC-CSU competition.
Building on the tradition begun by novelist Wally Lamb, Ma and Andersen will conduct a workshop for the county winners prior to the annual dinner.
Poets and writers in each of Connecticut’s eight counties win $1,000 prizes annually, awarded during ceremonies at the four CSU campuses. About a dozen finalists in prose and poetry from each county are invited to the regional ceremonies.
Those events for spring 2007 are as follows: Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, April 23; Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, April 24; Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, April 26; and Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, April 30.
Judging will begin soon for county finalists and winners.
The 16 county winners – as well as their parents, families, teachers and friends – will be invited to the annual dinner at the Litchfield Inn. In addition, the Young Writers Trust has been trying to locate as many prior winners as possible to invite them to the 10th annual ceremonies.
IMPAC, a leading productivity firm, also endows the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, which at 100,000 Euros is the world's largest prize for a single work of fiction.
IMPAC Chairman Jim Irwin and retired CSU Chancellor Bill Cibes expanded the Young Writers Program from Litchfield County to cover the entire state in 2000. Chancellor David Carter, formerly president of Eastern Connecticut State University, has been a champion for the program and has undertaken initiatives to expand participation.
The CSU System serves more than 35,000 students, making it the largest public university system in Connecticut. A total of 166 academic programs are offered
throughout the system, and more than 5,000 degrees are awarded annually.
Past speakers for the annual dinner have included novelist Wally Lamb, Central’s Poet in Residence Ravi Shankar, CSU Professor Vivian Shipley, writer and radio talk show host Colin McEnroe, writer and SCSU Professor Audrey Kerr, poets Gray Jacobik, Kate Rushin, Franz Douskey, Rennie McQuilken and Richard Blanco, Connecticut Poet Laureates Leo Connellan and Marilyn Nelson, novelist Bruce Clements, French linguist Cheryl Demharter, Special Assistant to the United Nations Secretary General, Natalie Hahn, National Review Managing Editor Priscilla Buckley, ABC Nightline Correspondent Dave Marash, Brian Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC News, statewide prose champions Candi Deschamps of Danbury and Emily Dykes of Montville, statewide poetry champions Amy Ma and Adrian Kudler of West Hartford, Emily Madsen of Avon and two-time county poetry champion Jennifer Steele of Middletown.
In addition, a pilot program for writers of French and Spanish awards up to $1,000 in prizes to competitors from Litchfield and Wamogo High Schools. Discussions are continuing to expand that program, which is co-sponsored by the Litchfield-Morris Rotary.
Judges for the competition have included Susan Gilmore, Jenny Minton, Norm Pattis, Terese Karmel, Christine Palm, Dan Pope, Rand Cooper, Kat Lyons, Jack Daley, Jeff Mock, Pit Pinegar, Jim Scrimgeour, Sandra Ebner, Faith Vicinanza, Franz Douskey, Diane Smith, Colin McEnroe, Vita Muir, Elizabeth Thomas, Cheryl Demharter, Jessica Treat, Estela Lopez , Kate Rushin, Sylvie Glickstein, Lieve Keeney, Carol Kearns, Ravi Shankar, Joe Bentivegna, Larry Cohen, Dale Salm, Vivian Shipley, Rennie McQuilken, Charley Monagan, Susanne Davis, Ron Samul, Jill Weinberger, Denning Powell, Ron
Winter, Priscilla Buckley, Kat Lyons, John McNicholas, Dick Slawsky, Anson Smith, Malo Forde, Leo Connellan, Marilyn Nelson, and John Surowiecki.
Thanks to the wisdom and generosity of our sponsors, we have been able to maintain this program for 10 years.
Special thanks to sponsors who have supported us at levels allowing The Trust to send state champions in prose and poetry and parents to Dublin for activities connected with the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Dublin Writers Festival.
Sponsors for the grand prizes include Tomasso Brothers Inc. of New Britian, Litchfield Bancorp, Meehan, Meehan & Gavin of Bridgeport, Torrington Savings Bank, Halloran & Sage LLP of Hartford and Philip Russell P.C. of Greenwich.
Tomasso Brothers sponsors the trip to Dublin for the poetry champion and a parent of the student.
Sponsoring the prose champion and a parent are President & CEO Mark Macomber of Litchfield Bancorp, Atty. Rich Meehan of Meehan, Meehan & Gavin of Bridgeport, Jeffrey A. Lalonde, President & CEO of Torrington Savings Bank, Atty. Ken Slater of Halloran & Sage LLP of Hartford and Atty. Philip Russell of Philip Russell P.C. of Greenwich.
Mark Macomber of Litchfield Bancorp was the first sponsor of the Young Writers Program. Founding sponsors include: David and Ginger Dean of Litchfield County Commercial, Diane Blick of The Business Center, Connecticut Cut Flowers and the Litchfield Inn.
Sustaining sponsors include Jeff Lalonde of Torrington Savings Bank, Dr. Joseph Bentivegna, Del Eberhardt of Touchstone Applied Science Services, Connecticut Business & Industry Association, Collins Hardwood Flooring, JCL Pro Tree, Atty. Jack Horak of Reid & Riege, Atty. Richard Meehan, Atty. Stephanie Weaver, Atty. Philip Russell, Atty. Ken Slater, La Cupola Ristorante, Aspen Garden Restaurant, Bill McGurk of Rockville Savings Bank, Tomasso Brothers, Education Connection, Sandy Taylor and Judy Doyle of Curbstone Press, Globe-Pequot Press, Vincent Valvo of the Hartford Business Journal, Frank Morse of Carter Morse & Company, Bantam Fuel, Casa Bacchus, A Frame Come True, Spino's Men's Wear, Litchfield County Superintendent's Association, The Warner Theater, The Village Restaurant, Dr. Robert Van Wyck, the Hickory Stick Book Shop, Aldrich, Perkins & Co., Michael J. London & Associates, Atty. A. Paul Spinella, Atty. Norm Pattis, Brewer Consulting, Whitlock Farms Booksellers, Murphy Real Estate, The Workshop, Association of Productivity Specialists, Black Rock Medical Group, Mayo Crowe LLC, Newman Creed & Associates, DiFranco’s Restaurant and Pizzeria and the Rainy Faye Bookstore & Gallery.
Board members of the Young Writers Trust are: F. Lee Bailey, Lynn Baker, Joe Bentivegna, Diane Blick, David Carter, Bill Cibes, Franz Douskey, Del Eberhardt, Diane Smith, John Tindall-Gibson, Andy Thibault, Stephanie Weaver and Lauren Weisberg-Kaufman. Ex-officio: Allen Hoffman, Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
YOUNG WRITERS STATE & COUNTY WINNERS 1998-2006
LITCHFIELD COUNTY WINNERS, 1998 & 1999
1998
Poetry Tamara Taitt, The Hotchkiss School
Prose Shakhi Majumdar, The Hotchkiss School
1999
Poetry Natalie Araujo, The Hotchkiss School
Prose Amar Mehta, The Hotchkiss School
STATE WINNERS 2000 - 2006
2000
Poetry Adrian Kudler, Hall High School
Prose Julia Wong, Hopkins School
2001
Poetry Amy Ma, Conard High School
Prose Candi Deschamps, Danbury High School
2002
Poetry Emily Madsen, Avon High School
Prose Katrina Leno, Somers High School
2003
Poetry Kyle Smith, Montville High School
Prose Lauren Hefferon, St. Margaret McTernan School
2004
Poetry Alexandra Regenbogen, Litchfield High School
Prose Emily Dykes, Montville High School
2005
Poetry Jessica Roth, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
Prose Charlotte Crowe, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
2006
Poetry Britta Bell, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
Prose John Raithel, The Woodhall School
COUNTY WINNERS 2000 - 2006
2000
New London - Poetry Jillian Hyde, Norwich Free Academy
New London - Prose Sarah Lukens, Montville High School
Windham - Poetry Erin Grant, Woodstock Academy
Windham - Prose Jennifer Babulsky, Plainfield High School
Hartford - Poetry Adrian Kudler, Hall High School
Hartford - Prose Charla Stetson, Windsor Locks High School
Tolland - Poetry Elizabeth Molnar, E.O. Smith High School
Tolland - Prose Jessica Stites, E.O. Smith High School
Fairfield - Poetry Rachel Vogel, Weston High School
Fairfield - Prose Molly Lazer, Trumbull High School
Litchfield - Poetry Kathryn Chanko, Torrington High School
Litchfield - Prose Julia Liu, Phillips Exeter Academy [Watertown resident]
New Haven - Poetry Katie Perkins, Westover School
New Haven - Prose Julia Wong, Hopkins School
Middlesex - Poetry Molly Murphy, Nathan Hale Ray Middle School
Middlesex - Prose Jessica Albetski, Mercy High School
2001
New London - Poetry Sarah Stepler, Stonington High School
New London - Prose Erin O'Brien, The Williams School
County Winners 2001, continued
Windham - Poetry Emily Salisbury, Woodstock Academy
Windham - Prose Bonnie Moses, Woodstock Academy
Hartford - Poetry Amy Ma, Conard High School
Hartford - Prose Jennifer Silverman, Simsbury High School
Tolland - Poetry Becky Tucker, E.O. Smith High School
Tolland - Prose Matthew Salesses, E.O. Smith High School
Fairfield - Poetry Paula Brady, Greenwich Academy
Fairfield - Prose Candi Deschamps, Danbury High School
Litchfield - Poetry Christopher Rovero, Torrington High School
Litchfield - Prose Kaitlin Harley, Woodbury Middle School
New Haven - Poetry Martha Kwasnik, Westover School
New Haven - Prose Natasha Diosa, Mark T. Sheehan High School
Middlesex - Poetry Jennifer Steele, Middletown High School
Middlesex - Prose Lindsey Bowman, Old Saybrook High School
2002
New London - Poetry Lauren Star, Norwich Free Academy
New London - Prose Mallory Tew, Fitch High School
Windham - Poetry Richard DeHay, Killingly High School
Windham - Prose Carissa Johnson, Ellis Tech
Hartford - Poetry Emily Madsen, Avon High School
Hartford - Prose Daniel Golden, Greater Hartford Academy
Tolland - Poetry Kira Taylor, E.O. Smith High School
Tolland - Prose Katrina Leno, Somers High School
Fairfield - Poetry Alexandra Day, Greenwich Academy
Fairfield - Prose Lindsey Mecca, St. Luke's School
Litchfield - Poetry Ashley Langer, Litchfield High School
Litchfield - Prose Erin Cronk, The Hotchkiss School
New Haven - Poetry Erica Maroney, North Haven High School
New Haven - Prose Constantin Loles, Hopkins School
Middlesex - Poetry Jennifer Steele, Middletown High School
Middlesex - Prose Lindsey Bowman, Old Saybrook High School
2003
New London - Poetry Kyle Smith, Montville High School
New London - Prose Kristin Jacques, Griswold High School
Windham - Poetry Bonnie Moses, Woodstock Academy
Windham - Prose Sarah Davis, Sterling Memorial School
Hartford - Poetry Melanie Tongren, Granby Memorial High School
Hartford - Prose Erin Snyder, Canton Junior/Senior High School
Tolland - Poetry Sarah Myers, E.O. Smith High School
Tolland - Prose Sara Seagrave, RHAM High School
Fairfield - Poetry Anna Mullen, Greenwich Academy Fairfield - Prose Tucker Sparkman, King & Low Heywood Thomas
Litchfield - Poetry Danielle Bauman, Litchfield High School
Litchfield - Prose Madeleine Marecki, Wamogo Regional High School
New Haven - Poetry Rebecca Mills, Thomas Edison Middle School
New Haven - Prose Lauren Hefferon, St. Margaret McTernan School
Middlesex - Poetry Daniel Kennedy, Old Saybrook High School
Middlesex - Prose Carmen Melillo, Valley Regional High School
At Large - Poetry Ashley Gallo, E.O. Smith High School
2004
New London - Poetry Julia Canfield, Norwich Free Academy
New London - Prose Emily Dykes, Montville High School
Windham - Poetry Devin McDonald, Arts at the Capital Theater
Windham - Prose Allison Kelly, Woodstock Academy
Hartford - Poetry Mike Doyle, Windsor High School
Hartford - Prose Laurie Lomask, Conard High School
Tolland - Poetry Kelly Berryman, Rockville High School
Tolland - Prose Adam Thime, RHAM High School
Fairfield - Poetry Anna Mullen, Greenwich Academy
Fairfield - Prose Erica Sampson, Newtown High School
Litchfield - Poetry Alexandra Regenbogen, Litchfield High School
Litchfield - Prose Rebecca Podos, Torrington High School
New Haven - Poetry Charles Hellman, Hopkins School
New Haven - Prose Aleshia James, Cooperative Arts & Humanities Magnet School
Middlesex - Poetry Stephanie Tessitore, Valley Regional High School
Middlesex - Prose Toral Odedra, Old Saybrook High School
At Large - Poetry Zoe Goehring, Westover School
2005
New London - Poetry Emily Ayer, Ledyard High School
New London - Prose Emily Dykes, Montville High School
Windham - Poetry Chelsea Love, Arts of the Capital Theater
Windham - Prose Georgianna Hunt, Woodstock Academy
Hartford - Poetry Jessica Roth, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
Hartford - Prose Charlotte Crowe, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
Tolland - Poetry Gracie Greenbaum, Tolland High School
Tolland - Prose Molly LaFlesh, Rockville High School
Fairfield - Poetry Gregory Kovach, Masuk High School
Fairfield - Prose Kevin Rooney, St. Joseph's High School
Litchfield - Poetry Elizabeth Robinson, Nonnewaug High School
Litchfield - Prose Rachel Schapira, Housatonic Regional Valley High School
New Haven - Poetry Christa Morris, Educational Center for the Arts
New Haven - Prose Sam Cunningham, Educational Center for the Arts
Middlesex - Poetry Lindsay Carini, Mercy High School
Middlesex - Prose Carmen Melillo, Valley Regional High School
2006
New London - Poetry Ryan O'Connell, Ledyard High School
New London - Prose Sourav Bhowmick, East Lyme High School
Windham - Poetry Chelsea Paige Love, Arts at the Capital Theater
Windham - Prose Kylee Bergin, Woodstock Academy
Hartford - Poetry Britta Bell, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
Hartford - Prose Molly Rosenthal, Hall High School
Tolland - Poetry Molly LaFlesh, Rockville High School
Tolland - Prose Fallon VanOudenhove, Rockville High School
Fairfield - Poetry Bryan Murphy, Trumbull High School
Fairfield - Prose Shakhed Hadaya, Danbury High School
Litchfield - Poetry Jasmine Ruiz, Torrington High School
Litchfield - Prose John Raithel, The Woodhall School
New Haven - Poetry Amanda Debisschop, Woodland Regional High School
New Haven - Prose Diana Filar, Wolcott High School
Middlesex - Poetry Elizabeth Santovasi, Old Saybrook High School
Middlesex - Prose Jen Angier, Valley Regional High School
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Note: County winners each earn $1,000. From 2000 to 2005, state winners each earned an additional $1,000. Beginning in June 2006, the state winner for prose and a parent and the state winner for poetry and a parent were awarded all-expense paid trips to Dublin for festivities connected with the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Dublin Writers Festival. * A related awards program in French & Spanish, co-sponsored by the Litchfield-Morris Rotary, has awarded up to $1,000 annually since 2000.
Connecticut young writers John Raithel and Britta Bell with Irish author Colm Toibin, winner of the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and young writer Andrew Loh of Malaysia, on the steps of Dublin City Hall Tuesday, June 13, 2006- IMPAC PHOTO
Malaysian young writer Andrew Loh, center, holds the Waterford Crystal Trophy won by novelist Colm Tobin -- along with 100,000 euros -- as the 2006 winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Loh is flanked by Connecticut young writers Britta Bell and John Raithel- IMPAC PHOTO
Irish novelist Colm Toibin with young writers Andrew Loh of Malaysia and Britta Bell and John Raithel of Connecticut, USA, at IMPAC Dublin office 6-14-06 following special workshop run by Toibin. Toibin is the 2006 winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel, The Master. Loh won the 2006 IMPAC Malaysia Young Writers Award. Bell is the 2006 Connecticut poetry champion and Raithel the 2006 Connecticut prose champion in the competition run by the IMPAC-Connecticut State University Young Writers Trust. They each won $1,000 as county winners and a trip to Dublin as state winners. IMPAC Photo.
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Teens win 2006 prose, poetry awards
Litchfield, Connecticut- Two high school students were awarded the top statewide prizes in prose and poetry Sunday in the ninth annual IMPAC-Connecticut State University Young Writers competition.
John Raithel, 17, of The Woodhall School in Bethlehem, won for his story, "Perimeters." Britta Bell, 15, of the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, took home the poetry prize for her poem, "Keeping My Father."
At the annual awards dinner Sunday at the Litchfield Inn, both students received tickets for themselves and one parent to Dublin, Ireland, for a week-long, all-expenses paid trip to attend festivities connected with the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Dublin Writers Festival. The IMPAC Dublin Award -- at 100,000 euros -- is the world's largest prize for a single work of fiction. IMPAC is a worldwide productivity firm with offices in Litchfield.
Raithel and Bell also were awarded $1,000 in April after being named Litchfield and Hartford County winners, respectively.
The awards dinner featured keynote speakers Vivian Shipley, a poet and professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University, and Emily Dykes, a senior at Montville High School who was the state prose winner in 2004.
The program has given more than $135,000 to teenagers since 1998.
2006 Litchfield County Prose Champion John Raithel of The Woodhall School with Dr. David Carter (right), Chancellor of the Connecticut State University System, and Western Connecticut State University President James Schmotter
$16,000 for Young Writers In Regional Ceremonies
LITCHFIELD, CT. April 27, 2006 -- Four young writers received $1,000 checks Thursday night as the IMPAC-CSU Young Writers Trust concluded its series of annual regional ceremonies with a celebration at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury.
The winners for Litchfield and Fairfield counties respectively, are: Jasmine Ruiz of Torrington High School for her poem, "Beautiful in the Ugly;" John Raithel, The Woodhall School, for his story, "Perimeters;" Bryan Murphy, Trumbull High School, for his poem, "Insanity!" and Shakhed Hadaya, Danbury High School, for her story, "The Rat."
Presenting certificates to county finalists and checks to the winners were Dr. David Carter, Chancellor of the Connecticut State University System; and writer Franz Douskey, a founding board member of the Trust and a judge for the competition. Addressing the young writers was Dr. Shouhua Qi, Associate Professor of English at Western and author of "When the Purple Mountain Burns," a book about his life in Nanking.
Litchfield and Fairfield county finalists also included students from Wamogo Regional High School, Salisbury Central School, The Gunnery, The Hotchkiss School, The Taft School, New Milford High School, Shelton High School, Greenwich High School, Newtown High School, Darien High School, Staples High School, Rogers Park Middle School, Newtown Middle School, St. Joseph High School, Greenwich Academy and Norwalk High School.
The winners for Hartford and Tolland counties, respectively, are: Britta Bell of Greater Hartford Academy, for her poem, "Keeping My Father;" Molly Rosenthal, Hall High School, West Hartford, for her story, "7-Eleven;" Molly LaFlesh, Rockville High School, for her poem, "Black Ballpoint Anorexia;" and Fallon VonOudenhove, Rockville High School, for her story, "That's Our Exit." They were honored April 20 at Central Connecticut State University in New Haven.
The winners for New Haven and Middlesex counties, respectively, are: Amanda Debisschop of Woodland Regional High School, for her poem, "Tableau;" Diana Filar, Wolcott High School, for her story, "Wishing on Dandelions;" Elizabeth Santovasi, Old Saybrook High School, for her poem, "Oh, Driver! My Driver!" and Jen Angier, Valley Regional High School, for her story, "Brown Stuff." They were honored April 18 at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.
The winners for New London and Windham counties, respectively, are: Ryan O'Connell of Ledyard High School for his poem, "Suppertime;" Sourav Bhowmick, East Lyme School, for his story, "The New Oasis;" Chelsea Paige Love, Arts at the Capitol Theater of Willimantic, for her poem, "Waiting;" and Kylee Begin, Woodstock Academy, for her story, "One Last Hope." They were honored April 17 at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic.
About 3,500 young writers have competed in the IMPAC -CSU program, which has awarded more than $135,000 since 1998.
Poets and writers in each of Connecticut's eight counties win $1,000 prizes. The top poet and writer from that set of winners will earn a trip to Dublin with a parent for the presentation of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and related festivities in June. Statewide poetry and prose champions will be announced during the annual dinner June 4 at the Litchfield Inn.
In addition, workshops for young writers will be held at Western on May 6-7 at Western Connecticut State University. This event is sponsored by Connecticut Review, the nationally-renowned literary journal published by the CSU System, and the Young Writers Trust. Connecticut Review published the works of 2005 statewide prose champion Charlotte Crowe of Canton and 2005 statewide poetry champion Jessica Roth of Granby in the Spring 2006 edition.
IMPAC, a leading productivity firm, also endows the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, which at 100,000 Euros is the world's largest prize for a single work of fiction.
IMPAC Chairman Jim Irwin and retired CSU Chancellor Bill Cibes joined to bring the Young Writers Program statewide in 2000. Newly-installed Chancellor David Carter, formerly president of Eastern, has been a champion for the program.
The CSU System serves more than 35,000 students, making it the largest public university system in Connecticut. A total of 166 academic programs are offered throughout the system, and more than 5,000 degrees are awarded annually.
2006 Litchfield County Poetry Champion Jasmine Ruiz of Torrington High School with Dr. David Carter (right), Chancellor of the Connecticut State University System, and Western Connecticut State University President James Schmotter.
IMPAC-Connecticut State University Young Writers Trust
David Carter, CSU Chancellor
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Jim Irwin, IMPAC Chairman
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