Writing Contest Announcement
At the Cochise College Creative Writing Celebration on Friday, April 5, the winners of the Writing Contest and Kids Writing Contest were announced.
The Writing Contest, which was open to any Cochise County resident and includes work in memoir, fiction and poetry, received more entries this year than in its two-decade history, said Alex O’Meara, co-director of the Creative Writing Celebration and coordinator of the Contest.
“We received more than 100 poems, more than 40 works of non-fiction and almost 50 short stories,” O’Meara said. “That shows that there are so many great writers in Cochise County, and we’re honored to have received their work.” Thank you to everyone who participated.
Congratulations to all the winners by category.
Memoir
Second place ($100)- Edward “Jay” Matchett for “The Long Run”
Fiction
First place ($200)- Gretchen Hill for “The Company of Other Men”
Second place ($100)- Seamus Dignan for “Hold This for Me”
Third place ($50)- Joseph Bertuca for “Christmas Goat”
Poetry
First place ($200)- Tina Durham for “Instead of the Border Patrol Helicopter”
Second place ($100)- Beth Henson for “It’s 8:15”
Kids Writing Contest
Grades K-5 category
First place- Lilly Messina for “Space”
Second place- Lilly Messina for “Winter Nights”
Third place- Emerson Casale for “The Cheese Book”
Grades 6-8 category
First place- Rylan Bonar for “The Tree at the End of the Road”
Second place- Rylan Bonar for “Music’s Simple Soul”
Third place-Barbara Lao for “The Call of the Pack”
Grades 9-12 category
First place- Emma Wilson for “The Teenage Mind”
Second place- Selena Aguilar for “Sweeties”
Third place – Victoria Hoffman for “Tumbleweed” and Armani Ramirez-Sperle for “Tomorrow”
Contest winners will be published in the Herald Review/Media newspaper. The top winners in each category of the Writing Contest will be published in the Cochise College Literary and Arts Magazine, The Mirage.
For more information about the Creative Writing Celebration and the Writing Contests, visit www.cochise.edu/cwc.