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CT Young Writers Trust
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By BOB THIESFIELD
-- SHELDON GASKELL with Connecticut State University System Vice Chancellor Louise Feroe and Diane Smith
GRACE BEGGINS with Feroe, Smith
CROWD APPROVES -- Happy attendees in foreground include judges Kate Rushin and Susanne Davis and teacher Barbara Greenbaum, Windham County Prose Champion Anna Nassiff and family. Behind them are State Prose Champion Sheldon Gaskell and family.
Teens win prose, poetry awards
June 4, 2010
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Students from Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and The Williams School of New London were awarded the top statewide prizes in prose and poetry last night in the 13th annual Connecticut Young Writers competition.
Sheldon Gaskell, 16, of Suffield, won for his story, "Kineo." Grace Beggins, 17, of Guilford, took home the poetry prize for her poem, "Cloud Gazing."
At the annual awards dinner at the Hartford Club, both students received $1,000 for their efforts. They also were awarded $500 in April after being named county champions.
The awards dinner featured keynote speakers Robert Leuci, the novelist and professor at the University of Rhode Island who served with the NYPD as an undercover narcotics detective; and Lauren Hefferon, the 2003 State Prose Champion, Yale Class of 2010. Hefferon is training this summer with Teach for America, an arm of AmeriCorps that sends graduates into the inner cities to teach high school students.
The ceremony included two live bands, the Bridgeport-based Latin rock band Cosmic Jibaros along with the Jen Allen Big Band, hors d'oeuvres and dinner. About 130 guests attended.
The program has given nearly $200,000 to teenagers since 1998. More than 6,000 students have competed.
This year saw 795 teenagers compete, the highest in the CT Young Writers Trust history. The previous record was 647 in 2000.
The Connecticut Network, CT-N, taped the event for broadcast to be scheduled in about a week. Diane Smith, the author, TV-radio newswoman and board member of the Young Writers Trust, served as Master of Ceremonies.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER BOB LEUCI
KEYNOTE SPEAKER LAUREN HEFFERON
Writers Workshop
Diane Smith Opens The Program Following Greeting
By Hartford Club General Manager James Fisher
COSMIC JIBAROS
-- photo via Cosmic Jibaros
Jen Allen Big Band Vocalists Before The Show:
Shannon Gunnip, Laura McCabe, DominiQue
-- Photo by Meg Rivers
16 County Champions
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NEW LONDON COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION
Grace Beggins, 17,
"Cloud Gazing"
The Williams School, New London
TEACHER: John Becker
NEW LONDON COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION
Gloria Creamer, 16,
"Old Glory"
Montville High School
TEACHER: Ted Richmond
WINDHAM COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION
Josh Bryer, 17,
"A Number of Thoughts"
Kilingly High School
TEACHER: John Fulco
WINDHAM COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION
Anna Nassiff, 18,
"Mrs. Warren In Color"
Arts at The Capitol Theater, Willimantic
TEACHER: Barbara Greenbaum
FAIRFIELD COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION
Julia Albano, 18,
"Red In The Shade Of Salsa Diane"
Danbury High School
TEACHER: Deborah Casey
FAIRFIELD COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION
Zeena Advani, 17,
"Universal Rhythms"
Westhill High School, Stamford
TEACHER: Robin Denninger
LITCHFIELD COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION
Carter Brown, 18,
"ICARI"
Litchfield High School
TEACHER: Deborah Dove
LITCHFIELD COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION
Claire Burch, 16,
"The Neighborhood"
New Milford High School
TEACHER: Cheryl Morosko
MIDDLESEX COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION
Olivia DelGiudice, 17,
Old Saybrook High School
"Recovery"
TEACHER: Susan Murphy
MIDDLESEX COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION
Chelsea Melanson, 17,
The Morgan School, Clinton
"Come Home"
TEACHER: Leslie Chausse
NEW HAVEN COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION
Mary Margaret Meehan, 17,
[Redding resident]
Westover School, Middlebury
"Equine"
TEACHER: Bruce Coffin
NEW HAVEN COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION
Noah Perito, 15,
Branford High School
"Dead Card Players Tell No Tales"
TEACHER: Wendy Grehl
HARTFORD COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION
Morgan Finn, 16,
Bristol Central HS
"Where I Come From"
TEACHER: Sophia Gintoff
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HARTFORD COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION
Sheldon Gaskell, 16,
[Suffield resident]
Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
"Kineo"
TEACHER: Maureen O'Brien
TOLLAND COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION
Timothy West, 18,
Rockville High School
"In Homage To M.C. Escher"
TEACHER: Victoria Nordlund
TOLLAND COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION
Kyle Kneeland, 17,
Rockville High School
"Colors Of A Dream"
TEACHER: Victoria Nordlund
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