CT Homeschooler Wins Prose Writing Award

A home-schooler from Redding, CT and a student at Westover School in Middlebury were awarded the top statewide prizes in prose and poetry last Sunday night in the 12th annual IMPAC-Connecticut State University System Young Writers competition.

Emma Lowenberg, 16, of the Lowenberg Home School in Redding, won for her story, "Bernard". Felicity Sheehy, 16, of Westover School of Middlebury, for her poem, "Evening Conversation."

At the annual awards celebration Sunday night at the Mark Twain House & Museum, both students received $1,000 for their efforts. Lowenberg and Sheehy also were awarded $500 in April after being named, respectively, prose and poetry winners in Fairfield and New Haven counties.

Lowenberg is the first home school county and state champion in the program's 12-year history. A number of home school writers have been county finalists over the years.

Lowenberg's and Sheehy's works will be considered for publication in Connecticut Review, the nationally-renowned literary journal published by the Connecticut State University System (CSUS).

... You can see a COMPLETE LIST OF COUNTY CHAMPIONS / STATE FINALISTS on the CSUS website. For more information:
http://www.ctyoungwriters.org/
Call 860-690-0211 or write tntcomm82@cs.com

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(H/T Andy T.)