Congratulations to the following winners of our 23rd Annual Nature Writing Contest! Read their winning works at the new Geauga Park District under News & Updates, or come hear them read in person (and pick up a FREE winners’ chapbook) on Sunday, August 5th, at 3:00 p.m. during the 27th Annual Nature Arts Festival.
Adult Poetry
- 1st – Annelise Wallie, “They Think I’m Crazy”
- 2nd – Nancy Murphy, “Dawn Train”
- 3rd – Jann Glove, “The Wonders of Wildflowers”
- Honorable Mention – Sarah Pavolko, “Interlude”
Adult Prose
- 1st – Michael Dielman, “Abduction”
- 2nd – Jacob Silvia, “The Life Bird”
- 3rd – Kevin Schaner, “Nature’s Voice from Your Lawn”
Adolescent Poetry
- 1st – Samantha Kirschman, “elegy for the roadkill”
- 2nd – Kate Stephenson, “River Flows”
- 3rd – Katlin Kilpatrick, “Animal Alphabet”
- Honorable Mention – Marie Kanzinger, “Admiring”
- Honorable Mention – Maarika Haller, “The Great Big Blue”
Adolescent Prose
- 1st – Nora Vinson, “River”
- 2nd – Andrew France, “The Birds are Back”
- 3rd – Samantha Kirschman, “Healing in Nature”
- Honorable Mention – Nora Rock, “One Wish”
- Honorable Mention – Elizabeth Wallie, “The Beach”
Child Poetry
- 1st – William Burt, “Spiders”
- 2nd – Maya Taylor, “It Is Snowing in April”
- 3rd – Quinn Hochstetler, “The Wonders of Nature”
- Honorable Mention – Mallory Kuhn, “Grass”
- Honorable Mention – Abby Kuhn, “Migration Time”
Child Prose
- 1st -Ethan Brown, “Nature is all Around Us”
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