B-CC Annual Writing Contest Winners

Poetry

1st Place: “Our Story,” Lydia Wosen

2nd Place: “Hospital Daze,” Eleni Kontos

3rd Place: “Summers in Turkey,” Jasmine Pegues

Short Story

1st Place: “The Priestess and the King,” Laurel Kane

2nd Place: “Seasons,” Juliette Leeth

3rd Place: “Me and Dadi,” August Van Der Werf 

Personal Essay

1st Place: “Saturday, October 27, 2018,” Hannah Wilks

2nd Place: “The Spark of a Movement,” Eva Stavisky

3rd Place: “How to be a person (in ten steps),” Madeline Molyneux

One-Act Play

1st Place: “IRL,”  August Van Der Werf and Patrick Mazella

Special Thanks:

The Chips staff (B-CC’s literary arts magazine) and English teachers choose finalists which are judged with the support of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda by the following judges:

Poetry Judge: Emily Holland, Managing Editor of Poet Lore.

Short Story Judge: Zach Powers is the author of the novel First Cosmic Velocity and the short story collection Gravity Changes.

Personal Essay Judge: Amy Freeman is an author and essayist, with bylines in The Washington Post, Parents.com, Santa Fe Writing Project, HuffPost, Furious Gravity anthology, and many more. 

B-CC Educational Foundation provides financial support.