Oswego Students Honored in Scholastic Competition

Submitted by Oswego School District 308

OSWEGO, IL — The following Oswego High School (OHS) creative writing students placed in this year’s Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Competition.

This is the first year that OHS creative writing students have entered the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition.

Here are the credentials for the awards:

• Gold Keys- top 5-7 percent of all entries
• Silver Keys- top 7-10 percent of all entries
• Honorable Mentions- top 10-15 percent of all entries

OHS Creative Writers:

Flash Fiction

• Honorable Mentions
  • Nick Feltes “There Goes The Door”
  • Drew Kaluf “Entry One”

Personal Essay

• Honorable Mentions
  • Maddie Confiliano “A Fall From Disco”
  • Rachel Mittelstadt “Ruby Red Slippers”
  • Cassie Pasulka “The Trip”
  • Lydia Shenneman “The Color of My World”
• Silver Key
  • Erika Werth “I Am”

Poetry

• Honorable Mentions
  • Karly Collman “Infection”
  • Maddie Confiliano “The Ride”
  • Abigail Eident “Lantern in the Night Snowy Woods” & “White Swans”
  • Nick Feltes “The ‘Small’ Things”
  • Alma Gallegos “It Goes Bump” & “The Little Porcelain Doll”
  • Morgan Houston “Robots”
  • Kacper Kucia “Beethoven” & “Mask”
  • Rachel Mittelstaedt “Drops of Rain; After Walt Whitman” & “Writer’s Block”
  • Bruno Reinert “Loss and What I Wish I Could Say”
  • Autumn Sheldon “Love to Love”
• Silver Keys
  • Jacob Lantz “The Meaning Sunsets”
  • Radiance Robinson “Poetry”

Short Story

• Honorable Mentions
  • Autumn Baksha “Forget-Me-Not”
  • Megg Hunt “What is This Thing Called Love”