Smithtown West Student a Recognized Writer for Peace

Smithtown High School West’s Hannah Rosenthal has won second place in the nonfiction division of the Writing for Peace essay contest.

Hannah’s essay, ”Jews and the Black Death,” will be featured in the 2016 issue of DoveTales, an international journal of the arts. Students were encouraged to write an essay about a social, political, environmental or familial challenge faced by individuals within a cultural group, or a personal experience with another culture.

Writing for Peace is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating empathy through education and creative writing in order to develop a foundation of compassion on which to build a more peaceful world. Their goal is to inspire and guide young writers to refine their craft and to consider the many ways their writing focus can bring us closer to nonviolent conflict resolution, a society that values human rights, as well as environmental and economic sustainability.

Photo courtesy of the Smithtown Central School District: Smithtown HSW student Hannah Rosenthal is congratulated by her social studies teacher Christina Cone.