17 North Penn Students Named Creative Writing Contest Winners

LANSDALE, PA -- The North Penn School District recently recognized 24 high school students for their performance in the 2016 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Creative Writing Contest this past February.

Each year, the organizers of the AAUW Creative Writing Contest review anonymous pieces of both poetry and prose selections submitted by students in grades 10 through12 attending North Penn High School NPHS, Souderton High School, Lansdale Catholic High School and Germantown Academy High School.

Students from Souderton Area High School, Germantown Academy, Lansdale Catholic High School and North Penn High School submitted 258 fiction entries and of those, 24 were deemed winners.

Of those 24 student winners, 17 were NPHS students. The winning writing selections were published and presented at an awards ceremony on April 26 in their honor in which they heard a keynote address by Alan Drew, a published novelist and creative writing professor at Villanova University. They also shared their original poetry or prose compositions with friends and family.

The following North Penn students have been named winners:

Dominique Mosley (12) –also a 2015 winner

Floriana Tulli (12)

Francis Burk (11)

Jinie Eom (11)

Elizabeth Desonier (11)

Ellie Griffiths (11)

Stefan Jablokow (11)

Ashley Kister (11)

Aparna Mukerji (11)

Hailey Peterson (11)

Rishabh Pudhota (11)

Neha Sajja (11)

Adrianna Donat (10)

Anastasia Dziekar (10

Jessica McKenzie (10)

Tessa O’Donnell (10)

Isha Patel (10)

Congratulations to the student winners as well as their teachers. The district expressed their gratitude too to Janet Kratz, English teacher at NPHS, for continuing to coordinate this contest for the high school.