LIBRARY NOTES

The Seventh Annual Young Writers Awards 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Left to right: Mary Miller, Carol Weston, Remi Khaghan, Martha Jean Epstein, Katherine Franco, Gabrielle Herzig, Sarah Mei Yeoh-Wang, Robert Quackenbush,Asher Liftin, Dave Johnson, Noah Engelmayer, Edra Ziesk.

The Young Writers Awards honor good writing in poetry and prose by young members of the Library and community in grades three through twelve. Five winners and five honorable mentions received awards at a ceremony and reception on May 14, 2009. Judges Robert Quackenbush, Dave Johnson, Carol Weston, and Edra Ziesk made the presentations and offered remarks about the winning entries and the writing life. The winning entries can be read on the Library's website and are being cataloged as a booklet for the Children's Library.

Winners:

• Lin Lin's Silk Road Diary by Gabrielle Herzig
• I Meet My Sister by Katherine Franco
• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives by Noah Engelmayer
• A Moment I'll Never Forget by Remi Khagan
• Strings by Sarah Mei Yeoh-Wang
• Alzheimer's by Martha Jean Epstein
• Poultry Poetry: Polemic by Shon Arieh-Lerer

Honorable Mention:

• The Pomegranate by Asher Liftin
• Assignment by Mary Miller
• Leda and the Swan by Elissa Watters

Children's Library Committee Chair Susan L. Robbins, Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner, and trustees George L.K. Frelinghuysen and Barbara H. Stanton.
(All the photos in this spread are by Karen Smul.)

The 2009 Young Writers Awards were generously underwritten by Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner and Paul A. Wagner.

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