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      Our COVID-19 response (latest update 5/18/2022)

       

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      TODAY AT THE LIBRARY

      • FULLY REGISTERED: Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Three Books Inspired By It (and Him), with Jane Mallison - Fully Registered
      • Storytime Online

      Upcoming Events

      • Digital Teatime
      • Closing: Memorial Day
      • Closing: Memorial Day
      NEW BOOKS LIST
       

      Book Recommendations

      • Some Thoughts on Street Photography & Related Matters, by Jeffrey Saldinger
      • Books on Ukraine and Russia
      • Black History Month: 28 Days, 28+ Book Recommendations

      Library Blog

      The 20th Annual Young Writers Awards Ceremony
      May 20, 2022
      Celebrating young writers!
      Please Support Our Spring Appeal
      May 11, 2022
      Your gift will contribute to everything that makes the Library so special.
      Cats of the Library
      May 04, 2022
      Felines join the reading frenzy

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Home > For Children > Young Writers Awards 2016 Winners

Young Writers Awards 2016 Winners

Poetry

Where I Am From by Ines Alto

Quiet by Amelia Cogan

Constellation: The Birth of the Caliphate by J.J. Yu

Triolet for the Last Dance by Dora Grossman-Weir

Prose

Life of a Droplet by Avery M. Gallistel

Colors by Josephine Ainslie Blough

Why Did She by Beatrice Gouverneur

Typewriter by Henry Platt

Blurred Lines by Tara Shirazi

 

Honorable Mention

Poetry

Billboard by Abigail Zimmerman

Cold New York by Fia de Sève

[Untitled] by Leonardo Yu

Point of View by Lara Thain

Prose

A Change in the Air by Samara Choudhury

If I Were a Bird by Luca Cy Fong-Causone

The Library Girls by Emily Kilpatrick

Trust Me by Rebecca Arian

Jonah's Move by Henry Eisenbeis


The 2016 Young Writers Awards were generously supported by Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner and Paul A. Wagner

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