2010 Competition Winners

Columbia Basin College and LitFest proudly host the annual Student Writing Competition. This competition is open to local high school or CBC students who feel they could be budding novelists, poets, and/or journalists. Entries are accepted during the month of March.

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Writing Competition

Grand Prize
(Best entries from all levels and categories)
Melody Camp - "Essence of Being Human"
Andrew Coates - "Sex on Hold"

Junior Level

Fiction
1st Place: Katherine Morgan - "The Last Hour of Charlotte Olivia McQueen"
2nd Place: Zachary Smith - "A Story of Greed"

Non-Fiction
1st Place: Kristyn Bohlander - "The Red Pontiac"
2nd Place: Caroline Exarhos - "Supermom"

Poetry
1st Place: Christina Alvarez - "Existence"
2nd Place: Brenna Feeney - "The Drive to Succeed"

Senior Level

Fiction
1st Place: Jessica Weber - "Tidal Waves"
2nd Place: Ariel Townsend - "Memoir of a Dead Girl"

Non-Fiction
1st Place: Melody Camp - "Essence of Being Human"
2nd Place: Michael Glass - "Fall Creek"

Poetry
1st Place: Sydney Bader - "Exuberant Life"
2nd Place: Michael Glass - "The Class"

CBC Students

Fiction
1st Place: Cassandra Mehlenbacher - "Fear and Conquering"
2nd Place: Andrew Coates - "Burn the Guilty"

Non-Fiction
1st Place: Andrew Coates - "Sex on Hold"
2nd Place: Alex Dissing - "A Lane Worth Traveling Down"

Poetry
1st Place: Kelly Sorenson - "You and Your Waylon Jennings"
2nd Place: Kristin Mann - "Family Portrait", "Nightmare"

Contact: Gwen James, Competition Coordinator, at 509.542.4709 or the Arts and Humanities Division office at 509.542.5531.

Past Winners

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009