Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Booth Tarkington Prize for Young Writers
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2020 Booth Tarkington Prize for Young Writers!
ELEMENTARY
Poetry
*Winner — Prudence Peng, “Pandemics”
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Fiction
*Winner — Nura Paarlberg, “The Haunted House”
*Runner-Up — Prudence Peng, “The Magic of Mathematics”
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Poetry
*Winner — Max Habel, “I Was Blind”
*Runner-Up — Sade Okeyemi, “A Note to My Past Self”
*Honorable Mention — Riley Newcomer, “Stage Fright”
*Honorable Mention — Lea Bostian, “The Current”
*Honorable Mention — Sade Okeyemi, “Your Two Sides”
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Fiction
*Winner — Avery Barbosa-Hayes, “Girl of My Dreams”
*Runner-Up — Evelina Rubchinsky, “…You Might Just Get It”
HIGH SCHOOL
Poetry
*Winner — Eros Preston, “the lover”
*Runner-Up — Hailey Gaither, “Praise the Moon”
*Honorable Mention — Leo Rubchinsky, “Devils Tower”
*Honorable Mention — Natalie Liddle, “The Darkness”
*Honorable Mention — Emmerick Beltz, “Dady Why?”
*Honorable Mention — Aniya Jones, “Looking Deep”
*Honorable Mention –Zoie Alger, “Through the Broken Glass”
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Fiction
*Winner — Lindsay Brandt, “Vigil Security”
*Runner-Up — Amya Stephens, “Of Rain and Roses”
*Honorable Mention — Adam Betz, “Breathe
*Honorable Mention — Jillian Hagerty, “The Glass Ballerina”
*Honorable Mention — Delaney Davis, “Untitled”
CONGRATULATIONS to these writers and all who submitted. We had over 70 INCREDIBLE submissions this year, and we are so grateful to have been trusted with your work.