Winners and honourable mentions will be announced in the Okanagan Valley Sunday News and will be listed at www.penwriters.com
The work of the finalists listed below will be featured in the upcoming Gems of the Okanagan Anthology :2008 Volume 3. All are invited to attend a weekend Youth Write Camp July 11-13, 2008, sponsored by Raise a Reader.
Please contact Yasmin John-Thorpe at yasie1@shaw.ca as soon as possible.
Poetry 10-13
Haley Speers: 12, Summerland Middle School
Jenaya Copithorne: 10, Penticton Christian School
Anastasia K. Holler: 12, Summerland Middle School
Clara Salter: 13, Summerland Middle School
Jolene Hayter: 13, KVR Middle School, Penticton
Carissa Kocsis: 13, McNicoll Park Middle School, Penticton
Fiction 10-13
Rachael Lesosky: 13, Const. Neil Bruce Middle School, Kelowna
Samantha Macpherson: 13, Kelowna Waldorf School
Jasper Meiklejohn: 12, Home Learner’s Program, Penticton
Jenaya Copithorne: 10, Penticton Christian School
Conner McMillen: 12, Skaha Lake Middle School, Penticton
Theo Christensen: 10, Bearisto Elementary School, Vernon
Brooke Cederholm: 12, Okanagan Falls Elementary School
Poetry 14-17
Roman Blomme: 17, Summerland Secondary School
Kayla Switzer: 14, Okanagan Mission Secondary School, Kelowna
Hannah Alfred: 14, Okanagan Mission Secondary School, Kelowna
Taylor Attrill: 16, Princess Margaret Secondary School, Penticton
Avery Beardmore: 17, Kelowna Secondary School
Jenna Pearce: 17, Heritage Christian Online School, Summerland
Heather Cochrane: 14, Skaha Lake Middle School, Penticton
Ashley Pearson: 16, Princess Margaret Secondary School, Penticton
Colten Pighin: 15, Osoyoos Secondary School
Taylor Fabbi: 15, Summerland Secondary School
Fiction 14-17
Roman Blomme: 17, Summerland Secondary School
Shayden Pinch: 14, Springvalley Middle School, Kelowna
Tanya Ludwig: 15, Mount Boucherie Senior Secondary School, Westbank
Heather Cochrane: 14, Skaha Lake Middle School. Penticton
Caitlin Meiklejohn: 15, Self Design Teen Praxis Program, Penticton
Christine Dewitt: 14, Eagle River Secondary School, Sicamous
Tessa Peterson: 14, Penticton Secondary School
Chelsey Baron: 15, Summerland Secondary School
Thomas Ziebarth: 15, Summerland Secondary School
Daniel Atkinson: 17, Princess Margaret Secondary School, Penticton