Faire celebrates middle school writers

The 2015 Jim Thrower Rotary Writing Faire honored Sonoma Valley’s best middle school authors at the Sonoma Community Center on May 20.   The winning pieces were read by the young authors on the Rotary Stage in Andrew Theater. As in the past, all middle schools in the Valley were represented. Hundreds of writing submissions were judged by local authors Vicki Whiting, Kathleen Hill, Chic Gast, Andy Weinberger, Abigail Samoun, Lorna Sheridan and Rosie Lee, and organizers Kathy Eschleman and Cathy Wedell of Adele Harrison Middle School.|
LORNA SHERIDAN
INDEX-TRIBUNE EDUCATION EDITOR

The 2015 Jim Thrower Rotary Writing Faire honored Sonoma Valley’s best middle school authors at the Sonoma Community Center on May 20. 

 The winning pieces were read by the young authors on the Rotary Stage in Andrew Theater. As in the past, all middle schools in the Valley were represented. Hundreds of writing submissions were judged by local authors Vicki Whiting, Kathleen Hill, Chic Gast, Andy Weinberger, Abigail Samoun, Lorna Sheridan and Rosie Lee, and organizers Kathy Eschleman and Cathy Wedell of Adele Harrison Middle School.

 Eschleman expressed gratitude to the middle school teachers who inspired these young authors, as well as Readers’ Books and especially Sonoma Rotary for their continued efforts to celebrate the youth of Sonoma.

 The first place winners:

Justine Broadman, Fiction

Megan Dewees, Descriptive

Ryan Hengehold, Biography

Simone Raup, Book/Movie/CD Review

Ivy O’Donnell, Persuasive

Sydney Boldt, Original Comic Strip

Megan Dewees, Serious Poetry

Ryan Pfleger, Humorous Poetry

Chris Raney, Sports Editorial

Elia Harb, Personal Narrative

Simone Raup, Rotary 4 Way Test

McKenna Wybierala, Informational

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