Writing Contest Winners and Honorable Mentions

Playwriting and Screenwriting:
"Abacus Chickering" by William Bourgeois

Nonfiction
Winner: Caitlin Charette “Terrible Beauty: the Nature of Human Sacrifice”
Honorable Mention: William Bourgeois “Andrew Jackson and Jacksonian Democracy”

Poetry
Winner: Rachael Roy “The Realm”
Honorable Mention: Lisa Hsieh “Millet”, Bethany Lyon “Be Six Dreams”

Fiction
Winner: Nicholas Jalbert “Machiavelli”
Honorable Mention: Jeremy Gilfor “Nighthawks”, Sommer Mahoney “America, the Beautiful”, Michaela Rollings “Ribbons”

Creative Nonfiction/Memoir
Winner: Ryan Choi “Mushroom Soup”
Honorable Mention: William Bourgeois “Departure", Evan Filkins “Playground Romance”, MinAh Kim “To Repay My Luck”

BMS Fiction
Winner: Erin Keating “Sheyann Webb”
Honorable Mention: Miles Nallen “Stokely Carmichael Nonfiction Narrative”, Gianni Kierkla “Stokely Carmichael-First Person”

BMS Poetry
Winner: Madeline McCloskey for "Leaf"
Honorable Mention: Alina Shirley "The Unknown Soldier", Erin Keating "Storm Recipe"

BMS Script/Screenplay
Humanities 7 “Choices: Courageous or Coward?”