Three Agnes Irwin Lower School students have taken top awards this year in the Gladwyne Library League’s 42nd Annual Junior Author Contest for young writers.
Third graders Hadley McCormack and Annalee Stuardi-Drumm won first place for their grade level in poetry and fiction, respectively, and fourth grader Annabelle Kress won third place for non-fiction. The contest was open to children in grades one through five.
Stuardi-Drumm said of the day she found out she had won, “My mom was on the phone and she started cheering. I asked ‘Mom, why are you cheering?’ Then she told me it was because I had won the contest and so of course I started cheering too! It was a great day!”
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McCormack, a second-time Junior Author Contest winner, won first place for her poem “The Feast Book,” about breakfast, lunch and dinner. Annalee Stuardi-Drumm won first place with her entry The Dictionary, a short story about what happens to a girl who travels into a dictionary.
Kress won third place for her non-fiction piece My Peanut Allergy, a true story about her peanut allergy.
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“Ms. Haines had given us the assignment to write a story but I chose to enter it in the contest. I didn’t think I’d win but I just love to write,” said Kress. “I wanted to write about my peanut allergy so other kids could learn about it and see how I handle it on a daily basis. Also, for other kids who have peanut allergies to read it and to know they are not alone.”
The winners will all have their work bound and housed in the Gladwyne Free Library.
