A total of 13 students from various grade levels were honored for their creative writing during the 2018-19 school year in the annual Neenah Public Library Proces Poetry Prize Contest.
The Proces Poetry Prize is named in honor of now-retired Library Director Stephen Proces, who strongly supported children's services, programming and early literacy. The contest is held every April and is promoted through Neenah Joint School District and surrounding communities for children through 12th grade. About 80 entries were submitted from students in the District as well as students in surrounding communities’ schools, and home schoolers.
Poems can be written at any time during the school year with the deadline for submissions being April 30 of each year. The winning poems are chosen because of their unique ability to express or evoke an emotional response in the reader. Winning students receive a certificate and a book of their choosing. The contest is conducted and supported by the Neenah Public Library Board of Trustees.
An awards ceremony will be held in September in the Library's Shattuck Community Room. Books will be distributed to the winners at that time. All entries will be on display in the Library.
Below are the winners of the 2018-19 contest:
Samuel Evenson, kindergarten - “The Race Car”
Lydia Evenson, second grade - “Mermaids”
Cecelia Preman, third grade (Coolidge) - “Spring Is Here”
Charles Maas, third grade (Coolidge) - “My Brother”
Vera Lynn Reiter, fourth grade (Wilson) - “A Nature Walk”
Kennedy Louden, fourth grade (Wilson) - “The Forest”
Anthem Kotze, fifth grade (Clayton) - “I Remember When”
Esther Evenson, fifth grade - “Who’s Been Eating Mustard”
Lucy Fiedler, fifth grade - “Hiding in a Rainbow”
Jasilyn Griesbach, eighth grade (Shattuck) - “Spring Break”
Ashlyn Jacobs, ninth grade (NHS) - “To The Little Girl Me”
Emily Johns, 11th grade (NHS) - “Empty Text”
Ben Kuehn, 11th grade (NHS) - “Your Cautious Eyes”
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