2020 Power of the Pen Winners
List of Awardees:
Poetry
Age 12
1st Shanzay Zia, I Want To Go Back
2nd Shuaib Hadi, The Furry, Little Cat
Age 13
1st & 2nd No entries.
Honourable Mentions: No entries
Age 14
1st Gladys Kozyra, Where I’m From
2nd Olivia Gringhuis, Broken Made Beautiful
Honourable Mention: Bennie, Stumbling Towards the Dark
Age 15
1st Sarah Reid, Storm Comin’
2nd Hailey Leslie, It’d be Cool
Age 16
1st Michael Chen, The Walking Stick
2nd Nour Elbadan, Susceptible Host
Age 17
1st Ben Hemsworth, A Cog’s Life
2nd Daisy Li, Buds
Honourable Mention: Natalie Begley, Under Thunder
Age 18
1st Sarah VanDoodewaard, Pediatric Ward Level 3 Room 14
2nd Mikaela Hart, crepuscule
*Young Poet Award winner (awarded by the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature Science and Art)
Poetry (French)
1st Natalie Begley, Les Directions
2nd Solange Toussaint, Le cours de la vie
Honourable Mention: Jessie Kerr, La voix de vent
Short Story
Age 12
1st Hafsah Satia, Is there no place to call home
2nd Jonathan Middleton, Slinky Man
Age 13
1st Alethea Hindra, It All Started With Two Words
2nd Rachel Campbell, My Historically Accurate Story
Age 14
1st Helen Lu, The Yellow Grass Field
2nd Joshua Middleton, Soulless Music
Honourable Mentions:
Olivia Gringhuis, The List
Zoe Smith, The Pale Man
Ava Feir, When the Morning Comes
Age 15
1st Sarah Reid, Two Squared
2nd Sofia DiGiacomo, How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse
Honourable Mentions:
Niky Mathioudakis, Coming Soon To A Screen Near You!
Nakeita VanderBoom, In Another’s Mind
Paul (Kyum) Lee, The Death of a Bionic
Kezia Hart, Some Say the World Will End in Fire
Age 16
1st Jocelyn Mattka, Feather
2nd Samantha Hounsome, The Fable of the Fox and the Woods
Honourable Mention: Vanessa Koens, A Bet with a Stranger
Age 17
1st Rand Amer, Tales of Being Black in a White World
*Maitland Banting Silver Quill Award winner (awarded by the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature Science and Art)
2nd Abby Ciona, Birding Legends
Age 18
1st Sarah VanDoodewaard, The Audition
2nd Mikaela Hart, Silene Capensis
Honourable Mention: Piper Sicard, The Skinnerman
Short Story (French)
1st Sarah Walker, déséquilibre
2nd Joshua Middleton, Pas seul
Honourable Mention: Ava Violet, La chevalière qui a essayé de sauver le dragon
HAALSA Young Poet's Award: Mikaela Hart, crepuscule
Honourable Mention: Gladys Kozyra, Where I’m From
Maitland Banting Silver Quill Award: Rand Amer, Tales of Being Black in a White World
Honourable Mentions:
Sarah VanDoodewaard, The Audition
Mikaela Hart, Silene Capensis
For previous years, please visit the Local History & Archives Department at the 3rd floor of the Central Library.