Congratulations to the Awardees

Poetry

Age 12

1^st - Tahreem Butt, The Thing About Time

Age 13

1^st - Jonathan Middleton, The Campfire

2^nd - Ella Meyer, Perception

Honourable Mention:

• Shuaib Hadi, Default skin Clerihew poem

Age 14

1^st - Leyna Burke, Who am I?

2^nd - Hridya Rajesh, Never Equal

Honourable Mentions:

• Cynthia Schaefer, Colours
• Alethea Hindra, Whispers

Age 15

1^st - Len Lu, My contributions to the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

2^nd - Joshua Middleton, Technophobia

Honourable Mentions:

• Isabella Gomez, In These Halls
• Olivia Gringhuis, afterimage
• Abigail Van Raalte, My Grandpa’s Beauty
• Gladys Kozyra, Self-worth

Age 16

1^st - Casey Kisielewski, night(time)
*Young Poet Award co-winner (awarded by the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature Science and Art)

2^nd - Yasmin Amin, Brown Eyes and Tea

Honourable Mentions:

• Sarah Reid, Lingering Sometime
• Maryam Jamil, brown ink

Age 17

1^st - Madison Barlow, told to keep the name they never asked for – dedicated to the Residential school victims

2^nd - Erin Lou, You and Crake and the Dancing Children

Honourable Mention: 

• Anna Hurnanen, The Dreamer & The Mountain

Age 18

1^st Kristen Van Kampen, Giraffes for Tea
*Young Poet Award co-winner (awarded by the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature Science and Art)

2^nd Daisy Li, November Before November

Poetry (French)

1^st - Natalie Begley, Saga du Sang Blanc et Autrement

2^nd - Abby Ciona, La fin de l’été

Short Story

Age 12

1^st Coen Dignan, Man’s Last Stand

2^nd Clay Schulz, Judgement Day

Age 13

1^st - Hannah Zatingh, Our First Winter

2^nd - Evelyn Davenport, Nayla

Honourable Mention:

• Hana Hvezda, The Bus Stop

Age 14

1^st - Ana Kovacevic, Guilty as Charged

2^nd - Olivia Belrose, The Wanderer

Honourable Mentions:

• Althea Hindra, The Puzzling Disappearance
• Maia Whitman, In the Dark

Age 15

1^st - Zoe Smith, Never Safe
*Maitland Banting Silver Quill honourable mention (awarded by the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature Science and Art)

2^nd - Len Lu, Dear Aaron
*Maitland Banting Silver Quill honourable mention (awarded by the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature Science and Art)

Age 16

1^st - Sarah Reid, Dusty Memories

2^nd - Kezia Hart, The Heist

Honourable Mention:

• Casey Kisielewski, Thing/Story/Criminal

Age 17

1^st - Anna Hurnanen, Nameless

2^nd - Madison Barlow, the first time i experienced therapy was when i was twelve years old

Honourable Mention:

• Vanessa Koens, The Opposites

Age 18

1^st - Daisy Li, The Lights We See

2^nd - Natalie Begley, I Am Afraid of Virginia Woolf
*Maitland Banting Silver Quill Award winner (awarded by the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature Science and Art)

Honourable Mention:

• Sarah Walker, Weight

Short Story (French)

1^st - Casey Kisielewski, La Lune

2^nd - Abby Ciona, Le tamia et la boulangère-pâtissière

HAALSA Young Poet's Award:

Kristen Van Kampen, Giraffes for Tea

Casey Kisielewski, night(time)

Maitland Banting Silver Quill Award:

Natalie Begley, I Am Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Honourable Mentions:

• Zoe Smith, Never Safe
• Len Lu, Dear Aaron

For previous years, please visit the Local History & Archives Department at the 3^rd floor of the Central Library.