Walpole Cultural Council (WCC) would like to congratulate the winners of Walpole Writes 2024! Started in 2021, the Walpole Writes program is a town-wide writing contest open to all residents of Walpole (as well as non-resident students of all Walpole schools). Writers of all ages (elementary-school through adult) submitted entries in the categories of short stories and poems. The council was pleased to receive over 60 entries this year!
Winning entries were published in book form and distributed to each of our winners, who were celebrated at a reception at the Walpole Public Library on Thursday, June 20th. We will also be featuring their work on our social media. We encourage you to follow us online, read the winning entries, and participate in the many Walpole Cultural Council-sponsored events available to our community!
Winning Entries:
Elementary School (K-2): Poem
First Place: Miles Stebbings, “Orchestra”
Second Place: Julia Miller, “Dandy the Lion”
Third Place: Amaira Sharma, “What is Sky Blue!”
Elementary School (3-5): Poem
First Place: Colin Jefferies, “The Four Seasons”
Second Place: Viraj Singh, “Baby Yoda”
Third Place: Stella Norrman and Aarna Sharma, “Basketball”
Middle School: Poem
First Place: Sanaaya Hora, “Flame of the Sky”
Second Place: Abby Simpson, “Dear Thornton”
Third Place: Zoey Trotta, “Ode to Tucker”
High School: Poem
First Place: Nirjara Akkole, “The Spice Box Symphony”
Second Place: Nirjara Akkole, “shadows beyond the court”
Third Place: Swara Sonchhatra, “A Journal of our Vegas and Arizona Trip”
Adult: Poem
First Place: Kathleen Lutz, “September Dream”
Second Place: Cheryl Campbell, “Fishin in a Dress”
Third Place (tie): Cheryl Campbell, “Matriarch”
And Mike Connolly, “Redundancy”
Elementary School (K-2): Short Story
First Place: Bryce Mackey, “All About Disney World”
Second Place: Sameer Goyal, “The Creepy Doll”
Third Place: Raisa Malen, “The Adventures of the Fluffytales”
Elementary School (3-5): Short Story
First Place: Dhaanvi Vinod, “Bubble Adventures”
Second Place (tie): Shanaya Sonchhatra, “A Unicorn – Special and Unique”
And Lillian Clifford, “The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood”
Third Place: Sahana Pande, “MCAS!!!”
Middle School: Short Story
First Place: Madeleine Smith, “The Test”
Second Place: Aadhav Jegan, “Spy Mission”
Third Place (tie): Leyla Antonetti, “A Hidden World”
And Angela Joji, “My Story”
High School: Short Story
First Place: Maria Alejandra Quinones, “Blue Hydrangea”
Adult: Short Story
First Place: Michele Morisi, “Between Beauty: An Excerpt”
Second Place (tie): Cheryl Campbell, “The Power of a Head Bob”
And Lik Fun Chan-Do, “The Secret Staircase”
Third Place: Kent Finkle, “Guys Like You”
