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YOUNG WRITERS
The Guild is open to suggestions on how to encourage young writers in the Saline County community. Young writers are always welcome at Guild meetings. Inspiring young writers is a Guild priority.
Bueker Middle School
Marshall High School
Slater | Alexander Elementary School
St. Peter Catholic School
Bueker Middle School With the assistance of 7th and 8th grade English Language Arts teachers, the Marshall Writers' Guild sponsors an annual writing contest at Bueker Middle School. There are two categories: fiction and non-fiction, and two winners from each grade. Semi-finalists are selected by Bueker with the Guild choosing finalists. A $25 award is given to each winner.

2024 Winter Writing Contest Winners
2024 Writing Contest
Paislee Brunson, Drayton Charlton, Josie Miller, Kynlee Marshall

2023 Winter Writing Contest Winners
2023 Writing Contest
Ivan Lin, Almary Benjamin; Brianna Carrillo, Piper Brunson; Guild President Ed Richards

2022 Winter Writing Contest Winners
2022 Writing Contest: 7th and 8th Grade Winners -- Jasmine Davis for Best Non-Fiction, Zy'Keriyah Napier for Best Fiction, Diana Blanco for Best Non-Fiction, Peyton Marshall for Best Creative Writing. Awards presenter, Guild Treasurer Carole Schaefer, says the welcome she received from Bueker students, teachers, and staff was heartwarming in 2022.

2019 Winter Writing Contest Winners
2019 Writing Contest Winners: Back row: (Guild President Melanie Dees Campbell) Talon Abarca, Dustin Campbell, Alyssa Lawson, (Guild Treasurer Carole Kays Schaefer); Front row: Kimberly Riley, Marissa Tobar, Halley Campbell, Delaney Snyder. Not pictured is Cheyenne Brown.
Categories: 5th and 6th Grades -- Creative Writing | Alyssa Flippen, Non-Fiction | Talen Abarca, Personal Narrative | Cheyenne Brown, Poetry | Dustin Campbell . 7th and 8th Grades -- Creative Writing, Kimberly Riley | Non-Fiction, Halley Campbell | Personal Narrative, Marissa Tobar | Poetry, Delaney Snyder

2018 Winter Writing Contest Winners
2018 Writing Contest Winners: Delaney Snyder, Vanessa Andrade, Shawnia William, Caiah Dunlap, Dustin Campbell, (Guild President Sidney West Sullivan, Guild Vice President Carol Mallman Raynor) Marissa Tobar, Ryan Smith, (Katie Berger, Library Media Specialist)
Categories: 5th and 6th Grades -- Creative Writing, Dustin Campbell | Personal Narrative, Shawnia Williams/Vanessa Andrade | Poetry, Caiah Dunlap . 7th and 8th Grades -- Creative Writing, Marissa Tobar | Personal Narrative, Ryan Smith | Poetry, Delaney Snyder

2017 Winter Writing Contest Winners
2017 Writing Contest Winners: Back Row: Honor Payne, Alexis McGill, Destiny Glanden, Jenna Johnson (Guild President Sidney West Sullivan); Front Row: Jasmin Perdomo, Abby Kessler, Adilynn Bolling, Crystal Castillo
Categories: 5th and 6th Grades -- Creative Writing, Adilynn Bolling | Nonfiction, Crystal Castillo | Personal Narrative, Jasmin Perdomo | Poetry, Honor Payne . 7th and 8th Grades -- Creative Writing, Alexis McGill | Nonfiction, Abby Kessler | Personal Narrative, Jenna Johnson | Poetry, Destiny Glanden

2016 Writing Contest Winners: Categories: 5th and 6th Grades -- Creative Writing, Hailey Arndt | Nonfiction, Abigail Kessler | Personal Narrative, Marissa Tobar | Poetry, Aareyanna Larimore . 7th and 8th Grades == Creative Writing, Drew Arends | Nonfiction, Drew Arends | Personal Narrative, Montana Plattner | Poetry, Elizabeth McDonald
On Monday, May 23, and Thursday, May 26, 2016, Guild member and journalist Chuck Scudder offers a two-day course on Journalism 100 to Bueker Middle School students at the Marshall Public Library. This two-day course is sponsored by the Guild with Katie Berger, Bueker's Library Media Specialist.

2015 Writing Challenge Winners
2015 Writing Contest Winners: (Librarian Media Specialist Katie Berger) Josh Garcia, Corey Thieman, Vanesa Reyes, (Guild Member Carol Raynor) Andrea Umana, Tiffany Young (Guild Member Authorene Phillips). Not pictured are Trinity Stewart and Connor Gastineau. BMS Presents Winter Writing Contest, The Marshall Democrat News, 3/13/2015
Categories: 5th and 6th Grades -- Creative Writing, Josh Garcia | Nonfiction, Cory Thieman | Personal Narrative, Vanessa Reyes | Poetry, Michael Putnam . 7th and 8th Grades -- Creative Writing, Tiffany Young | Nonfiction, Connor Gastineau, Trinity Stewart | Poetry, Andrea Umana
Marshall High School: The Marshall Writers' Guild sponsors the annual Authorene Wilson Phillips Writing Award given to the Marshall High School student selected by the school for this honor. Commencing with Mrs. Jackie Guthrey and, following her retirement, continuing with others from the MHS English Department and award coordinator Julia Riley, the Guild is grateful for this opportunity to encourage student prose and poetry.
Gentrie DavisThe 2024 recipient is Gentrie Davis, author of The Value of Being a Volunteer in Your Home and Community, which the Guild is proud to publish. Follow the author's Facebook page at Gmae's Baking and Milling.
2023 Recipient: Faith Sappington, author of Dragonfly Field
2022 Recipient: Maxwell Betz
2021 Recipient: Trevor Borgman, author of Friendship
2019 Recipient: Adison Stocksdale, author of The Procrastination Queen
2018 Recipient: Eli Jackson, author of Paco the Walking Taco
2017 Recipient: Jalal "Jay" Alhamzawi, author of The Places Life Can Take You. Alhamzawi's poetry appears in the Guild's 18th anthology, Saline County Structures and Stories, Volume II.
2016 Recipient: Jacob Holloway, author of Jacob Holloway's Poetry
2015 Recipient: Abigail Henke, author of To Be "Incandescently Happy"
2014 Recipient: Cindy Umana, author of Blue
2013 Recipient: Abrea Mizer, author and presenter of the Class of 2013 Valedictorian Speech
2012 Recipient: Megan Hager, author of In Which a Late Night Becomes Ludicrous
2011 Recipient: Chanelle Koehn
2010 Recipient: Lexie McDanel, author of Poppzies
2009 Recipient: Flannery Crump

Slater | Alexander Elementary School: In association with Principal Becky Drummond and writing coordinator and teacher Cheryl Anderson, the Marshall Writers' Guild sponsors an annual writing contest for 7th and 8th grade students whose writing the school judges best. Beginning in 2019 a $25 award is given to the winner in each grade. The 2023 winners are Maggie Hill, 7th grade, and Reagan Holt, 8th grade.
2024 Writing Challenge Winners Keagan Holt and Maggie Hill
2024: 8th grade winner Reagan Holt and 7th grade winner Maggie Hill
 
2023 Writing Challenge Winner Kenzie Thies2023 Writing Challenge Winner Malachi Wright-Fowler
2023 Writing award winners
Kenzie Thies for The Key | Malachi Wright-Fowler for Catch Me If You Can
 
2022 Writing Challenge Winner November Gier2022 Writing Challenge Winner Robert Psnnrll IV
2022: Guild president Ed Richards with award winners November Gier for The Rusty Door and Robert Pannell IV for The Hole in the Wall
 
2019 Writing Challenge Winner Alexis Eddy
2019: Guild president Ed Richards, Writing Teacher Cheryl Anderson,
7th grade award winner Alexis Eddy with The Birthday Abandonment,
Communication Arts Teacher Kathy Thomas
 
2019 Writing Challenge Winner Madelyn Miller
2019: Principal Becky Drummond,
8th grade award winner Madelyn Miller with Hideout,
Writing Teacher Cheryl Anderson
 
2018 Writing Challenge Winners
2018: Guild president Ed Richards, award winner Mattie Thies,
Communication Arts Teacher Kathy Thomas, Principal Becky Drummond
 
2017 Writing Challenge Winners
2017: Guild president Ed Richards, award winner Caleb Bales,
Communication Arts Teacher Kathy Thomas, Principal Becky Drummond
 
St. Peter Catholic School: The Marshall Writers' Guild sponsors an annual writing contest for 7th and 8th grade students whose writing the school judges best. A $25 award is given to the winner.
 
2024 Writing Award
2024: Award winner Jack Thompson
 
2023 Writing Award
2023: Award winner Jack Thompson and Guild president Ed Richards
 
2019 Writing Award
2019: Language Arts Teacher Theresa McGuire, Guild president Ed Richards,
Award winner Savannah Reinke, Principal Mary McCoy
 
Certificate and Award
2019: Principal Mary McCoy, Award winner Savannah Reinke, Guild president Ed Richards
 
2018 Writing Award
2018 Award winner Savannah Reinke
Guild president Ed Richards
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