2020 Literary Contest Awards The Patton Family Awards Phil Patton Award for Overall Best Story Jessica Mitchell, Sisters , Twelfth, Lisa Covington

Mildred Dwyer Patton Award for Overall Second Place Lillian Holmes, Jar of Firelies Broughton High School, Eleventh, Babs Nichols

Dave Patton Award for Best Story by a Varsity Athlete Laura Cooper, Double Trouble Enloe High School, Twelfth, Lisa Covington

First Place Awards by Grade

Brooke Chow Twelfth Enloe High School Inescapable Joyce Nelson Aliyaa Pathan Eleventh Jeweled Pigeon Jennifer Lowry Neha Jonnalagedda Tenth Enloe High School Seaside Genise Thorsen

Second Place Awards by Grade

Eve Boyer Twelfth A Game of Luck Joshua Matteau Eliza Meyer Eleventh Broughton High School Return to Sender: A Letter Babs Nichols Written to the West Baton Rouge Parish Jail Sapphira Gates Tenth The Future Awaits John Cook Finalists In alphabetical order

Josh Bhatt Tenth Green Level High School The Light Within Premi Singh Abigail Celoria Twelfth North Raleigh Christian Tomato Vampires Abigail Linton Haoran Deng Twelfth Enloe High School A Night to Remember Lisa Covington Talia DeStasio Eleventh Raleigh Charter High School Terra Novus Kristine Chalifoux Margaret Devitt Eleventh Cardinal Gibbons High School Finch’s Wings Tripp Reade Sophia Durham Tenth Green Level High School Camino Ciego Premi Singh Charlotte Foxx Tenth Enloe High School The Italian Carousel Trudy Price-O’Neil Madison Goodwin Twelfth Enloe High School High-Heeled Politics Joyce Nelson Haydn Hubbard Eleventh St. David’s High School The Color Blue Hunter Whitworth Manaal Iqbal Twelfth Enloe High School White Kurti Lisa Covington Ian Jones Twelfth Enloe High School Music’s Heart Joyce Nelson Paris Oliver Twelfth Apex Friendship High School Wandering Through Cassandra McClellan Evan Stogsdill Tenth Wake Forest High School Nike’s Guidance John Cook Eric Wang Twelfth Enloe High School Strange People Lisa Covington School Awards

Enloe High School Broughton High School Phil Patton Award for Best Mildred Dwyer Patton Award for Overall Story Overall Second Place Story Dave Patton Award for Best Story Second Place Eleventh Grade by a Varsity Athlete First Place Twelfth Grade First Place Tenth Grade

Athens Drive High School Middle Creek High School First Place Eleventh Grade Second Place Twelfth Grade

Wake Forest High School Second Place Tenth Grade

Semi-Finalists

Elise Anthony, 12th, Longleaf Eve Lekach, 11th, Wake Forest High School of the Arts School James Dill, 11th, Holly Springs Dugan Lentz, 10th, Green Level High High School School Darby Ferguson, 12th, Leesville Naeman Mahmood, 12th, Enloe High Road High School School Peyton Funderburk, 12th, Yamini Ramadurai, 10th, Raleigh Leesville High School Charter High School Melvinna Garibaldi, 11th, Enloe Madeline Townsend, 10th, Brough- High School ton High School Disha Gupta, 11th, Green Hope Jerry Zhao, 12th, Enloe High School High School Mariam Hattab, 10th, Raleigh Charter High School Hannah Kaufman, 12th, Enloe High School