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Prize-Winning Essays Written During Each Festival’S Activities and Competitions 2017 Edition A Festival of Writing fromPrize-Winning the Thirty-Ninth Annual Essays YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY Youngstown State University ENGLISH ENGLISH FESTIVAL FESTIVAL Featuring FOUNDED 1978 The Thomas and Carol Gay Lecturer E. Lockhart The James A. Houck Lecturer #YSUEF2018 Gene Luen Lang @YSUEngFestival 10th–12 th Grades Wednesday, April 26, 2017 7th–9th Grades Thursday, April 27, or Friday, April 28, 2017 9:00 a.m.–3:45 p.m. Kilcawley Center Youngstown State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, disability, age, religion or veteran/military status in its programs or activities. Please visit www.ysu.edu/ada-accessibility for contact information for persons designated to handle questions about this policy. E. Lockhart Gene Luen Yang Kaitlyn Huff For more information on National Ambassador for Grade 10 this speaker, please visit Young People’s Literature Niles McKinley High School First Prize <www.prhspeakers.com> “Supported by Every Child a Reader and the Library of Congress” Julie Pham Grade 7 St. Patrick School, Kent First Prize A Festival of Writing 2017 Contents Introduction .....................................................................................................................................1 2017 Booklist ....................................................................................................................................1 Candace Gay Memorial Awards ................................................................................................2 First Prize Essays ......................................................................................................................2 Second Prize Essays ................................................................................................................7 Third Prize Essays ....................................................................................................................10 Williamson Fund Impromptu Prize-Winners ........................................................................14 First Prize Essays ......................................................................................................................15 Second Prize Essays ................................................................................................................17 Third Prize Essays ....................................................................................................................19 The Tribune Chronicle Journalism Workshop Prize-Winners ..........................................22 First Prize Articles ....................................................................................................................22 Second Prize Articles ..............................................................................................................26 Third Prize Articles ..................................................................................................................30 “Write Like Gene Luen Yang” Graphic Essay Contest First Prize .....................................34 The English Festival Writing Award for Teachers .................................................................37 First Prize Article ......................................................................................................................37 A Festival of Writing 2017 INTRODUCTION or nearly all of its more than thirty years, the Youngstown State University FEnglish Festival Committee has published a collection of the prize-winning essays written during each Festival’s activities and competitions. Such a publication is wholly in keeping with the Festival’s stated goal to 2017 “recognize and reward distinctive writing.” It is also a means for publicizing the extraordinary work that Youngstown-area students do at the Festival, both in preparing themselves by reading the works on the English Festival booklist and in composing thoughtful and engaging essays before and during the Festival. The essays included in this 2017 edition of A Festival of Writing are no exception. They reflect the excellent language facility of our area’s students, as well as their careful reading and critical thinking. The YSU English Festival Committee congratulates those students whose work appears in these pages, and it commends the parents and teachers who have supported these young writers. Jeff Buchanan Angela Messenger Gary Salvner Co-Chairs of the English Festival Committee 2017 English Festival Booklist 7th–9th Grades 10th–12th Grades The Disreputable History The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks* of Frankie Landau-Banks* E. Lockhart E. Lockhart We Were Liars* We Were Liars* E. Lockhart E. Lockhart The Shadow Hero Boxers Gene Luen Yang Gene Luen Yang The War that Saved My Life Saints Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Gene Luen Yang Enchanted Air I’ll Give You the Sun Margarita Engle Jandy Nelson House Arrest All the Bright Places K. A. Holt Jennifer Niven Miss Peregrine’s Home for Midwinterblood Peculiar Children Marcus Sedgwick Ransom Riggs *indicates a title common to both lists 1 A Festival of Writing 2017 2017 Candace Gay Memorial Essay Prompt Art plays various roles in young adult literature. Describe how at least two authors use art—specific pieces of art, the artistic process, artists as characters, etc.—in ways that contribute to the overall meaning and impact of their works which appear on the 2017 YSU English Festival booklist. Candace McIntyre Gay Mike Stoffa, Oil on canvas, 1978 Rockport, Massachusetts First Prize Essays Wednesday Sophia McGee Boardman High School Art Feeds the Soul of Literature Art is more than a colorful canvas, crucial to authors Marcus Sedgwick Each piece of the novel’s puzzle fits a collection of noises, or a hodgepodge and Jandy Nelson as they shaped their seamlessly with the rest; without such of words. Art is the soul of its creator in transcendent novels. meticulous connections, this story a tangible, shareable form. As author The intricately interwoven details would be a disjointed collection of Jandy Nelson phrased such thoughts and boundless love of Midwinterblood individual lives. However, Sedgwick on page 353 of her novel I’ll Give You the by Marcus Sedgwick all stemmed artfully builds each period in his work Sun, art is “not just art, but life-magic.” from a real Swedish painting by Carl around objects such as the mysterious Through their masterpieces, an artist Larsson, Midvinterblot. This piece Dragon Orchid, allowing readers to see exposes their deepest emotions and inspired Sedgwick to craft his fictional the broader picture as each fragment draws forth an unparalleled power, the masterpiece in which Eirikr and Melle falls into place. It is this expert weaving power to heal, to unify, or even to plant reach through the vastness of time that makes Sedgwick himself an artist; the seeds of change. Art hangs on our with their irrepressible love. Larsson’s he took a chilling Swedish painting walls and sits on our desks to inspire creation, described by Sedgwick on about sacrifice and infused it with a us each day. Writing is an art in itself page 152 as coming “from somewhere story of undying love and a connection and utilizes its visual counterparts to else, from another time, from another too powerful to be severed by death. enrich the depth of the written word. world, from another dimension even,” Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun is In literature, art can unite characters provided the brutal ritual which begins a vibrant, emotional piece about a pair and repair wounds that no medical and ends the lovers’ tale. Midvinterblot of artists and their struggles through treatment could ever restore. Whether also provides the basis for haunting the realities of life. The protagonists, as the lifeblood of characters or a details such as the recurring hares and Noah and Jude Sweetwine, both spark of inspiration, art proved to be the slender blade of the executioner. show talent as artists. Noah lives and 2 A Festival of Writing 2017 breathes artwork; he sees events in comes crashing headlong into them, Midwinterblood and I’ll Give You his life as drawings and releases every forcing both characters to face the the Sun would not have been possible emotion through his works. For Jude, truth about their loved ones and each without the artistic influences obviously art is therapy, healing her soul after the other. Without art, Noah would not be at work in the authors’ minds. Sedgwick cracks in the Sweetwine family finally the bubbly boy readers have come to and Nelson rely on art to advance crumble altogether. From page one, art love and Jude would be just another their plots, develop their characters, drives the plot as it causes happiness girl surfing the waves, not the spunky, and breathe life into their pieces. and heartache for the dynamic duo. sculpting seamstress with an affinity for The unparalleled power of art led They vie for their artistic mother’s superstition. More importantly, Nelson to magnificent creations, showing approval and a spot in their dream depended on art to show Noah, Jude, how important art is to these writers’ prestigious art school. Although the and all of her readers that being true ideas. Each novel reveals the impact twins’ lives are hopelessly tangled, to yourself and never giving up on love of art in different ways, but they both they pull away from each other during are surefire ways to mend a broken highlight the boundless beauty that the most
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