Writer’s Eye 2019 | Award Winners Elementary School Grades 3–5 Poetry 1st Place Britton Waters, Black Day Baker-Butler Elementary School 2nd Place Jayden Allen, Winter V. L. Murray Elementary School 3rd Place Caroline Collins, Blooming Spring V. L. Murray Elementary School 1st HM* Tilda Rajagopalan, Year After Year Free Union Country School 2nd HM Willow Buck, Hate Rockfish River Elementary School Prose 1st Place Mergen Peterson, Blinded Free Union Country School 2nd Place Zaharra Colla, From David St. Anne’s-Belfield School 3rd Place Savannah Gaughen, Friendship Peabody School 1st HM Ava Buczynski, Island of Silence The Covenant School 2nd HM Ellie Womack, Perspective St. Anne’s-Belfield School Middle School Grades 6–8 Poetry 1st Place Kailey Woodcock, A New Thread Grymes Memorial School 2nd Place Keegan Robinson, Untitled Charlottesville Catholic School 3rd Place Hannah Shannon, A Beautiful Girl Henley Middle School 1st HM Ella Whitcomb, Stone Henley Middle School 2nd HM Ella Barber, The Hound in the Clouds Henley Middle School Prose 1st Place Annabelle Goff, Lipstick Covered Thoughts Sutherland Middle School 2nd Place Kara Finley, If You Love Someone St. Catherine’s School 3rd Place Highlynn Gardner, Hello to the Future Henley Middle School 1st HM Skylar Brown, The Spotted Cat Walton Middle School 2nd HM Ingrid Flaherty, Burley Middle School After a Thousand Years of Darkness, There Will Come a Light * Honorable Mention High School Grades 9–12 Poetry 1st Place Meridith Frazee, woodcut Tandem Friends School 2nd Place Anna Smith, Drip, Drop Monticello High School 3rd Place Alexa Barber, Whispering Evil Monticello High School 1st HM Emily Lewis, Sensations Form a Someone Waynesboro High School 2nd HM Jesus Chapa-Loya, Dreamscape Waynesboro High School 2nd HM Remy Lusk, June Miller School Prose 1st Place Megan Phillips, Isolation Waynesboro High School 2nd Place Kathryn Steenburgh, Living Language Western Albemarle High School 3rd Place Luca Huff, Numb Heart Monticello High School 1st HM Ezra Lee, In a Century Waynesboro High School 2nd HM Claire Zwadlo, Sanctuary Albemarle High School University/Adult Poetry 1st Place Erin Newton Wells, For My Hands, for My Village of Eyes 2nd Place Jenny Koster, Lineage 3rd Place Katrien Vance, Hidden Meaning 1st HM Isabelle Burke, Scenes from Flower-Viewing University of Virginia Prose 1st Place Zoë Hicks, Epilogue in Winter University of Virginia 2nd Place Gary Kessler, Mists of the Tsunami 3rd Place Ja’Mel Reed, Mt. Zion Baptist Church University of Virginia 1st HM Julie Yauger, Big Black River .