Year 8 Contest Winners Announced: October 2, 2008

Visual Art:

Senior Grand Prize ($500)

Elisabeth Hill “We are the Hollow Men”  (Oak Bay)

Junior Grand Prize ($500)

Laura Thorne “Touch” (Argyle)

Honourable Mentions ($100)

Yena Ahn “Masquerade” (Sentinel)

Mary Bigelow-Rubin “Claw”  (Parkland)

Brianne Tweddle “Climbing the Walls” (Rutland)

Samuel Whitter “Tubed” (Oak Bay)

Poetry:

Senior Grand Prize ($500)

Jessica Knowles “citybreath”  (Mulgrave)

Junior Grand Prize ($500)

Jennifer Cassie “West Coast Style”  (York House)

Honourable Mentions ($100)

Oliver Brooks “Battle After Tea”  (St. Michael’s)

Amanda Campbell “Growing Up”  (Claremont)

Devon DeLarge “Hey Zues”  (Claremont)

Elizabeth Hoekstra “The Postcard”  (Stelly’s)

Robyn Hughes “Personals, Ad #42” etc. (Claremont)

Terry Kho “Still Life” (St. Michael’s)

Rebecca Nicholls “4/20 At the Library” (Templeton)

Olivia Skagos “Sundays Still Come”  (Lillooet)

Caitlin Stockwell “Hilfiger High”  (Claremont)

Laura Thorne “If Only They Could See” (Argyle)

Jocelyne Ward “Osaka” (Claremont)

Min-Shan Xu “What Age Would I Be When I’m in Heaven?” (Vancouver Tech)

Morgan Yee “My Home is…”  (Hazelton)

Fiction:

Senior Grand Prize ($500)

Rachel Ottenbreit “Orientation” (Claremont)

Junior Grand Prize ($500)

Rebecca Nicholls “In which a girl does many things…” (Templeton)

Honourable Mentions ($100)

Melissa Aalhus “The Posting”  (Bert Bowes)

Lauren Carr “Born Under a Different Sun”  (York House)

Tina Chao “Ascending and Descending”  (Lord Byng)

Yam Cooper “Autopsy”  (Langley Fine Arts)

Christopher Edy “Of Death and Lemondrops” (David Thompson)

Nicholas Healey “Surviving the Fall”  (Duchess Park)

Terry Kho “Carvings” (St. Michael’s)

Justin Mar “Please Hurry”  (York House)

Matthea Wiebe “An Absence of Angels”  (Hazelton)

Emma Thorne “The House on Maple Street”  (Dorothy Lynas)

Elise Toporowski “Fat” (St. Michael’s)

Joel Wheeler “Black and White” (L.V. Rogers)

Emily Yoon “Sarcastically”  (St. Michael’s)

Essay:

Senior Grand Prize ($500)

Laura Pederson “Firsts” (S. Surrey/White Rock Learning Centre)

Junior Grand Prize ($500)

Katherine Taneille Johnson “Changing of the Winds” (Bert Bowes)

Honourable Mentions ($100)

Allen He “The Ground’s the Limit”  (Vancouver College)

Nicole Brewer “Hand-Me-Downs” (L.V. Rogers)

Camille Jasinki “A Modest Proposal” (Burnaby South)

Lindsay Mackas-Burns “Lest We Remember” (Claremont)

Caroline Cheng “Myopic Clarity is not an Oxymoron”  (Vancouver Tech)

Jenna Yoo “Outgrow”  (Point Grey)

Alex Rempel “The Perfect Piano”  (Langley Fine Arts)