2024 Thornton Wilder Writing Competition Winners

Congratulations to the 2024 Thornton Wilder Writing Competition Winners!

Poetry

1st Place : carpe diem
Kendra Graf, Westover School, grade 11

2nd Place: Hair Can Make a Girl Cry
Sophia Andrews, ECA/Foran HS, grade 9

Honorable Mention: Warm Outline of Two Bodies on Otherwise Wet Concrete
Hannah Leamon, ECA/North Haven, grade 11

Fiction

1st Place: How Arnold Fischman Found Out His Mom Is Gay, Henrietta Hannah Geertz, ECA/Cross, grade 10

2nd Place: Dhadakan, Asher Joseph, Hopkins School, grade 11

Honorable Mention: The Lower Left of Nowhere, Evan Heath, Hamden Hall School, grade 12