In November, Rachel Surgalski (senior) won first place for fiction writing in the countywide contest hosted by the Bookshop Santa Cruz (click here for "Lilac Boy"). Unfortunately, they did not inform her until last week. Garrett Moore (sophomore, click here for "Accidental President") won honorable mention (he was notified appropriately and is pictured if you follow this link). Bookshop Santa Cruz published a book with the winning entries. Rachel kindly gave me one of her copies; you may borrow it for a day or two if you wish.
Last Week: First Published Digital Book Written By an Entire Class
- Here is the book: Sailing the Seas of Disease
- Leeza Wayne, Isabel Ponce, and Gabriella Gerlach edited our first iBook for class (per. 6). This is a compilation where each student in class wrote a section of a modern retelling of The Canterbury Tales. Here's the set up:
- A cruise ship is quarantined due to sickness (like Chaucer, you need a setup for people telling tales to each other).
- Each unique character is introduced (first 13 pages), just as in Chaucer.
- Each character tells a tale related to the kind of character he or she is.
- The work is written in couplets.
- Please download the book and rate it cheerfully!
This week Ivan Vatikani ("Theatre") and McKenna Pahl ("Ocean Breeze Memories") each received honorable mention in California Coastal Commission's Poetry Contest (this is a statewide contest with over 2,500 entries).
Congratulate your friends and classmates! I expect we'll have more good news with the AG Poetry and Poetry Santa Cruz contest results coming during this quarter.
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