RITA WILLIAMS YOUNG ADULT PROSE PRIZE CATEGORY

 

1st Prize: $100.... 2nd Prize: $50.... Third Prize:.... $25

Category Details

Grades 9-12 or equivalent age (which must be indicated on 3x5 card as well as mss). Up to 3,000 words in story, essay, journal entry, creative nonfiction or memoir.

About Judge/Sponsor

RITA WILLIAMS (KRON-TV, Oakland, CA) is an Emmy- award winning investigative reporter with KTVU-TV in Oakland, California. She's a graduate of Texas Tech University (B.A. in journalism and political science) and George Washington University (M.A. in political science). In 1985-86, she was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University (one of 12 mid-career journalists selected for the honor) and has taught broadcast news writing at Stanford. Recently, Rita was named an outstand journalism alum at Texas Tech and was awarded a Peabody as a lead reporter on a BART shooting story. She's married and the proud mother of her son currently attending law school.

 

Links:

Rita at KTVU Channel 2

 

LAST YEAR'S WINNERS (2016)

First Prize:  Alexandra Upton of Milton, MA for "Wallets"
Second Prize:   Tanvi Dutta Gupta of Singapore for "Running Song"
Third Prize:  Sage Marxer-Wanzor of San Leandro, CA for "Sand of the Ancestors"

Honorable Mentions: Karen Y. Lee of San Leandro, CA for "Murky Waters"; Sage Marxer-Wanzor of San Leandro, CA for "Fear's Game"; Alexandra Upton of Milton, MA for "Stars"

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