Edina Reads
Writing Contest 2022
Thank you to the 2022 entrants, organizers, and judges
The Edina Reads Writing Contest’s second year boasted 120+ entries, and four judges picked the winners. First and second-place entries received a prize.
Student Committee
Thank you to these Edina High School students who organized the 2022 contest: Dedeepya Guthikonda, Isabelle Wagener, Celia Vedder, Maya Katyal, Anna Clark, Olivia LaFrenz, Julia Mueller
Reflections from the Judges
MIM KAGOL
PAYAL DOSHI
LOUISA CASTNER
LAURA WESTLUND
2022 Winning Entries
K-2
Prose
1st Place: Amelia Neussle, “Reminder Next Day”
2nd Place: Mattie Trottier, “The Fairy Finders: The Purple Problem”
Honorable Mention: Anika Krishnan, “My Travels”
Honorable Mention: Maeve Harriet Finn, “Captured”
Poetry
1st Place: Aadvik Dubey, “Big Cheer Seasons are here”
2nd Place: Max Peterson, “Teds Tiny Little Bed”
2nd Place: Felicity Shiek, “Names”
Honorable Mention: Marlowe Ziegler, “The Bushes Up Front”
Honorable Mention: Elise Krypel, “The Girl”
Honorable Mention: Julian Windler, “A Sweet Puppy”
Honorable Mention: Konstantin Maedge, “The Cat Named Rat”
3-5
Prose
1st Place: Sophie Sagedahl, “Castle of Shadows”
2nd Place: Ruby Melander, “Western World”
Honorable Mention: Paloma Tedesco, “The Tiger Whisperer”
Honorable Mention: Claire Fryxell, “The Lost Ruby Stone”
Honorable Mention: Evelyn Rose Richmond, “Cam Cam”
Honorable Mention: Lillian Carroll, “Amanda Chen’s Pandemic Diary”
Honorable Mention: Gabby Mackey, “Adrift”
Honorable Mention: Genevieve Schmidt, “A Strange Day in July”
Honorable Mention: Aaron Prakasam, “Times That I Learned Something”
Honorable Mention: Kathryn Yocum, “Carving In”
Honorable Mention: Tatum Pronley, “Winter’s Lattes”
Poetry
1st Place: Mateo Pullen, “I am From”
2nd Place: Nina London, “Color Blind”
Honorable Mention: Avianna Fettig, “Silenced”
6-8
Prose
1st Place: Julia Peterson, “The Secrets of Darkness”
2nd Place: Aditi Jha, “When the Firewall Falls”
Honorable Mention: Julia Ma, “Dark Red Lacy”
Honorable Mention: Kinsley Chang, “Hiding Truth”
Honorable Mention: Desmond Rubenstein, “A Dark Victory”
Honorable Mention: Selena Al-Ramahi, “The Forever Trail”
Poetry
1st Place: Skyler Gilbertson, “The Thaw”
2nd Place: Ishani Shah, “The Half You Don’t See”
Honorable Mention: Zeina Al-Ramahi, “A Chance”
Honorable Mention: Hudson Lee, “Time”
Honorable Mention: Caroline Stier, “You’re An Other”
Honorable Mention: Madeleine Norman, “The Undying Process”
Honorable Mention: Nishka Pandey, “We Are All The Same”
Honorable Mention: Brady Blaes, “Irish Poem”
9-12
Prose
1st Place: Katerina Duda, “A Future Within Our Grasp”
2nd Place: Claire Cecchi, “Nighthawks 1942”
Honorable Mention: Claire Safranski, “The Memoir of an Anxious, 15-year old girl”
Honorable Mention: Mazie Solarz-Patel, “For Her Soulmate in Another Reality”
Poetry
1st Place: Ida Rosenstein, “Insatiable”
2nd Place: Mazie Solarz-Patel, “A letter to her; I only ever told you and the moon”
Honorable Mention: Sabrina Rubenstein, “Hustle”
Honorable Mention: Mazie Solarz-Patel, “Electric Hearts”
Adult
Prose
1st Place: Barbara Swanke, “Holes by the Window”
2nd Place: Areti Georgopoulous, “Hump Day”
Honorable Mention: Mary Yee, “Leonardo and God Chat about Portraits”
Poetry
1st Place: Areti Georgopoulus, “The Arc of Time”
2nd Place: Carol Flint-Kaliebe, “Carved from a Tree Uprooted”
Honorable Mention: Derik Fettig, “Last Leaf”
Honorable Mention: Derik Fettig, “Green”