{"id":61310,"date":"2015-04-16T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61310"},"modified":"2015-04-14T18:08:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T22:08:29","slug":"2015-rebecca-eddy-memorial-writing-contest-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61310","title":{"rendered":"2015 Rebecca Eddy Memorial Writing Contest Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2105eddywinners\"<\/a>Pictured are some of the winning contestants.<\/em><\/p>\n

Below Canastota Librarian Liz Metzger, center, is shown with contest founders Doug and Joan Eddy.\"Eddys<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

(Canastota, NY \u2013 April 2015) The 15th Annual Rebecca Eddy Memorial Writing Contest was recently held at the Canastota Public Library. Contestants entering this year were from Canastota, Morrisville, Cazenovia, Oneida and Wampsville.<\/p>\n

Entrants were able to enter their short stories and poetry in one of four age categories.<\/p>\n

The contest was organized by Joan and Doug Eddy as a memorial to their daughter, Rebecca Eddy, a local Canastota woman who died at a young age in an automobile accident. Ms. Eddy was a graduate of Canastota High School as well as a graduate of John Hopkins University.\u00a0 She was an athlete, an artist, a thespian and a scholar.<\/p>\n

Eddy felt a passion towards writing and also towards her community.\u00a0 Joan and Doug Eddy were on hand to congratulate the winners and to encourage them to continue writing.<\/p>\n

The winners of this year\u2019s competition were named at a special awards ceremony at the library on Monday, April 13.<\/p>\n

The winners included the following:<\/p>\n

Poem 10 and Under<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maya Tucci, 1st Place<\/p>\n

Destiny Hart, 2nd Place<\/p>\n

Adam Wojsiat, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n

Faith Hart, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n

\u00a0Short Story 10 and Under<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kiefer Shortell, 1st Place<\/p>\n

\u00a0Poem 11-14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Katrina Campbell, 1st Place<\/p>\n

Julia Draves, 2nd Place<\/p>\n

Kathryn Wojsiat, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n

Short Story 11-14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kathryn Kielbasinski,\u00a0 1st \u00a0Place<\/p>\n

Jeremy Domena, 2nd Place<\/p>\n

Xavier Farwell, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n

\u00a0Poem 15-18<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nathan DeCock, 1st Place<\/p>\n

Peter Draves, 2nd Place<\/p>\n

Short Story 15-18<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeremy Howard, 1st Place<\/p>\n

Victoria Shanahan, 2nd Place<\/p>\n

\u00a0Poem 18 and Older<\/strong><\/p>\n

Martha Fischer, 1st Place<\/p>\n

Sandra Miley, 2nd Place<\/p>\n

Glenn Miley, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n

Jeanne Dunn, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n

Short Story 18 and Older<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dean Wittwer, 1st Place<\/p>\n

Joanne Berezin, 2nd Place<\/p>\n

Mabel Smith, Honorable Mention<\/p>\n

All contestants received a certificate for entering the competition.\u00a0 First and second place award winners also received a cash prize of $25 and $10 respectively. Every participant also received a bookmark of one of Rebecca\u2019s poems.<\/p>\n

After the awards presentation, writers were encouraged to read a portion of their work to the audience.<\/p>\n

The contest is coordinated each year by the Canastota Public Library at 102 W. Center Street in Canastota.<\/p>\n

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Pictured are some of the winning contestants. Below Canastota Librarian Liz Metzger, center, is shown with contest founders Doug and Joan Eddy. (Canastota, NY \u2013 April 2015) The 15th Annual Rebecca Eddy Memorial Writing Contest was recently held at the Canastota Public Library. Contestants entering this year were from Canastota, Morrisville, Cazenovia, Oneida and Wampsville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}