The theme this year was time travel.
Some students wrote about meeting dinosaurs or famous people. Some wrote about where they'd like a to travel. Others wrote about building a time machine or why they would travel back in time --; or to the future.
About 45 K-12 students from the Jefferson County school district were recognized for stellar writing in a work of short fiction or poetry.
"We, as a society, need to do everything we can to cultivate literacy and literature in young people," said the event's keynote speaker, Len Vlahos, award-winning author and co-owner of the Tattered Cover bookstore.
The first year of the contest attracted about 250 submissions. This year, 1,505 submissions were received.
Schools were also recognized. In first place for schools with the most finalists was Bell Middle School in Golden, followed by Conifer High School and Kyffin Elementary School in Golden. Based on a school's student enrollment, in first place for the most entries was Woodrow Wilson Academy in Westminster, Bell Middle School and Kyffin Elementary.
Comparing an experience to the writing challenge, Vlahos talked about all the filters an author must go through --; agents, editors, publishers, book sellers --; and how one of his award-winning books got rejected 18 times before it was finally chosen for publishing.
"Writing is an exercise of perseverance," he said. "Reading all of these submissions makes me incredibly proud of our school district."
from Lakewood Sentinel - Latest Stories http://lakewoodsentinel.comhttp://goldentranscript.net/stories/Time-traveling-through-words,213257?branding=15
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