Press release from Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site:
In keeping with the celebration of Thomas Wolfe’s birthday month of October, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial announced today the winners of the 2021 “Telling Our Tales” Student Writing Competition. Thomas Wolfe, while best known for his novels, also wrote many short stories.
In this competition, students submitted their own work of fiction inspired by Thomas Wolfe’s story “One of the Girls in Our Party.” The story was published in Scribner’s magazine in January of 1935. In the story Wolfe writes about a tour group consisting of thirty women, all of them teachers from the public schools of the American mid-west traveling through Europe. Student stories were selected from three age groups, grades 4-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Congratulations:
Grades 4-5
1st place Stephen Knowlton Lee, Atkinson Elementary School
2nd place Jesse Clark, Riverbend Elementary School
3rd place Millie Bauernfeind, Koontz Intermediate SchoolGrades 6-8
1st place Annalise Youmans, Rugby Middle School
2nd place Alexander Atwell, Rugby Middle School
3rd place Amelia Lopez, Omega Middle SchoolGrades 9-12
1st place Eireann Lance Marcus, Tuscola High SchoolFor more information about the event contact Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market Street, Asheville, NC 28801, call 828-253-8304.
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