Barrow County Grade Level Winners Selected for Young Georgia Authors’ Writing Competition

Barrow County Schools have recognized 13 students — one in each grade level — as winners in the Young Georgia Authors’ Writing Competition. 

The contest is sponsored by the Georgia Department of Education to encourage students to develop writing that represents their best efforts, to provide a context for schools to support and celebrate the writing successes for all students and to encourage and recognize student achievement in writing throughout Georgia. 

School system level winners are: 

• Kindergarten — Tybee Graden, "A Princess and Blueberries",
• First grade — Kassidi Bagley, "A Fish Tale",
• Second grade — Zane Peeler, "The Big Fish Story",
• Third grade — Abigail Bugg, "John has the Gift",  
• Fourth grade — Natalie Rodriguez, "As the Rain Poured",  
• Fifth grade — Helen Bryant, "Addie in the Attic", 
• Sixth grade — Maggie Sears, "13 Strikes at Midnight",  
• Seventh grade — Emily Bailey, "Conformity",  
• Eighth grade — Haley Williams, "History Repeats Itself",  
• Ninth grade — Sam Meadows, "The Doughnut Shop",  
• 10th grade — Jessica Shreve, "Lack of Inspiration",  
• 11th grade — Sarah Gunter, "Untitled",  
• 12th grade — Jessie Walls, "No Shoes, No Shirt ... No Problems?",

The winning selections from each grade level have been sent to the Georgia Department of Education to be entered in the Northeast Georgia RESA district and state-level writing competition. 

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