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If you were to curate a story of your world, how would your chosen images tell a story that is important to you?

This was a prompt for the students writing for the ĢTV Achievement Awards in Writing.

 

2015 ĢTV Achievement Awards in Writing winner :

“The setting is a small Sunday school classroom in a small church in a small town. A white plastic-top table with crayon marks and marker stains is pushed against a wall. Old orange leather chairs are scattered around it. In the corner of the photo, a brown-haired girl is shyly looking through the doorway, her mother behind her.”

On May 6, the partnered with the Nebraska Writing Project in “A Celebration of Young Nebraska Writers” at the State Capitol in Lincoln.

Students recognized included 2015 winners of two ĢTV student awards programs:

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The Nebraska Writing Project sponsored poetry of place readings by Nebraska Poets and  and by 12 elementary, middle school, and high school students.

The poem, “Earth as Home,” in , winner of 2015 ĢTV Achievement Awards in Writing Certificate for Superior Writing began

The earth spoke to me
through the ancient pictures
in the pitch black sky.
Bright stars peeking through
the curtain overhead, hiding the
sleeping sun.

Nothing brings the   to life better than student writing like this!

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