Reliving the vision

As they do every year, the winners of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Writing Awards honored the vision and sacrifice of the slain civil rights leader by reading their work during the university's Martin Luther King Day Celebration. Below is a list of the winners:

High School Poetry

First Place:

Emily Nagin, "Giving Up the Ghost", Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA)

Dana Horton, "Black and White Playground," CAPA

Second Place:

Avi Diamond, "Listen and Blink", CAPA

Third Place:

Justin Platek, "Racism at School", CAPA   

Honorable Mention

Jonah Rosenthal, "A Lesson To Be Learned", Allderdice High School

Makala Williams, "Gunshots", Peabody High School

Donzell Delaney, "The Word", Perry Traditional Academy

Duncan Richer, "Chain Link Fence", CAPA

High School Prose

First Place:

David Peitzman, "Wrong Place, Wrong Time", Winchester Thurston Academy

Second Place:

Isidora Concha-Loyola, "That Not-So-White Girl", CAPA

Third Place:   

A.J. Smith, "A Moment of Prejudice", Winchester-Thurston

Honorable Mention:

Delvin Turner, "The Color of Courage", Central Catholic High School

Keanna Cash, "Color Blind Hate", Perry

LaTica Boykins-Williams, "Racial Injustice", Schenley High School

Tony Nguyen, "Dear Martin Luther King", Schenley

Jessica Packer, "Variants," CAPA 

Carnegie Mellon Poetry

First Place:

Zachary Harris, "Joy and Pain"

Second Place:

Sally Mao, "Yoko"

Third Place:     

Alayna Frankenberry, "I never wore an ethnic dress"

Erin Danehy "Tante Anna"

Carnegie Mellon Prose

First Place:

Michael Szczerban, "Distinguishing the Undistinguishable" 

Second Place: 

Ashley Birt, "Sorry" 

Jonathan Potts