18th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Writing Awards
The 2017 Carnegie Mellon University Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards Winners
High School Prose
First Place: "Being a Minority in a School of the White and Privileged"
Djibril Branche, 16
Shady Side Academy
Second Place: "Gate No. 1"
Zihao Kong, 17
Winchester Thurston
Third Place: "Sono Con Voi?"
Adero Kauffmann-Okoko, 17
Winchester Thurston
Third Place: "The 'S' Word"
Kristen Deasy, 17
Oakland Catholic High School
Honorable Mention: Katherine Davenport, 17
Shady Side Academy
Honorable Mention: "Eskimo Box Days"
Cherisse Tompkins, 17
Winchester Thurston
Honorable Mention: "Just Because"
Emma Steckline
CAPA
High School Poetry
First Place: "We Are Americans"
Zainab Adisa, 17
CAPA
Second Place: "I Am Not Wrong: Wrong is Not My Name"
Elsa Eckenrode, 18
CAPA
Third Place: "Wide Tooth Comb"
Ciara Sing, 16
CAPA
Honorable Mention: "Compliment"
Ruthanne Pilarski, 16
CAPA
Honorable Mention: "Route 28"
Becca Stanton, 17
CAPA
Honorable Mention: "Black Lives with Corrupted Minds"
Katerria Weldon, 17
Taylor Allderdice High School
College Prose
First Place: "Being Mexican-American Post-Election"
Melanie Diaz, 21
Carnegie Mellon
Second Place: "Dear Sir"
Christian Manaog, 19
Carnegie Mellon
Third Place: "Am I A Terrorist?"
Shamanta Mostofa, 21
University of Pittsburgh
Honorable Mention: "The Truth from my Chair"
Uduak Obong-Eren
Carnegie Mellon- Silicon Valley
Honorable Mention: "Mixed Girl Problems"
Julianne Mercer, 18
University of Pittsburgh
College Poetry
First Place: "Microdermabrasion"
Katherine Huang, 21
Carnegie Mellon
Second Place: "Whitewash"
Indigo Baloch, 22
Chatham University
Third Place: "some assembly required"
Javier Spivey
Carnegie Mellon
Honorable Mention: "The 'Dirty' Mirror"
Kyle A. Burnett, 22
University of Pittsburgh
Honorable Mention: "Birthright"
Theresa Abalos, 18
Carnegie Mellon
Honorable Mention: "Engineering 101"
Pragna Mannam, 20
Carnegie Mellon
“Best of” High School Winners
“Five Dollars”
Joshua Cagan
Fox Chapel High School
“I Am”
Nathan Walter
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School
“White Board”
Charity Anthony
Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy
“Golden Tears”
Wells Watson
The Kiski School
“They Notice”
Christina Reed
Penn Hills High School
“Cultural Immersion in Morocco”
Jahonna Lipscomb
John A. Brashear High School
“Venison”
Hailey Bartlett
Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School
“A Man Who Had Given Us All Hope”
Kiersten Lee Ketter
Carrick High School
“Stereotypes' Effect“
Anh Nguyen
Woodland Hills High School
“Resilience”
Mae Knight
Westinghouse High School
“Middle Man”
Daniel Simmons
Obama Academy
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