​Write On The River and NCW Libraries are happy to announce and congratulate the winners of the
15th annual High School Writing Competition.
 
Librarians from across the region and members of NCW Libraries’ Teen Library Council judged the competitive entries and chose three students to share the $200 cash award for their original short fiction writing.
 

This year’s entries came from student writers in grades 9th-12th from a wide range of communities within the NCW Libraries’ five-county service area including Cashmere, Curlew, Ephrata, Leavenworth, Moses Lake, Oroville, Peshastin, Quincy, Royal City, Tonasket, Waterville, Wenatchee.

 

New York Times best-selling author Chelsea Cain, after visiting Wenatchee as a 2011 Write on the River Conference keynote speaker, initiated and continues to sponsor the annual competition.