On Sunday, April 23, Murray County Central sixth grade students, Tanner Graphenteen and Derek Kluis were honored at the 13th Annual Creating Spaces Writing Contest. Graphenteen placed first in Nonfiction with his story The Tree and second place in poetry with his poem My Top Ten Animals. Kluis placed second in Nonfiction with his story A Place I Love to Go.
The Creating Spaces Writing Contest encourages the love of language and writing for all students and is a way to recognize the talented young writers in southwest and west central Minnesota. There were 194 student participants from 16 area school districts, who submitted 284 entries in poetry, fiction, and/or non-fiction categories. SMSU’s Creative Writing Program handled the judging. Medals were awarded to all students, along with an anthology of the winning entries, First place winners in all categories and grade levels were also awarded a $20 gift certificate to amazon.com. First place 11th or 12th grade winners received a $2,000 scholarship to SMSU, A small reception was held after the awards.
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