The Bright School had 17 winners in the Young Southern Student Writers Contest, which is coordinated by the Southern Lit Alliance and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of English. Students submitted works of poetry and prose, and the awards ceremony was held last week at the Tivoli Theatre. Two students were honored in both poetry and prose. The area contest has been held since 1999, and this year, there were more than 4,600 submitted works. Awards were given to 500 students in grades kindergarten through 12th.

The winning submissions for grades K-5 are available here.

The winners are (teachers in parentheses):

Young Southern Writers Winners