Contest Winners

Winners from 2023

Delaney McIsaac

They Both Die at the End

Melyssa Goncalves

They Both Die at the End

Luc Sirois

Ready Player One

Elizabeth Veitch

They Both Die at the End

Ella Levine

The Midnight Library

1st Prize Winners:

Clare Mosesian

Michael Brown

Minna Felago

Nora Wein

Emma Thibedeau

Mackenzie Kingston

Zach Marconi

Lina Senuta

Honorable Mention:

Kevin Kingston

Emily Higginson

Catherine Higginson

Chase Kafka

Charlotte Ording

Juliette Vannoz

Grace Viverios

Grace Cullinan

Isla Murphy

Ella Levine

Keira Carpenter

William Weiss

Klara Geder

Luc Sirois

Ruairi O’Malley

Meredith Brown

Delaney McIsaac

Elizabeth Veitch

Jack Carney

Melyssa Goncalves

Tucker Hollis

JC Beaver

Zady Peterman

Anna Wang

Clementine Notis

Jonah Houston

Maria Torres

Melissa Feeley

Mae Pike

Ellie Perciello

Immortally With You

by Lina Senuta

A cell that bore my fate in time

A cell still thought askew

I left my body in that room

With days left only few

A cell that carried poverty

A cell that carried me

But it could not carry my family

And it dropped the only key

A cell that turned me plain as sand

A cell that burdened you

My sweet, good daughter Deborah

My picture’s left with you

A cell that still kept my name closed

A cell I’m bound to lose

I’d keep such causes away at most

And stray our penniless blues

A cell that saved a life or two

A cell that saves a hundred

A sickness that’s been brought to you

Can’t fight what all my cells did

A cell that now lives multiplied

A cell that was ignored

Seventy-something years ago

That cell made earth restored

A cell that once was pushed away

A cell that made me leave you

Will forgive the lives repaid

And the mystery solved for you

A cell that bore my fate in time

A cell still thought askew

Brought medics to the highest climb

And eternally is true

A cell was spelled H-E-L-A

That's Henrietta, dear Your

mother in every array I'm

immortally still here

Jack Carney P7 Madanjian.pptx

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a captivating science fiction novel which makes us speculate about the fate of the universe and society. In the dystopian future, 2044 can only be described as a depressing reality, victim to an energy crisis, global warming, and pollution. The band aid solution to this problem is through the Oasis, a virtual reality simulator. This virtual world is a massive online playground which allows any person to do virtually anything, from visiting magical worlds to slaying monsters. In a world full of dejection and desolation, the Oasis serves as an escape from reality, a reality where the world is falling in on itself. Furthermore, I consider a bridge as something that connects two ideas, or places. So, the bridge in Ready Player One is the Oasis; the bridge from utopia and dystopia; from virtual simulation to reality.

Klara Geder

They Both Die at the End

Rory O'Malley

Pride

Isla Murphy

A Night Divided

Michael Brown

A Night Divided

Wade Watts: a kid looking for hope in a world of desolation, poverty, and ruin. As he comes across the Oasis his life changes for the better. My visual representation of Ready Player One both shows not only the destructed city where Wade Watts lives, but also this dream of a world, the Oasis. The reason I showed both aspects in my drawing is to really highlight the differences between both worlds. As I like to describe it, this is Wade Watts’s “bridge”. Wade is trying to seek refuge in a better world, but he’s crossing a bridge through reality. In my drawing I illustrated the city inside the headset as extremely advanced. Meanwhile, the world and everything outside of it is destroyed. I put a pair of hands on the Oasis headset to make it seem like the person holding the set (Wade Watts) would rather look through that lens alone, seeing only world full of advanncements and technology instead of a world of destruction.

Zach Marconi

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