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Winners
Writing prize winners at Pomfret School include, left to right: Paige Merrow ’11, Kelsey Hatch ’11, Dana Diaz ’14, Natasha Pena ’11. Courtesy photo.
POMFRET — Four Pomfret school students recently were awarded the Thorne Writing Prize.
Four separate prizes are presented according to form and genre. A distinguished guest judge selects the winners and presents during a special spring term awards ceremony. Additionally, each winner receives a prize along with publication in Manuscripts, Pomfret’s literary magazine.
This year’s contest was judged by fiction writer William Lychack. A native of Putnam and author of “The Wasp Eater,” his work has also appeared in many publications.
Winners were: Dana Diaz ’14, of Pomfret, daughter of Arthur and Eileen Diaz, took home top honors for both genres, poetry and prose, in the underclass awards; Paige Merrow ’11, of Woodstock, daughter of Terry and Erin Merrow, earned an honorable mention in the upper class poetry genre; Kelsey Hatch ’11, of Grafton, Mass., daughter of Andrew and Holly Hatch, was declared the winner in the upper class poetry genre; and Natasha Pena ’11, of Bronx, N.Y., daughter of Madeline and Adalberto Pena, won the upper class award in the prose genre.