Winners of The 2023 Minerva Campbell Literary Contest
The Minerva Campbell Literary Contest Awards are presented to students exhibiting literary ability. This annual prose and poetry competition is conducted for Junior High School and Senior High School students attending Rush-Henrietta Central Schools and students who reside in Henrietta and attend school elsewhere. The Henrietta Public Library Board of Trustees, which sponsors the contest in honor of its first president, appoints a committee of judges to select the winners within each division.
Senior Division
Rush-Henrietta Senior High School
Prose
First Place………………. S-1 “Stranger” by Bridelle Toumani Ganzeu
Honorable Mention……S-5 “Pipe Dream” by Kathryn Arbegast
Poetry
First Place…………………. S-4 “Obligated” by Grace VanNess
Second Place ……………. L-2 “Crimson” by Kasper Lippa (10th)-Monroe #1 BOCES
Junior Division
Roth Junior High School
Prose
First Place…………………. R-2 “Trapped” by Mia Rockell
Second Place…………….. R-9 “Give it Everything You Got” by Andrew Smith
Third Place………………… R-10 “Happy Me” by Raina St. John
Honorable Mention….. R-7 “Pretty Pink Perfect” by Redeat Shumaker
Honorable Mention…… R-11 “Split” by Rakshya Baral
Poetry
First Place…………………. R-12 “Betrayal of One’s Own” by Eshaal Humayun
Second Place…………….. R-8 “Gifted” by Keira Wright
Third Place………………… R-1 “A World with Two Futures” by Lorelei Miller
Some of the winners from Roth Junior High School: Eshaal Humayun; Andrew Smith; Rakshya Baral; Lorelei Miller.