Plainfield Public Library held a short story contest and published the 9 winners

The works of nine fourth, fifth and sixth grade students are now published in a special anthology that the community can read online for free.

All nine of these student authors are the winners in the Plainfield Public Library’s annual short story contest.

Author Pablo Cartaya judged this year’s contest and hosted a program online in February. All the students who submitted short stories were invited to the program, where the winners were also announced. All the stories are approximately 500 words in length.

District 202 students earned seven of the nine top prizes in the contest. The other two winners were for the contest were Karson Williams for thte story “Splat: An Epic War Between Taco Toppings and Hungry Humans” and Lily Keller for the story “How Time Flies.”

The winning District 202 students, and their stories, are:

Fourth grade

• First place: “Coronadogs” by Hope McSteen - Lincoln Elementary School

• Second place: “The Snow Day” by Sabrina Tolrud - Liberty Elementary School

Fifth grade

• First place: “The Little House of Bolingbrook” by Alexia Ju - Eichelberger Elementary School

• Second place: “Waking Up” by Skylyn Worden – Walker’s Grove Elementary School

Sixth grade

• First place: “Paralyzed” by Kyleigh Schrader – John F. Kennedy Middle School

• Second place: “It Comes with the Rain” by Charlotte McManaman - Ira Jones Middle School

• Third place: “The Music Within Her” by Lyla Luebbing - Drauden Point Middle School

Read the short stories at bit.ly/3abZOsm.