The Wrong World Elyse Marchant
The Scholastic Writing Awards of 2004, Gold Key Region Award Winner, 2004 California State University Fresno Young Writers' Conference, Fresno Area Council of Teachers Award
 If I had to choose one word, one word to tell the story of my life and every one of my dreams and ambitions, that word would be opera. Opera is my life force; it is the blood that runs through my veins and feeds my hungry heart. It propels me into worlds of adventure, murder, infidelity, romance, intrigue. When I listen to opera, the world is no longer filled with hardship and grief, but overflowing with undying beauty. And when I sing, heaven beams light and love upon me, and my heart is set free. read more>
Playing Monoply with Dad Alicia Moreno
2004 California State University, Fresno Young Writers' Conference, William Saroyan Award
 "You landed on Kentucky Avenue; you owe me one thousand-fifty dollars," I say to my father as I stick my hand out to retrieve my winnings. Our whole family is sitting in the dining room eating vanilla ice cream cones in fifty-degree weather. The lazy hum of the heater turning on and the dim sound of Monster Garage coming from the living room fills as background noise. read more>
Lessons of the Quarter-Mile Forest Jocylin Pierro
2005 California State University, Fresno Young Writers' Conference Honorable Mention
 The Quarter-Mile Forest is where I stand, thinking back to the past, gazing back seeing in the forest a younger me, one enchanted by the loneliness that can be found in nature. This is no forest in truth, but simply a grove of eucalyptus trees planted by the Boy Scouts in the 1960s in an effort to help save the earth. It is simply a twenty-acre clump of unused government land at the base of a hill that lies a quarter of a mile from my home. read more>
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