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SCRATCH Summer Reading Edition
The SCRATCH Writing Challenge asked youth to create a work of fiction that takes place in the Columbia Basin for a chance to win cash and get published. The characters needed to reveal the complexities of human nature and needed to be believable within the universe of the story being told. The stories submitted revealed the voice, imagery writing, and style of a generation!
The SCRATCH Summer Reading Edition includes the top ten stories from the challenge. Congratulations to the finalists!
Aanika Ruutopold of Rossland for her story The Wishing Bridge
Chace Kabatoff of Winlaw for his story As the Lake Exhaled into Morning
Claire deBoer of Golden for her story Pebbles
Ismael Bernier of Kaslo for his story The Contest
Julia Mason of Rossland for her story It all Started with a Dual Flush Toilet
Kim Wiest of Nelson for her story The Trickster
Kristopher Ede of Invermere for his story the girl with the plastic pirate hat and the boy who loved her so.
Melinda Pedersen of Nelson for her story Catch