New Jersey Association of Lifelong Learning
Learner Writing Contest 2019
At New Jersey Association for Life Long Learning’s Annual Conference in May, LVA student Martha Diaz was awarded second place for fiction for her story, A Man and His Violin in the 2019 Adult Learner Writing Contest. Martha was also part of a workshop during the conference:“Presentations and Discussion with Learning Writing Contest Winners,” where she read her story and talked about her writing process with other winners. She volunteers in the LVA office and is also part of our English-Spanish Language Exchange too
LVA student Sara Chekouh won second place for Poetry for her entry My Kitchen, My Home in NJALL’s 2019 Adult Learner Writing Contest. Sara is a friendly, hard working student and we so proud of her and all the students who participated. Please encourage your students to write, you never know where it might lead them. A magazine featuring submissions to the contest and will be available for download as a free PDF at www.NJALL.org.
LVA student Sara Chekouh won second place for Poetry for her entry My Kitchen, My Home in NJALL’s 2019 Adult Learner Writing Contest. Sara is a friendly, hard working student and we so proud of her and all the students who participated. Please encourage your students to write, you never know where it might lead them. A magazine featuring submissions to the contest and will be available for download as a free PDF at www.NJALL.org.
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Winners of NJALL’s Learner Writing Contest 2018 were announced at the organization’s annual ceremony on May 10, 2019. The contest comes with cash prizes and the opportunity to be published in the NJALL annual literary magazine, “Insight.” The following LVA, Essex & Passaic Counties students were recognized in the contest for these works:
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Bi Lin Wei
Lily writes beautifully about watching the natural world and being one with the earth in her poem The World and Me. Keeping a watchful eye on the arrival of flowers at the time of the Chinese lunar calendar, and then the seasons as they change, Lily’s poem won an Online Mention. Lily’s love and concern about the natural world flow through her poetry.
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Sara-Chekouh
The scents and flavors of her cooking come alive, bringing joy to her family and new neighbors in Sara’s poem My Kitchen, My Home. Her cooking evokes memories of her mother’s home in Morocco and her neighbors, you can almost taste the couscous when she writes about her kitchen being her home. Sara won Second Place for her poem.
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Clifford Henry
Clifford, who is now in the military reserves, served in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay and wrote a tender story, A Young Boy’s Dream. The night before a field trip to the zoo, a little boy has a bad dream about an elephant in the kitchen and was frightened The field trip is filled with adventures, from visiting the elephants, to a lost coin and more. Clifford’s story won an Honorable Mention.
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Martha Diaz
A trained CPA in Colombia, Martha also loves music, which are evident in her story, A Man and His Violin. It tells the story of family, freedom and pain shared through the beauty of music. The hours and hours of practice as a child, helped the man share his joy and frustrations throughout life in his country. Martha won Third Place for her story.
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Edilma Cardenas
Edilma’s memoir My Dream in the USA, tells her story of being known as Professor of business at a university in Columbia to the lows of working in a warehouse in New Jersey. Edilma never lost her enthusiasm, humor or energy despite the challenges she faced at the warehouse job. She writes of her experiences and living her dream. “Do you have a dream? Do you have a goal? If you want, you can do it,” she wrote. She won an Online Mention.
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Insight 2019 |
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