Kansas Authors Club District Five held its December Meeting Saturday the 12th at the Rockwell Branch Library. The December Meeting includes a read-around by members, and this year, as in last year, KAC Youth Contest Award Winners were invited to come to the meeting and read their winning entries. Seven young people attended and impressed us all with their writing and reading skills.
From left, Vasuma Chaparala, who read her 1st ("One Simple Wish") and 2nd ("Global Peace") place winners in the Grades 7-8 Non-Fiction Contest, Sarah Chocron, who read her Honorable Mention winning Grades 5-6 Fiction entry, "To Change the Past"; Amit Bhosale, who read his 2nd place entry in the Grades 5-6 Non-Fiction category, "Today's Robots"; Arya Bhosale, with his 3rd place entry in the Grades 3-4 contest, "Lessons from My Mistakes"; Sabarish Ravi, who received two Grades 3-4 Fiction Honorable Mentions for "Sae Ranger" and "Nothing To Do," and a 3rd place award for his poem "If I Were a Seed"; Oshada Koraleggedara, who took 1st place in Grades 1-2 Fiction with "Shark Adventure"; Nithish Aravinthan, who was recognized as KAC Youth Writer of the Year for 2015, took four awards in Grades 1-2: 2nd place in FIction with "The Haunted House," 1st and 2nd places in Poetry with "The Coconut Song" and "Boo! Scared You!" and 3rd place in Non-Fiction, "What Makes Us Better People."