Adult Finalists – National Writers Series

3rd Place – New Tricks for Old Dogs

by Robert Brintnall, 06/13/2020, Buckley, MI

Adult Category

New Tricks for Old Dogs

At a staff meeting earlier this year the principal demonstrated a teaching tool where kids held up a special card to represent their answer to a question. Then the teacher could scan the whole room with an app on their phone and instantly project the results on a screen . . .

The Pandemic, or How People Are Like Butterflies

by Kathleen Stocking, 06/05/2020, Traverse City, MI. Adult Category

Points of Contention

by Derek Meyer, 05/10/2020, Traverse City, MI. Adult Category

My Hair is Flat

by Lorna Corso, 05/09/2020, Kewadin, MI. Adult Category

2nd Place – Hi-lo, hi..low times

by Ashley Bursian, May 9th, 2020, traverse city, Mi

Adult Category

Luckily for me, I have some experience with the hardships of quarantine.

There was once a point in my life, while homeless, that myself and two sons lived year round in a 1964 hi-lo camper, for 2 years. This is a camper about the size of an average household bathroom, or small, studio apartment size kitchen, perhaps, to warrant perspective . . .