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2012 prompt: Choose a story or essay from another century. “Make It New” (Ezra Pound) by using a contemporary setting. It can be a poem, novel, play, or essay. Re-imagine it. Recreate it (make it yours). Imagine Jem, Boo and Scout; or Julia and Winston; or Katherine and Petruchio; or Swift’s Modest Proposal; or Frankenstein; or Telemachus and Odysseus/Ulysses in our day and age.
You can add new characters, images, settings, change the narrator, change the ending, and incorporate lines from the original story. (Please bold any lines from the original text which you incorporate into your work.)
Congratulations to our 2012 INCITE Winners announced Saturday, April 21, 2012 @ Bishop Strachan School. Our 2012 Judge was Richard Scrimger. The prompt was courtesy of author Betsy Warland.
Grades 11/12
1st: Torment by Cassie Cramer (Bishop Strachan School)
2nd: Storm Clouds Over Europe by Isabel Joy (Holy Trinity School)
3rd: On J Alfred Prufrock's Grave,Michael T. Lemanski (Royal St. George's College)
Grades 9/10
1st: Confession by Kathleen Chen (TFS)
2nd: The Ballad of James Gatz by Reilly Howe (St Michael's College)
3rd: The Breaking of Holden Caulfield by Scotty Sussman (Greenwood College)
Grades 7/8
1st: The Music Professor by Mary Tooley (Montcrest School)
2nd: If I Were Brian by Patrick Turner (St Andrew's College)
3rd: Big Red by Zachary Walters (Greenwood College)
Cover artwork entitled Ingredients of Memories by Tiffany Wong, Grade 12 from Bishop Strachan School.
2012 prompt: Choose a story or essay from another century. “Make It New” (Ezra Pound) by using a contemporary setting. It can be a poem, novel, play, or essay. Re-imagine it. Recreate it (make it yours). Imagine Jem, Boo and Scout; or Julia and Winston; or Katherine and Petruchio; or Swift’s Modest Proposal; or Frankenstein; or Telemachus and Odysseus/Ulysses in our day and age.
You can add new characters, images, settings, change the narrator, change the ending, and incorporate lines from the original story. (Please bold any lines from the original text which you incorporate into your work.)
Congratulations to our 2012 INCITE Winners announced Saturday, April 21, 2012 @ Bishop Strachan School. Our 2012 Judge was Richard Scrimger. The prompt was courtesy of author Betsy Warland.
Grades 11/12
1st: Torment by Cassie Cramer (Bishop Strachan School)
2nd: Storm Clouds Over Europe by Isabel Joy (Holy Trinity School)
3rd: On J Alfred Prufrock's Grave,Michael T. Lemanski (Royal St. George's College)
Grades 9/10
1st: Confession by Kathleen Chen (TFS)
2nd: The Ballad of James Gatz by Reilly Howe (St Michael's College)
3rd: The Breaking of Holden Caulfield by Scotty Sussman (Greenwood College)
Grades 7/8
1st: The Music Professor by Mary Tooley (Montcrest School)
2nd: If I Were Brian by Patrick Turner (St Andrew's College)
3rd: Big Red by Zachary Walters (Greenwood College)
Cover artwork entitled Ingredients of Memories by Tiffany Wong, Grade 12 from Bishop Strachan School.