{"id":52474,"date":"2026-06-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=52474"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:51:01","slug":"awards-ceremony-for-short-story-contest-winners-is-june-29-at-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=52474","title":{"rendered":"Awards ceremony for Short Story Contest winners is June 29 at library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winners of the Friends of Taylor County Public Library 20th annual Short Story Contest will be recognized at an awards presentation planned Monday, June 29, at 5:15 p.m., at the library (located at 403 North Washington Street).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prizes will be presented in three categories: youth, student and adult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winners are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <em><strong>Youth<\/strong><\/em>: first place, \u201cOne-Hand Wally\u201d by Maddie McCormick; second place, \u201cThe Forgetful Squirrel\u201d by Jentry Baker; and honorable mention, \u201cThe Story of the Three Dwarves\u201d by Wyatt Baker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <em><strong>Student<\/strong><\/em>: first place, \u201cFuture Flashes\u201d by Maddox Wiles; second place, \u201cJerry\u2019s Memories of Anzio\u201d by Jack Johnson; and honorable mention, \u201cFirst Period Problems\u201d by Alex Endel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 <em><strong>Adult<\/strong><\/em>: first place, \u201cThe Last Roll\u201d by John Hart; second place, \u201cAnything\u201d by Wade Holton; and honorable mention, \u201cThe Girl Who Wished for Wisdom\u201d by Rachel Copeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The awards presentation will also be livestreamed on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winners of the Friends of Taylor County Public Library 20th annual Short Story Contest will be recognized at an awards presentation planned Monday, June 29, at 5:15 p.m., at the library (located at 403 North Washington Street). Prizes will be presented in three categories: youth, student and adult. The winners are: \u2022 Youth: first place, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52475,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52474\/revisions\/52475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}