Congratulations to our 2024 Young Georgia Authors District Winners!

The Young Georgia Authors Writing Competition (YGA), sponsored by the Georgia Council of Teachers of English, is open to students in grades kindergarten through 12^th. Student submissions can be short stories, poetry, essays, journals, personal narratives, reports, or other original student writing, and they are judged on the four domains in the Georgia Performance Standards: Ideas, organization, cohesiveness, and language.

Each of these students won their HCSD grade-level district competition and will now compete with grade-level winners from the 15 school systems in the Pioneer RESA Region: Banks, Dawson, Fannin, Franklin, Gainesville City, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Lumpkin, Mountain Education Charter High School, Rabun Stephens, Towns, Union, and White County. Pioneer RESA will announce region winners in March.

Hall County Schools Young Georgia Authors District Finalists: 2023-2024

Grade	School	Student Name	Title of Work
K	Mt. Vernon Exploratory School	Calliope Wolf	My Trip to Disney
1	Riverbend Elementary School	Colton Hulsey	Germs
2	Lyman Hall Elementary School	Isabella Hernandez-Fajardo	I’m a Tree
3	Tadmore Elementary School	Bella Sayne	My Story of Cancer
4	Flowery Branch Elementary School	Maliyah Harper	The Forest of Ebony
5	Mt. Vernon Exploratory School	Laney Hulsey	Dancing Leaves
6	World Language Middle School	Aliyah Pierce	I Believe in Candles
7	North Hall Middle School	Annalise Williams	Hunterman’s Pond
8	Cherokee Bluff Middle School	Ruby Shaughnessy	Love Is
9	Cherokee Bluff High School	Ansley Buday	Paralyzed to Professional
10	Cherokee Bluff High School	Josephine Marie Lundy	The Edge
11	West Hall High School	Gabriel Dimaggio	Adrift in The Winds of a Daffodil
12	Chestatee High School	Abby Allgood	The Diary of Fritz Ackermann