Louise Mooney Collins
Creative Writing Scholarship - Winners 2007

Thomson Gale is proud to sponsor the Louise Mooney Collins Creative Writing Scholarship, an annual award for 11th and 12th grade students in southeastern Michigan.

In 2007, we've honored original creative writing stories and selected one scholarship winner and five finalists based upon their imagination, creativity, writing excellence and command of language.

2007 Scholarship Winner

Molly Shannon
Groves High School
Beverly Hills, MI
"Resurrection"
Read this short story [ doc, 84 KB ] or [ pdf, 76 KB ]

2007 Finalists

Brigid Kilcoin
Mercy High School
Farmington Hills, MI
"First Amens"

Lauren Elizabeth Koski
Community High School
Ann Arbor, MI
"Stains"

Emma List
Community High School
Ann Arbor, MI
"Squirrel Day"

Jennifer Savasky
Armada High School
Armada, MI
"Anticipation"

Victoria Scheerer
Community High School
Ann Arbor, MI
"Herb and Swen"

A Poem by Louise Mooney Collins

Purity and Accuracy
written in anticipation of a summer reunion in the Vermont hills with old friends

Welcome to this countryside
where the simple pleasures
become grand

If there must be a theme
there surely will be many
I call up purity and accuracy

Consider:
how you become wed to the road
as you traverse it in the sun and rain

how so many things
move about you
just at the reaches of your vision

how earth masses
rise and fall before your eyes
how soft the grasses how alive the woods

how sad the cricket sound
at night how perfect
the bears crossing the road at dawn