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DSHS Student Wins Writing Contest
Dripping Springs High School junior Ali Voss was one of three winners selected in the 2017 Texas Teen Book Festival Fiction Writing Contest. Her winning submission was titled "Sixteenth Moon." Ali is a student in Travis Crain's Creative Writing class at DSHS. As a contest winner, she will receive $150 and be recognized at the Texas Teen Book Festival at St. Edward's University Oct. 7, 2017.
The contest, which was open to students 11-18 years old, required entrants to submit a 300-500 word synopsis of an original fiction work, as well as a 900-1,400 word excerpt from the story. The contest was sponsored by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books. Her piece also will receive a full editorial review by an editor at Delacorte Press.