2018 Winners
You can read all our winning stories here.
Grand Prize Winner
The Visitors by Ann Marie Anglin
1st Place By Category
Written Word: Shakshouka by Lior Torenberg
Video: Voices Rising Community Chorus by Ruth Lewis
Image: My Nana and Me by Amara Davidson
Honorable Mention
Yarn Tales by Barbara Rhoads
Granddaddy’s Time by Anne McManus
Bedtime Stories by Augusta Omofuma
My Hero by Colin Thornton
2017 Winners
Grand Prize
The Bathtub Cafe by Marie Ballard
Second Place (3-way tie)
Eyes that See by Jerri Hardesty
The Red Bridge by Carolina Williams
The Flight of the Butterfly (collage plus accompanying text) by Darcy Howell
Congratulations to Marie, Jerri, Carolina, and Darcy! And thank you to everyone who submitted intergenerational stories to the Kraemer Intergenerational Story Contest.
2016 Winners
First Place
“Intergenerational Family Recipes Should Never Be Lost” by Maria Ramos-Chertok, Mill Valley, CA, USA
Second Place
“A Stranger’s Bucket List” by Do Hyun Kang, Auckland, New Zealand
Third Place (five-way tie with students from Joan MacQueen Middle School, Alpine, CA, USA)
{Click here to read the third-place-winning stories.}
“She rode through the forest in the crisp winter wind…” by Aylsa Kermath
“Grandma’s Girl” by Molly Kermath
“Intergenerational Story” by MacKenzie Mullick
“My Grandma’s Story”by Ma’Shaya Pryor
“The Forgotten” by Dylan Rose
**These students’ intergenerational tales grew from a school assignment into Prize Winning entries in the 2016 “Your Story Contest” sponsored by Intergeneration Month. We thank their teachers and counselors and parents for their encouragement and we thank the students for their courage, for their amazing stories and for making a real difference.
Certificate of Distinction Winners
{Click here to read the entries by the Certificate of Distinction Winners below}
“Caught by a Stranger” by Kimberly Gotches, Los Alamos, NM, USA
“Act 500, Scene 657 Maybe…” by Zunnash Khan, Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
“Finding My Voice — A Grandson’s Cherished Memory” by Aaron Larsen, Roseburg, OR, USA
“Grandma Minnie’s Legacy…A Grandson Remembers” by Jack Levine, Tallahassee, FL, USA
“My Father Showed Me This” by Luke Miller, Gulfport, MS, USA
“The Gift” by J.P. Odgers, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
“What Intergenerational Means to Me” by Andrea Fonte Weaver, Sudbury, MA, USA
