Youngstown State University will be hosting its 45th English Festival this year in April. Students from Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana counties in Ohio, and Mercer and Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania who enjoy reading and writing participate in the festival. Authors Chris Crutcher and Rita Williams-Garcia will be attending the festival to sign books and speak to students in attendance. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Deadline are a couple books Crutcher has written that will be part of the festival. Williams-Garcia has written books entitled Jumped, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, and One Crazy Summer.
Last year Aaliyah Blinsky along with Jenna Helco from McDonald, Pamela O’Brien from Niles, Olivia Rossi from Mineral Ridge, and Fa’rah Little from Chaney, won first place for the limerick contest. The story that inspired the limerick was The Downstairs Girl. Two eighth grade girls won second place for limericks last year. Giana Morales, along with Lilly Gee from James W. Parker MS, Caitlin Blankenship for Springfield, and Allison Clara from Pymatuning Valley, wrote about Poe: Stories and Poems-The Raven. Brylee Durfy also got second place, writing with Heath Nickell from Holy Family School, Allen Billman from Pymantuning Valley MS, and Tyler Harley from Girard JHS. Their limerick was also about The Downstairs Girl.
The Festival is stretched out over three days, starting on April 19th, and ending on April 21st. Students in 10th-12th grades from Lowellville attend the festival on Wednesday, while 7th-9th grade students attend on Friday. This year thirty students from Lowellville in grades 7-12 are reading in preparation for attending the festival in April. Below are the limericks which the students who participated last year wrote.
Aaliyah Blinsky for The Downstairs Girl
A chinese girl named Jo Kuan
Lived deep under the lawn
She wrote articles for The Focus
All of Atlanta went bogus
She writes all the time from dusk to dawn.
Gia Morales for Poe Stories and Poems
A lover missing evermore
A part of him named Lenore
He will try and try
To reach where she lies
But he will see her never more
Brylee Durfy for The Downstairs Girl
There once was a lady named Jo
Her parents she didn’t know
She set out to find
Those who left her behind
The results were certainly a show
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