Bucks County Community College’s Short Fiction Competition Honors Novice Novelists

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Three young authors have distinguished themselves in the annual Bucks County Community College short fiction competition.
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Three local high-school authors earned recognition for their short fiction from Bucks County Community College. The annual literary competition is funded by the college, including its Department of Language and Literature, which also supplied Professor Joseph Shakely as judge.

The three winners are:

  1. Maria Kesisoglou, ninth-grader, New Hope-Solebury High School
  2. Bethany Conover, sophomore, Council Rock South High School
  3. Adam Dombrowski, sophomore, Pennsbury High School

Shakely found Kesisoglou’s entry, “Cat’s Cradle,” compelling from its opening line: “A phone rings in an empty house late at night.” He described it as a “well-crafted story of supernatural horror” and praised Kesisoglou for her “deft handling of characterization.”

Conover’s submission, “What could have happened,” is “a mix of fantasy and surrealism, told in the first person by a would-be novelist experiencing writer’s block,” Shakely assessed. His praise noted: “The genre-bending introduction of notes of mysticism and existentialism elevate this story well above the mere adventure tale.”

Shakely honored Dombrowski’s work, “No Chances,” by judging, “The author has a good sense of what information to introduce, when to introduce it, and how to accomplish all this in a way that seems natural and organic to the story.”

The three winners will receive their awards tomorrow, Apr. 30, at on-campus event.

More on the Bucks County Community College short-fiction winners is online.

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