Congratulations to our 2025 Young Georgia Authors District Winners!

The Young Georgia Authors Writing Competition (YGA), sponsored by the Georgia Council of Teachers of English, is open to students in grades kindergarten through 12 ^th . Student submissions can be short stories, poetry, essays, journals, personal narratives, reports, or other original student writing, and they are judged on the four domains in the Georgia Performance Standards: Ideas, organization, cohesiveness, and language.

Each of these students won their HCSD grade-level district competition and will now compete with grade-level winners from the 15 school systems in the Pioneer RESA Region: Banks, Dawson, Fannin, Franklin, Gainesville City, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Lumpkin, Mountain Education Charter High School, Rabun Stephens, Towns, Union, and White County.Pioneer RESA will announce region winners in March.

Hall County Schools Young Georgia Authors District Finalists: 2024-2025

GRADE	SCHOOL	STUDENT NAME	TITLE OF WORK
K	Mount Vernon Elementary School	Ava Patrick	Having Fun on a Snow Day
1	Deal Elementary	Bliss McDaniel	Beary Likes Berries
2	Mount Vernon Elementary School	Stella Cox	Hi it’s Me! I’m the Sloth it’s me!
3	Sardis Elementary School	Cora Gaines	Bob’s Life!!!
4	Chestnut Mountain Elementary School	Katie Craig	Samantha and the Mysterious Neighbor
5	Mount Vernon Elementary School	Caroline Joyner	Daisy
6	South Hall Middle School	Michael McCullough	Gauntlets of Eldoria
7	North Hall Middle School	Elleigh Haynes	Two Worlds One Heart
8	North Hall Middle School	Annalise Williams	Underground
9	Johnson High School	Daniela Aguilar	When the Heart Speaks
10	North Hall High School	Catherine Wood	Tales from the Ticket Bo
11	North Hall High School	Aidan Everett Voyles	Ctrl + I
12	Johnson High School	Kevin Santibanez	Expired Enlightenment