Congratulations to our very talented 2023-24 Broward County Literary Fair winners:
Senior Kiley Irizarry won two awards, earning 1st place in the sonnet category and 3rd place in the ode category!
Senior Angelina Berger won two awards, earning 3rd place in the personal narrative category and 3rd place in the sestina category.
Junior Camila Vaca won second place in the literary comic strip category.
Senior Sade Alo won 3rd place in the villanelle category.
Congratulations to our TOP TEN
2023-24 Poetry Out Loud finalists!
Congratulations to the following winners of the 2022-23 Broward County Literary Fair!
- Lady Zuriel Ayebah: 1st Place – Poem for Two Voices
- Corene Scotland: 1st Place – Spoken Word
- Natalia Montgomery: 1st Place – Ekphrastic AND Sestina
- Kiley Irizarry: 3rd Place – Rhymed Verse
- Miriam Ikner: 3rd Place – Short Story
- Jovan Alfonzo: 3rd Place – Parody Poem
- Rebecca Castillo: 3rd Place – Informal Essay
Congratulations to our 2022-23 Poetry Out Loud Winner and STATE RUNNER-UP, Janessa Montilla!
Congratulations to winners of the 2022-23 PPCHS Literary Fair, who will represent us at the Broward County Literary Fair:
SPOKEN WORD: Corene Scotland
FREE VERSE: Maria Fuenes
RHYMED VERSE: Kiley Irizarry
SONNET: Kiahna Roberts
VILLANELLE: Isabella Lake
EKPHRASTIC POEM: Natalia Montgomery
SESTINA POEM: Natalia Montgomery
POEM FOR 2 VOICES: Lady Zuriel Ayebah
CINQUAIN: Luz Fontana-Mansilla
HAIKU: Sabrina Gonzalez
PARODY POEM: Jovan Alfonso
ODE: Zackary Harris
NARRATIVE: Alinah Adorno
SHORT STORY: Miriam Ikner
FORMAL ESSAY: Iris Lee
INFORMAL ESSAY: Rebecca Castillo
Congratulations to our 2022-23 top 10 Recite Night finalists:
Janessa Montilla
Rasika Sriram
Nitya Dave
Emma Schenker
Shivraj Singh
Sophia Lopez
Andria Subhit
Maria Funes
Chelsea Ugwuozor
Riley Bauer
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021-22 PPCHS Literary Fair, who will represent our school at this year’s Broward County Literary Fair!
SPOKEN WORD: Samantha Lowe
FREE VERSE: Jillian Medina
RHYMED VERSE: Jadelynn Corzo
VILLANELLE: Vrinda Gupta
EKPHRASTIC POEM: Nitya Dave
SESTINA POEM: Ariana Lesmes
CINQUAIN: Julianna Gonzalez
HAIKU: Paul Mcfarlane
SHRINKLIT POEM: Leo Graham
PARODY POEM: Rebecca Lim
ODE: Nitya Dave
SHORT STORY: Isabella Cely
INFORMAL ESSAY: Sumona Edvullari
Congratulations to our 2021-22 Poetry Slam Winner, Sophia Lopez!
Congratulations to our 2021-22 top 10 Recite Night finalists:
Sophia Lopez
Janessa Montilla
Emma Schenker
Mariana Riano
Natalia Montgomery
Isabella Rodriguez
Nitya Dave
Carolina Colonge
Julian Villarta
Helen Godoy
Congrats to our NEHS Writing Contest winner, Amanda Vasquez!
This writing contest has been popular and successful as an annual NEHS contest! Amanda won in the poetry category for her reverse poem.
Congratulations to our NEHS April Flash Fiction Challenge Winner, Alesha Fisher!
To end this year’s NEHS Flash Fiction Writing Challenge, we return to the popular “Six-Word Story.” Each submission must be a complete “story” that present a meaningful, rich, and complete text in just six words.
“For you…”
“I’d die for you!”
“I wouldn’t”
Congratulations to our 2020-2021 Literary Fair Winners!
Mariana Colicchio: 1st Place in the Formal Essay Category
Janell Penichet: 2nd Place in the Ode Category
Chino Villanueva: 3rd Place in the Shrink Lit Category
Alyssa Infante: 3rd Place in the Cinquain Category
Sumedha Marri: 3rd Place in the Fable Category
Fernanda Pena: 3rd Place in the Poet Laureate category
Congratulations to our 2020-2021 Poetry Slam winner, Ethan Correa!
“The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation have partnered with U.S. state arts agencies to support Poetry Out Loud, a contest that encourages the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation” (poetryoutloud.org).
Ethan will go on to compete in the Poetry Out Loud (virtual) state competition for a chance to compete at Nationals and win $20,000! Good luck Ethan, we’re so proud of you!
Congratulations to winners of the 2020-21 PPCHS Literary Fair, who will represent our school at this year’s Broward County Literary Fair!
Short story: Brianna de la Paz
Personal narrative: Vincenzo Di Corpo
Formal essay: Mariana Colicchio
Myth: Nicolle Sanchez
Fable: Sumedha Marri
Children’s book: Alexander Kocher
Free verse poem: Mariana Riano
Rhymed verse poem: Vrinda Gupta
Ekphrastic Poem: Chino Villanueva
Sonnet: Fernanda Pena
Villanelle: Victoria Torres
Ode: Janell Penichet
Poem for Two Voices: Athena Gijo
Cinquain: Alyssa Infante
Haiku: Janessa Montilla
Sestina: Brianna de la Paz
Shrink Lit poem: Chino Villanueva
Congratulations to our top 10 Recite Night finalists, who will go on to compete in our upcoming Poetry Out Loud competition as a part of our Poetry Slam, which will be held in January!
Nina Ally
Madison Bambino
Caitlyn Cabrera
Mariana Collichio
Ethan Correa
Amaya John
Jillian Medina
Zoe Mutombo
Emma Schenker
Edward Williams
NEHS would like to congratulate the following student writers who were honored at the 2019-2020 Broward County Literary Fair!
Jena Manning: 1st Place in the Spoken Word category!
Mya Saint-Louis: 1st Place in the Personal Narrative category!
Christina Copeland: 1st Runner-Up in the Poet Laureate competition!
Adrian Luis: 2nd Place in the Sestina category!
Ria Dave: 2nd Runner-Up in the Poet Laureate competition!
Brianna de la Paz: 3rd Place in the Short Story category!
Ria Dave: 3rd Place in the Parody Poem category!
Congratulations to all those honored at the Library Foundation Short Story Contest!
Brianna de la Paz: 1st place winner and “Best in Show” for ALL of Broward County!
Janell Penichet: 2nd place winner!
Sophia Mendoza: 3rd place winner!
Congratulations to Ava Johnson, STATE RUNNER-UP in the Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest!
Ava Johnson, our school’s 2018-19 Poetry Out Loud finalist, took judges by storm again at this year’s qualifying Recite Night round and our Poetry Slam POL finals, ranking first place at both events to qualify as our school’s 2019-20 finalist. As our PPCHS participant at the Poetry Out Loud state competition, Ava recited “The Mortician in San Francisco” by Randall Mann, “Thoughtless Cruelty” by Charles Lamb, and, since she advanced to the third and final round, “Dream Song 14” by John Berryman. Her stellar performances earned her the second place title at the state level, an honor which also came with a $300 award as well as $200 from the Poetry Foundation to add to our school library’s poetry collection! We are so very proud of Ava for representing Pembroke Pines Charter High School with such excellence!
Pembroke Pines Charter National English Honor Society 