Buena Vista student Trinity Sterns has won the Kent Haruf Memorial Writing Scholarship for 2020.
Kent Haruf’s signature. (Logo courtesy Kent Haruf Memorial Writing Scholarship)
The scholarship is open to high school juniors and seniors in Chaffee and Freemont counties. Students must have been previously unpublished to participate and could apply in four forms: short story, novel excerpt/novella, creative nonfiction, and playwriting.
The scholarship is sponsored by Cathy Haruf and the Salida Council for the Arts, and honors the memory of the late Kent Haruf, Salida resident and best selling author of The Tie That Binds, Where you Once Belonged,
Plainsong, Eventide, Benediction, and Our Souls at Night, which was produced as a movie.
The winning piece, entitled Oakwald, is a fictional short story “about a young girl, Olivia, battling between reality and her imaginative mind. Olivia lives in the forest with her mother and cannot accept her father’s absence; therefore, she decides to set off on her own to find her father and discover the truth.
Throughout her journey, Olivia’s real-life experiences sparks her imagination which often gives the readers glimpses of her past and memories of her father. She faces some challenges and meets wonderful people along the way, yet the end of her adventure holds an unexpected outcome, altering Olivia’s life”, Sterns told Ark Valley Voice.
Sterns is a graduating senior at Buena Vista High School. She will attend the University of Colorado Colorado Springs pursuing a degree in business and marketing in the fall of 2020. She says she enjoys reading, hiking with her dog, watching telenovelas with her sister, dance battles with her brother, singing around the house, and practicing Spanish in her free time.
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