Student Nabs Top Writing Award

BAR HARBOR — Maine’s Promising Young Writer of 2010 is an eighth-grade student from Bar Harbor’s Conners-Emerson School.

Isabel Erickson, the daughter of Jeff Erickson and Sue Murphy of Bar Harbor, is one of just 135 students nationwide to receive a Promising Young Writer award, which is presented annually by the National Council of Teachers of English.

On Wednesday, June 9, she will read from her work at the Jesup Memorial Library, on Mount Desert Street. The reading begins at 7 p.m., and refreshments will be served.

Ms. Erickson was judged on two pieces of writing, a short story called “Fate in the Inferno,” which she counts as her best work, and an excerpt from “Reverie,” a recently completed novella.

Writing is an art form, she said. It is a matter of painting a grand picture for the reader. “You can’t tell what happens. You have to take the reader into it so they can see it and touch it and smell it,” she said. “Every word matters.”

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