Twelve Hall County students representing seven schools are headed to the Georgia Authors District competition.
HALL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT (HCSD) NEWS RELEASE:
“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.”
