It’s no stretch to say that each of us engages in numerous and diverse conflicts throughout our lives.  Write an essay in which you discuss your greatest life challenge or conflict and the literal and spiritual “things” you “carry” to remind you of, and help you cope with, that challenge.  How does Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried help you put your own challenge or conflict into perspective?

Winning Essays

• High School Student:  Sarah Denn, Danbury High School
• Western Connecticut State University Student:  Katrina Cumming
• Community:  Richard Cass, Brookfield, CT

Winners are awarded a $200 cash prize and will join author Tim O’Brien for dinner on October 26th.