EHFOP announces the overall winner and finalists for the 2018 Hemingway Foundation OPRF Scholarship Essay Contest

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is pleased to announce the winners and finalists for the Hemingway Shorts OPRF High School Essay Competition.  

In 2016, the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, with the help of the OPRFHS English Department and the OPRFHS Scholarship Fund, introduced the Hemingway Foundation Scholarship, with the intent of discovering and fostering writing talent at Hemingway’s alma mater.  The winner receives a $1,000 college scholarship award and a mentorship with the Foundation’s writer-in-residence during their senior year at OPRFHS. This scholarship reflects the Foundation’s belief in the importance of the written word and the value of thoughtful reading and writing.

This year marks the third annual contest; interested juniors with a GPA of 3.0 or higher were asked to write an essay of 300–600 words with the prompt, “what home means to me.”

Our winning essayist expands her definition of home to include the streets she drives in Chicago: Lake, North, Chicago, State, Wabash, Michigan. The Foundation is pleased to name Anna Koritz as the winner of the Hemingway Foundation Scholarship for her excellence in writing.  We would like to also recognize Eva Fuller and Anna Schoeny as our two scholarship finalists. These top three essays will be included in our third annual edition of Hemingway Shorts and we will recognize these three students at the Hemingway Foundation Gala Benefit on Saturday, May 19th.