Green River Star -

Hundreds of entries were whittled to three winners in each fiction, nonfiction and poetry category for this year’s Young Authors Awards in Green River.

Steve Schwartz, Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Young Authors coordinator and English teacher, said they received several hundred entries.

“I am unsure of exactly how many entries there were since the elementary schools judge their own, and then they send me their first through third place winners,” Schwartz said. “I really did appreciate that, since combing through so many entries can be a daunting task to say the least.”...