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Will Norton and Isabella Ronchetti

Renaissance School students Will Norton and Bella Ronchetti, have been chosen as finalists in the Virginia Festival of the Book’s youth High School Poetry & Prose Contest.  They will be reading their work at the Poetry & Prose Celebration in the Omni Ballroom on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 7 p.m.  A reception with light refreshments will follow the reading.  Additional congratulations to Bella, who has also had a poem selected by Charlottesville’s Bus Lines poetry contest.  Her poem will be displayed on a Charlottesville City bus, and she will read her work as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book on March 16 at 6:00 pm at the Downtown Transit Station. And yet another feather in her cap: her photograph was selected as a finalist for the Tupelo Press Crossroads III Anthology.

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