The annual AHSGR Storytelling Contest invites members and nonmembers to capture the GR experience through storytelling. Both adults and youth can participate by submitting stories related to Germans from Russia. They can be either fiction or non-fiction. Winning stories are presented at the Storytelling Contest Finalists
presentation via Zoom and prize money is awarded!
2024
Short Story Category
1st Place: Maria Wohn Appelhans – Grandma Helena and the Miracle of “Our Daily Bread”
2nd Place: Shannon Bickford – Anna and the Ghost
Poetry Category
1st Place: Gregory Guiney – Life in Russia
2nd Place: Elijah Helm – Selected moments from the diaries of Margaret Helm
2023
Adult Winners & Honorable Mentions:
Kim Philp – “Voices from the Past”
Irene Reader – “How One Book Led to Another”
Kim Kraushar – “The Table that Tells Stories”
Donita Rotherham – “Larceny or German Russian Bigotry?”
Richard Hieb – “Lodis Germans from Russia”
Anne Stang – “Natures Bounty”
Susan Hammond – “Grandma and Me”
2022
Adult Winners & Honorable Mentions:
Mike Meisinger – “An Extraordinary ‘Ordinary’ Farmer”
Rosalinda Kloberdanz – “A Day of Song and Celebration”
Anthony Cocoran – “From one of our own: The Victory of Gertude Detzel”
Anne M. Stang – “German, Anyone?”
Shirley A. Pfeifer – “My Great Grand Parents”
2021
2019
July 23 – 27, Lincoln, Nebraska
Adult Winners & Honorable Mentions:
Why I am Passionate About Genealogy