The winners in the 2024 Julie Meier Writers Competition at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library were notified of their placements May 24. In its 35th year, the competition is for fiction and nonfiction prose of 2,000 words or less with age groups from kindergarten to adult. The late Julie Meier, for whom the competition was named in 2018, created the program to encourage writing excellence and recognize talented writers.

June 1, 2024