NORWICH – Three Norwich students were recently notified that their literary works have been picked up by the 2011 Susquehanna Apprentice Writer.

Original literary works by Lane deCordova, a junior at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania; Patricia McNeil, a junior at Norwich High School; and Julia Simcoe, a NHS senior, were chosen for publication. Their winning entries were among 70 that were selected from a pool of 3,500 submissions.

The Susquehanna Apprentice Writer (circ.11,000) is a publication of the Writer’s Institute at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Penn. It publishes poems, stories and personal essays by high school students from a 20-state area. The 2011 edition will be available in September.

DeCordova’s poem, “For Leon” and her short story, “Capital P” were selected. DeCordova is co-editor-in-chief of the Mercersburg Academy’s 2011 edition of Blue Review, its annual literary-arts journal of student work. She also took third place in the independent college-preparatory school’s annual monologue competition in March, and played Liesl in the Academy’s production of “The Sound of Music” this winter. She has performed in dance and vocal recitals at Mercersburg and represented her school in Poetry Out Loud slam competitions in Gettysburg.