FICTION, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | One Last Time by Alana Roseman
2nd place | Driftwood by Anthony Carzon
3rd place | Dynamite by Saanvi Budhiraja
Honorable Mention | Poisoned by Eve Lung
Poetry, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | Words Must Be Powerful by Cora Lee
2nd place | Creative People by Akshara Datla
3rd place | The Empty Room by Mariam Dukhan
Honorable Mention | Giving Up by Saanvi Budhiraja
FICTION, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Cracks by Sanjana Datla
2nd place | Journey by Mehar Khanna
3rd place | Only in Times Like These by Olivia Carzon
Honorable Mention | Theodore by Liesl Brunner
Poetry, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | pretty places by Sanjana Datla
2nd place | the waiting by Gwenyth Richards
3rd place | Her by Krisha Patel
Honorable Mention | If You Only Knew by Mirabella Koponen
2021 Winners
FICTION, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | Palm Tree Murder by Sajana Datla
2nd place | A Summer to Remember by Cora Lee
3rd place | The Princess and Her Sword by Joshita Bureddy
Honorable Mention | A Chocolate Cupcake by Samiha Punjala
POETRY, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | The Punk Manifesto by Layla Bouguettaya
2nd place | Pretty by Gwenyth Richards
3rd place | Time by Angela Hwang
Honorable Mention | Head City by Cora Lee
FICTION, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Rest in Peace by Mehar Khanna
2nd place | I Couldn’t Come Up with a Title by Nikhil Desai
3rd place | The Wishing Tree by Liesl Brunner
Honorable Mention | Thanatos is Dead by Kriti Shirodkar
POETRY, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Winter’s Tail by Kriti Shirodkar
2nd place | Ashes in the Sky by Krisha Patel
3rd place | Symphonies of Pointe by Mehar Khanna
Honorable Mention | Homeschooled Girls by Cherilyn Percy
2020 Winners
FICTION, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | Evangeline by Sanjana Datla
2nd place | May 25, 2020 by Mehar Khanna
3rd place | More Than Words by Josie Blanchard
Honorable Mention | “Responsible Kid” Winifred Thompson by Emily Kim
POETRY, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | The River by Gwenyth Richards
2nd place | Imagine Your Story by Ty Hill
FICTION, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Aeternum by Kriti Shirodkar
2nd place | The Portrait on the Cup by Maria Cheriyan
3rd place | Dance of the Dead by Jonas Organ
Honorable Mention | The Tools to Be a Hero by Nikhil Desai
POETRY, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | A Toxic Relationship by Smriti Patil
2nd place | Cello Boy by Emma Newman
3rd place | The Tide by Cherilyn Percy
Honorable Mention | The Frog Princess by Kriti Shirodkar
2019 Winners
FICTION, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | The Final Curse by Nikhil Desai
2nd place | Lucky by Arya Karki
3rd place | Keys by Sanjana Datla
Honorable Mention | Hikaru’s Words by Emily Kim
POETRY, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | Real by Carmen Post
2nd place | Dimmed Spark by Anna Toranchuk
3rd place | The Mustang Squad of Five by Ben Parnin
Honorable Mention | Shine Different by Mya Guillermo
FICTION, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Long Live the King by Kriti Shirodkar
2nd place | Pancakes at Midnight by Emma Newman
3rd place | A Plot Hatched by Grace Ho
Honorable Mention | Synodic by Maria Cheriyan
POETRY, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Your Atoms by Kriti Shirodkar
2nd place | Intoxicated by Grace Ho
3rd place | How to Love the Moon by Maria Cheriyan
Honorable Mention | Reflections by Phebe Markowicz
2018 Winners
FICTION, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | Being Different by Mehar Khanna
2nd place | IONS: Library Meets Chaos by Olivia Carzon
3rd place | Starry Night at Sea by Sanjana Datla
Honorable Mention | A Rebel’s Story by Nikhil Desai
POETRY, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | A Boy Named Jane by Carmen Post
2nd place | Being a Girl by Stuti Goel
3rd place | My Backyard by Mehar Khanna
Honorable Mention | Reading Rocks! by Nidhi Mistry
FICTION, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Testimony of a Flower by Maria Cheriyan
2nd place | Espion by Grace Ho
3rd place | This is Love by Emma Newman
Honorable Mention | The Tail of the Whomper by Phebe Markowicz
POETRY, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Motherland or Homeland by Grace Ho
2nd place | Sidewalk Muse by Maria Cheriyan
3rd place | Sunrise by Hemil Shah
Honorable Mention | Nowhere by Phebe Markowicz
2017 Winners
FICTION, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | Higher than the Stars by Maria Cheriyan
2nd place | The Traveler by Grace Ho
3rd place | Passengers in Peril by Olivia Carzon
Honorable Mention | Rimstone Academy by Emma Christmas
POETRY, 11-14 YEARS
1st place | A Secret Kept by Maria Cheriyan
2nd place | What If by Eden Comer
3rd place | Autumn by Avery Christmas
Honorable Mention | Rules & Boxes by Jamea Kollie
FICTION, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Only the Beginning by MariaTeresa Carzon
2nd place | Driving Eyes by Melina Schaefer
3rd place | An Average Day in Paradise by Alex Marashai
Honorable Mention | Longing by Maya Sopory
POETRY, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | A Writer’s Block by Kaya James
2nd place | Advice from the Anxious by Smriti Patil
3rd place | Five or Six Letters by Elizabeth Ho
Honorable Mention | Blood Moon Rising by Anika Jane Beamer
2016 Winners
FICTION, 12-14 YEARS
1st place | Saber-Toothed Tigers by Anjali Chiravuri
2nd place | Alexei Baker Who’s No Longer a Bully by Emma Newman
3rd place | The Window by Grace Ho
Honorable Mention | A Long Day by Sophia Tesic
POETRY, 12-14 YEARS
1st place | Emotions by Zion Helms
2nd place | Lies by Lila Watch
3rd place | Late by Grace Ho
Honorable Mention | Summer is a Time by Eden Comer
FICTION, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Millen Jay: Apprentice of Magic by MariaTeresa Carzon
2nd place | The Girl Who Sat Across from Me
by Jennifer Chung
3rd place | Dereliction of Purity by Alex Marashai
Honorable Mention | Entering a Transportation Hub, or, The Minimal Effort Required to Succeed in Life by James Carzon
POETRY, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | A World of Tomorrow by Smriti Patel
2nd place | Dignity by Josephine Wenson
3rd place | Whispers by Veena Thamilselvan
Honorable Mention | Not applicable
2015 Winners
FICTION, 12-14 YEARS
1st place | Margot’s Tuesday by Melina Schaefer
2nd place | The Survey by Lila Watch
3rd place | Coming Home by Jubilee Wang
Honorable Mention | A Soldier’s Sister by Grace Ho
POETRY, 12-14 YEARS
1st place | Books by Abby Thomson
2nd place | New Penny Sky by Melina Schaefer
3rd place | Our World by Grace Ho
Honorable Mention | Show (The Difference Between “To” and “A”) by Emily Eahrow
FICTION, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Small Kindness by Robert Van Aartsen
2nd place | Camellia by Jalen White
3rd place | Art by Lorraine Furtado
Honorable Mention | He Would Have Given by Lisette Wittbrodt
POETRY, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | I Am Ariadne by Elizabeth Ho
2nd place | The Pressure of the Fleeting Moment by Sophia Jozwiak
3rd place | Lady Liberty is Not for Me by Megan Haase
Honorable Mention | Only Once — After Jaroslav Seifert by Madeline Loniewski
2014 Winners
FICTION, 12-14 YEARS
1st place | Nexus by Allison Hopkins
2nd place | Trickster by Elizabeth Ho
3rd place | Isolated by Sarah Hume
Honorable Mention | Not applicable
POETRY, 12-14 YEARS
1st place | The Stars Threw Back Their Arms by Anika Beamer
2nd place | I Am by Erin Abramczyk
3rd place | Sly as a Fox by Likitha Nimmagadda
Honorable Mention | Last Words by Cassidy Schuetz
FICTION, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Lily’s Colors by Jessica Kenely
2nd place | Pirtuk by Christiana Palmer
3rd place | Black and Blue, Blue and Pink by Genna Reed
Honorable Mention | Found by Ian Zaback
Honorable Mention | Don’t Go by Kristen Grider
POETRY, 15-19 YEARS
1st place | Cellist of Sarajevo by James Allbery
2nd place | Life in the Kitchen by Olivia Harlan
3rd place | Moon by Emily Aaron
Honorable Mention | A Musician’s Best Friend by Teagan Dillon