We received 800+ submissions, and the Teen Writing Contest Committee is pleased to announce the following prizes, honors, and selections for the 2024 Teen Writing Contest & Ned Vizzini Teen Writing Prize.
Poetry
Middle School
- First Place: Probably by Stella Dempsey
- Second Place: Unbreakable by Gia Occean
- Honorable Mention: Where I'm From by Tamira Bradshaw
- Honorable Mention: Welcome to New York by Alan Kofman
- Honorable Mention: Monster Dream by Jeffrey Ortigoza
High School
- First Place: Unfinished Gun Poem by Arielle Lichtman
- Second Place: Mourner's Kaddish by Eliot Taber
- Honorable Mention: Cold Blue Seats by Maisie Carroll
- Honorable Mention: An Ode to a God I Do Not Worship by Tucker Griffith
- Honorable Mention: Scorpion by Adelaide Sendlenski
Prose
Middle School
- First Place: The Kingdom of Rats by Francine Joerg
- Second Place: A Girl Named Anxiety by Anya Gupta-Riccardi
- Honorable Mention: The Natural Society by Leo Sussman
- Honorable Mention: Monsters by Lina Kovner
- Honorable Mention: Witchcraft is Illegal by Annabel Prinsky
High School
- First Place: Ponytail by Zoe Chun
- Second Place: Best Friend by Dahlia Clark-Gercke
- Honorable Mention: Train Ride to Danger Station by Amanda Chen
- Honorable Mention: Wonderland by Thuy Holder-Vinh
Honorable Mention: Raising the Bar by Walker Varghese
The following additional selections from our finalists will also be published in our Teen Writing Journal:
Poetry
Middle School
- Essential Trio by Samantha Partridge
- Telephone by Rohan Tobey
- Contemplating Vincent van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles by Saviane Frazier
- Melting Memories by Tiffany Liew
- Dear Grandma by Elizabeth Walen
- In Praise of Darkness by Nadia Kelley
- No Rest by Johnny Rouse
High School
- The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree by Nordel Delma
- Descabezada by Brianna Narvaez
Prose
High School
- M&M Cookies by Talia Arcasoy
- On the Other Side of the World by Sara Omer
- The Long Walk by Ela Kini
- JUNEBUG by Mimi McNulty
- Local to Somewhere Else by Hannah Bahn
Congrats to our winners and many thanks to our staff readers and judges. Please join us for the 2024 Teen Writing Contest & Ned Vizzini Teen Writing Prize Celebration on Monday, June 10, 6:00pm-8:30pm.
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