2007 National Writing Portfolio Award Recipients
American Voices Award
Atlee High School, Mechanicsville, VA
Bay Point Middle School, St. Petersburg, FL
Design & Architecture Senior High, Miami, FL
Gray Middle School, Union, KY
Harlan Community Middle School, Harlan, IA
Katy Taylor High School, Katy, TX
Lakeview Christian, Bridgeville, PA
Options High School, Littleton, CO
Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Penn Manor High School, Millersville, PA
Providence H.S., Charlotte, NC
The Charter School of Wilmington, Wilmington, DE
Trinity HS, Diocese of Harrisburg, Camp Hill, PA
Whitmer High School, Toledo, OH
Writing Portfolio, Gold Award
Central Academy, Des Moines, IA
Charleston County School of the Arts, North Charleston, SC
Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Mount Carmel Academy, New Orleans, LA
Writing Portfolio, Silver Award
A.W. Dreyfoos S.O.A./G-Star S.O.A., West Palm Beach, FL
Bayside High School, Bayside, NY
Beechwood High School, Ft. Mitchell, KY
Bellaire High School, Bellaire, TX
Blue Valley North High School, Overland Park, KS
Cincinnati Country Day, Cincinnati, OH
Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA
Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, Miami, FL
Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX
Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Kennard-Dale HS, South Eastern SD, Fawn Grove, PA
Kerr High School, Houston, TX
Loyola School, New York, NY
Miami Palmetto Senior High, Miami, FL
Monte Vista Christian High School, Watsonville, CA
Monte Vista High School, Danville, CA
National Cathedral School, Washington, DC
Orange County High School of the Arts, Santa Ana, CA
Palatine High School, Palatine, IL
Ponderosa High School, Parker, CO
Providence H.S., Charlotte, NC
Rock Bridge High School, Columbia, MO
Rocky Mountain High School, Fort Collins, CO
Sanford School, Hockessin, DE
Scarlett Home School, Maumee, OH
School For Advanced Studies/South (Kendall Campus), Miami, FL
Sonoma Academy, Santa Rosa, CA
The Dwight School, New York , NY
The Kinkaid School, Houston, TX
The Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Waverly School, Pasadena, CA
Treynor High School, Treynor, IA
Troy High School, Troy, MI
Venice High School, Los Angeles, CA
W.G. Enloe High School, Raleigh, NC
Whitmer High School, Toledo, OH
Wilson High School, Portland, OR
Wyoming High School, Cincinnati, OH
Writing Gold Award
Academy of the Holy Names, Albany, NY
Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL
Annunciation Orthodox, Houston, TX
Bay Point Middle School, St. Petersburg, FL
Bedford High School, Temperance, MI
Birchwood School, Cleveland, OH
Brooklyn Friends School, Brooklyn, NY
Canyon del Oro, Tucson, AZ
Carlisle High School, Carlisle, PA
Carver Center for Arts and Technology, Towson, MD
Central Bucks West High School, Doylestown, PA
Central Dauphin East High School, Harrisburg, PA
Charleston County School of the Arts, North Charleston, SC
Clayton High School, Clayton , MO
Col. Zadok Magruder, Rockville, MD
Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York , NY
Cumberland Valley High School, Mechanicsburg, PA
Cy-Fair High School, Cypress, TX
Dartmouth High School, Dartmouth, MA
Deer Park Junior High School, Deer Park, TX
Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, Miami, FL
E. M. Cope Middle School, Redlands, CA
East Rapids Middle School, East Grand Rapids, MI
Episcopal Day School, Pensacola, FL
Fairfield Ludlowe High School, Fairfield, CT
Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
George H. Moody Middle School, Richmond, VA
Good Hope Middle School, Mechanicsburg, PA
Grace Church School, New York , NY
Gray Middle School, Union, KY
Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, Hartford , CT
Hamilton Middle School, Cypress, TX
Harvard-Westlake School, North Hollywood, CA
HB duPont Middle School, Hockessin, DE
Highlands High School, Ft. Thomas, KY
Hollis Brookline High School, Hollis, NH
Hunter College High School, New York, NY
In-House University and Whitney M. Young Magnet School, Chicago, IL
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
John F. Kennedy High School, Bellmore, NY
John Jay High School, Cross River, NY
Julius West Middle School, Rockville, MD
Katy Taylor High School, Katy, TX
Lamar High School, Arlington , Tx
Lamberton MS, Carlisle Area SD, Carlisle, PA
Landisville Middle School, Landisville, PA
League Academy of Communication Arts, Greenville, SC
Lee Homeschool, Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
Lincoln Public School, Lincoln, MA
Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor , CT
Lower Dauphin MS, Hummelstown, PA
Lutheran High School of the Rockies, Parker, CO
Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
Miami Palmetto Senior High, Miami, FL
Milton Academy, Milton, MA
Moanalua High, Honolulu, HI
Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, CA
Montoursville Area HS, Montoursville, PA
Moravian Academy, Bethlehem, PA
Motich Homeschool, Dillsburg, Dillsburg, PA
Murray Middle School, Murray, KY
New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math, New York, NY
North Posey Junior High, Poseyville, IN
Northern MS, Dillsburg, PA
Notre Dame Academy, Toledo, OH
NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies, New York , NY
Oak Hill Middle School, Newton, MA
Our Lady of Mercy Interparochial School, Park Ridge, NJ
Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Penn Manor High School, Millersville, PA
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
Preston High School, Bronx, NY
Rippowam Cisqua School, Bedford, NY
River Hill High School , Clarksville, MD
River Road Middle School, Amarillo, TX
Robert Cushman Murphy Junior High School, Stony Brook, NY
Rogers High School, Rogers , AR
Ross School, East Hampton, NY
Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY
Saint Theresa, Diocese of Harrisburg, New Cumberland, PA
Sanford School, Hockessin, DE
Scarlett Home School, Maumee, OH
Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, NY
Seven Sorrows Of The BVM, Diocese of Harrisburg, Middletown, PA
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, Greenville, SC
Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, Raleigh, NC
Southside Fundamental Middle School, St. Petersburg, FL
Spring High School, Spring, TX
St. George's Episcopal School, New Orleans, LA
St. John's School, Houston, TX
St. Joseph School, Bogota, NJ
St. Mark Catholic School, Plano, TX
St. Mary's Academy, Portland, OR
Staples High School, Westport, CT
Strack Int., Klein, TX
Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Susquehanna Township HS, Harrisburg, PA
T. H. Rogers Middle School, Houston, TX
Tenakill Middle School, Closter, NJ
The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, New York , NY
The Collegiate School, New York , NY
The Dalton School, New York, NY
The Kinkaid School, Houston, TX
The Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Toledo Early College High School, Toledo, OH
Tomball Junior High School, Tomball, TX
Trinity HS, Diocese of Harrisburg, Camp Hill, PA
Trinity School, New York, NY
University Laboratory High School, Urbana, IL
University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN
Villa Madonna Academy, Villa Hills, KY
Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
West Memorial Junior High School, Katy, TX
Westlake High School, Westlake Village, CA
William Alexander Middle School 51, Brooklyn, NY
William Morris, I.S. 61 , Staten Islance, NY
Willow Creek Middle School, Rochester , MN
Wooster School, Danbury, CT
Wylie E. Groves High School, Beverly Hills, MI
Writing Silver Award
American International School of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, 2021
Amity High School, Woodbridge, CT
Antilles High School, Ft. Buchanan, PR
Bay Point Middle School, St. Petersburg, FL
Beechwood High School, Ft. Mitchell, KY
Bellaire High School, Bellaire, TX
Beren Academy, Houston, TX
Birchwood School, Cleveland, OH
Bishop McDevitt HS, Diocese of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
Boardman Glenwood Middle School, Youngstown, OH
Boone County High School, Florence, KY
Brookside School, Allendale, NJ
Camp Hill MS, Camp Hill, PA
Carlisle High School, Carlisle, PA
Castilleja School, Palo Alto, CA
Cedar Cliff High School, Camp Hill, PA
Central Dauphin High School, Harrisburg, PA
Central High School, Phenix City, AL
Chaminade Julienne High School, Dayton, OH
Charleston County School of the Arts, North Charleston, SC
Churchill Junior High School, East Brunswick, NJ
Clay High School, Oregon, OH
Creative Home Educators Support Services, Palmyra, Palmyra, PA
Crossroads MS, West Shore SD, Lewisberry, PA
Dartmouth High School, Dartmouth, MA
Davidson IB M.S., Davidson, NC
Design & Architecture Senior High, Miami, FL
Duchesne Academy, Houston, TX
Fairfield High School, Fairfield, OH
Fairfield Warde High School, Fairfield, CT
Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
George H. Moody Middle School, Richmond, VA
George Mason High School, Falls Church, VA
George School, Newton, PA
Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, PA
Gray Middle School, Union, KY
Gulliver Pinecrest Middle School, Miami, FL
Gulliver Preparatory Academy, Pinecrest, FL
Halifax Area HS, Halifax, PA
Harlan Community High School, Harlan, IA
Harmony School of Learning, Olive Branch, MS
Harvard Westlake School, Los Angeles, CA
HB duPont Middle School, Hockessin, DE
Hershey High School, Hershey, PA
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX
Highlands High School, Ft. Thomas, KY
Hildebrandt Int., Spring, TX
Holub Middle School, Houston, TX
Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild , CA
Immaculate Academy Home School, Camp Hill, PA
Indian Hill High School, Cincinnati, OH
Jefferson County Open School, Lakewood, CO
Jefferson Senior High School, Alexandria, MN
Katy Taylor High School, Katy, TX
Kennebunk High School, Kennebunk, ME
Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest, IL
Lake Oswego High School, Lake Oswego, OR
Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis, TN
Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences, Brooklyn, NY
Lim Home School, Houston, TX
Lower Dauphin MS, Hummelstown, PA
Luther Preparatory School, Watertown, WI
Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA
Martha Brown Middle, Fairport, NY
Mechanicsburg Middle School, Mechanicsburg, PA
Media-Providence Friends School, Media, PA
Millburn High School, Millburn, NJ
Mitchell Home School, Dillsburg, PA
National Cathedral School, Washington, DC
New Albany High School, New Albany, OH
Newport HS, Newport, PA
Newton South High School, Newton, MA
Norman North High School, Norman, Ok
Northern MS, Dillsburg, PA
Notre Dame Academy, Toledo, OH
NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies, New York , NY
Oak Hill Middle School, Newton, MA
Ockerman Middle School, Florence, KY
Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Park Hill High School, Kansas City, MO
Pasadena Memorial High School, Pasadena, TX
PCCA @ Gibbs High School, St. Petersburg , FL
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
Prattville High School, Prattville, AL
Presbyterian School, Houston, TX
Providence H.S., Charlotte, NC
Ramaz High School, New York , NY
Red Land High School, Lewisberry, PA
Rippowam Cisqua School, Bedford, NY
Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy (MS/HS 141), Bronx, NY
Rogers CAPA Middle School, Pittsburgh, PA
Ross S. Sterling High School, Baytown, TX
Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY
Saint Joseph Catholic High School, Ogden, UT
Saint Joseph's of Yorkville, New York , NY
School For Advanced Studies/South (Kendall Campus), Miami, FL
School for the Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Seven Sorrows Of The BVM, Diocese of Harrisburg, Middletown, PA
Shippensburg Senior High School, Shippensburg, PA
Shorewood High School, Shoreline, WA
Siren Jr./Sr. High School, Siren, WI
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, Greenville, SC
St. Catherine Laboure, Diocese of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
St. George Elementary, Bourbonnais, IL
St. John's School, Houston, TX
St. Mary's Academy, Portland, OR
St. Paschal Baylon School, Highland Heights, OH
Stevenson Middle School , Carmel, CA
Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Susquehanna Township HS, Harrisburg, PA
T.R.U.C.E. The Renaissance University for Community Education, New York, NY
Tampa Preparatory School, Tampa, FL
Tenakill Middle School, Closter, NJ
The American Academy, Bryn Mawr, PA
The Baccalaureate School for Global Education, Astoria, NY
The Charter School of Wilmington, Wilmington, DE
The Computer School, New York, NY
The Harker School, San Jose, CA
The Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Lovett School, Atlanta, GA
The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
The Taft School, Watertown, CT
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, Alexandria, VA
Trinity School, New York, NY
University Ligget School, Grosse Pointe Woods , MI
Villa Madonna Academy, Villa Hills, KY
Village Bible Academy, Garden Grove, CA
Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA
Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
Watchung Hills Regional High School, Warren, NJ
Weinbaum Yeshiva High School, Boca Raton, FL
West High School, Iowa City, IA
West Perry High School, Elliottsburg, PA
Westchester Academy, Houston, TX
Westerville South High School, Westerville, OH
Westfield High School, Houston, TX
Wheatcroft Academy Home School, Stewartsville, NJ
William Alexander Middle School 51, Brooklyn, NY
American Voices Award
Atlee High School, Mechanicsville, VA
Student: Calvin Brown
phil; helen; untitled; for my country/nation; lazy Sunday gospel; the second hand on the clock, Poetry
Teacher: Julie Givler
Bay Point Middle School, St. Petersburg, FL
Student: Kristen Schwartz
Friends Born To Kick, Short Short Story
Teacher: Heather Ewing
Design & Architecture Senior High, Miami, FL
Student: Sarah Newberry
Ellen, Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Dianne Miller
Gray Middle School, Union, KY
Student: Sarah Kenkel
Crime, Short Story
Teacher: Mike Woods
Harlan Community Middle School, Harlan, IA
Student: Mary Kaufmann
Home at Last, Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Gloria Miller
Katy Taylor High School, Katy, TX
Student: Hannah Lou
The Pearl of Great Price, Short Story
Teacher: Susan Shellum
Lakeview Christian, Bridgeville, PA
Student: Jessica Zamboky
Phyre-Bird, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Nancy Shannon
Options High School, Littleton, CO
Student: Celia Cabodevilla
Mother Mannequin, Short Story
Teacher: Lori Snyder
Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Student: Emily Ludolph
Those Magnified Men and Their Flying Machines, Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Celeste Tramontin
Penn Manor High School, Millersville, PA
Student: William Hess
Teacher: Marianne Sullivan
Providence H.S., Charlotte, NC
Student: Katlin Barnes
Glory, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Marva Hambacher
The Charter School of Wilmington, Wilmington, DE
Student: Alexandra Watson
Atomic Bomb; Drain; Isolation; Meditation; sirens; Something to Remember; Tile with Footprints, Poetry
Teacher: Suzanna Rescigna
Trinity HS, Diocese of Harrisburg, Camp Hill, PA
Student: Megan Tyson
Lemons, Short Story
Teacher: Dlugolecki
Whitmer High School, Toledo, OH
Student: Laura Hinkle
Girl Contraband; This is someone else's guilt; your scissors on my dotted lines; years from now; in this room; dollar bill confessions; another student of picasso; mathematical equation of a broken love triangle; illegible, Poetry
Teacher: John Mohn
Writing Portfolio, Gold Award
Central Academy, Des Moines, IA
Student: Alyssa Songsiridej, General Writing Portfolio
Teacher: Jean Ellerhoff
Charleston County School of the Arts, North Charleston, SC
Student: Jessica Atkinson, General Writing Portfolio
Teacher: Rene Bufo Miles
Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Student: Dylan Suher, General Writing Portfolio
Teacher: Richard Roundy
Mount Carmel Academy, New Orleans, LA
Student: Laura Himel, General Writing Portfolio
Teacher: Gloria Doran
Writing Portfolio, Silver Award
A.W. Dreyfoos S.O.A./G-Star S.O.A., West Palm Beach, FL
Student: Sarah Halper
Teacher: Laurie Cohen
Bayside High School, Bayside, NY
Student: Sade Greene
Teacher: Elizabeth Bengels
Beechwood High School, Ft. Mitchell, KY
Student: Bill Kephart
Teacher: Ruth Johnson
Bellaire High School, Bellaire, TX
Student: Amy Vaughan
Teacher: Camille Quaite
Blue Valley North High School, Overland Park, KS
Student: Alexandra Mushegian
Teacher: Michelle Radio
Cincinnati Country Day, Cincinnati, OH
Student: Veronica Siverd
Teacher: Kelly Hammond
Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA
Student: Mary Catherine Curley
Teacher: John Palmer
Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, Miami, FL
Student: Drew Lerman
Teacher: Damon Halback
Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
Student: Anna Chandler
Teacher: Claire Bateman
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX
Student: Janet Thielke
Teacher: Christian Gibson
Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Student: Zack Friedman
Teacher: Kip Zegers
Kennard-Dale HS, South Eastern SD, Fawn Grove, PA
Student: Caroline Lees
Teacher: Benjamin Emerheiser
Kerr High School, Houston, TX
Student: Domale Dube
Teacher: Jana Johnson
Loyola School, New York, NY
Student: Oliver Reyes
Teacher: Christian Gregory
Miami Palmetto Senior High, Miami, FL
Student: Kit Jayne
Teacher: Kurt Panton
Monte Vista Christian High School, Watsonville, CA
Student: Xiaofei Chen
Teacher: Marcus Schwager
Monte Vista High School, Danville, CA
Student: Jinah Haytko
Teacher: Jenyth Utchen
National Cathedral School, Washington, DC
Student: Alexandra Petri
Teacher: Kay Dunkley
Orange County High School of the Arts, Santa Ana, CA
Student: Natalie Tsang
Teacher: Jennifer Todd
Palatine High School, Palatine, IL
Student: Shawna Wright
Teacher: Jeffrey Leathem
Ponderosa High School, Parker, CO
Student: Nicole Mangione
Teacher: Jennifer Newberry
Providence H.S., Charlotte, NC
Student: Zhuojie Chen
Teacher: Marva Hambacher
Student: Hannah Easley
Teacher: Marva Hambacher
Student: Sarah Humphries
Teacher: Marva Hambacher
Rock Bridge High School, Columbia, MO
Student: Ashish Premkumar
Teacher: Erica Morrison
Rocky Mountain High School, Fort Collins, CO
Student: Emily Garcia
Teacher: Jay Dukart
Sanford School, Hockessin, DE
Student: Caroline Ryon
Teacher: Helen Vermeychuk
Scarlett Home School, Maumee, OH
Student: Natalie Scarlett
Teacher: Michael Kocinski
School For Advanced Studies/South (Kendall Campus), Miami, FL
Student: Kristina Pazos
Teacher: Belkis Cabrera
Sonoma Academy, Santa Rosa, CA
Student: Nancy "Emma" Cline
Teacher: Marco Morrone
The Dwight School, New York , NY
Student: Samuel Lansky
Teacher: Nicole Lipson
The Kinkaid School, Houston, TX
Student: Hannah Rosenthal
Teacher: Angelique Jamail
The Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Student: Alice Baumgartner
Teacher: Alice Price
The Waverly School, Pasadena, CA
Student: Chloe Noland
Teacher: Amy Sedivy
Treynor High School, Treynor, IA
Student: Michelle Johnson
Teacher: Erica Schnepel
Troy High School, Troy, MI
Student: Sharon Wang
Teacher: Donna Guith
Venice High School, Los Angeles, CA
Student: Shicong Xie
Teacher: Jonathan Cooke
W.G. Enloe High School, Raleigh, NC
Student: Addie Honeycutt
Teacher: Joyce Nelson
Whitmer High School, Toledo, OH
Student: Laura Hinkle
Teacher: John Mohn
Wilson High School, Portland, OR
Student: Lindsay Baltus
Teacher: Karl Meiner
Wyoming High School, Cincinnati, OH
Student: Gina Florio
Teacher: Darby Lyons
Writing Gold Award
Academy of the Holy Names, Albany, NY
Student: Hilary Hemmings
Teacher: Ellen Loughney
The Dalmation, Short Short Story
Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL
Student: Ella Sorscher
Teacher: Iris Rinke-Hammer
Making Dessert, Poetry
Annunciation Orthodox, Houston, TX
Student: Kirby Sokolow
Teacher: Adam Georgandis
All Untitled, Poetry
Bay Point Middle School, St. Petersburg, FL
Student: Dylan Germack
Teacher: Veronica Foley
Ending Life With Dignity, Journalism
Bedford High School, Temperance, MI
Student: Kaitlin Oldaker
Teacher: Carrie Dadey
Love is Just Biology, Journalism
Birchwood School, Cleveland, OH
Student: Omar Diab
Teacher: Lorain Tzeng
Halfway Across the World, Personal
Essay Memoir
Student: Benjamin Giust
Teacher: Lorain Tzeng
A Dream Come True?, Short Short Story
Brooklyn Friends School, Brooklyn, NY
Student: Benjamin Morrison
Teacher: Sidney Bridges
Barnard Woman, Short Story
Canyon del Oro, Tucson, AZ
Student: Elizabeth Roberts
Teacher: Chris Yetman
Carlisle High School, Carlisle, PA
Student: Anthony Francavilla
Teacher: Jane Krebs
Carver Center for Arts and Technology, Towson, MD
Student: Zachary Conn
Teacher: Bonny Boto
How to Become a Rock Star, Humor
Central Bucks West High School, Doylestown, PA
Student: Michael Deagler
Teacher: Marie Kane
Occasus: Who But I Peeps From the Unknown
Dolmen Arch?, Poetry
Central Dauphin East High School, Harrisburg, PA
Student: Elizabeth Morris
Teacher: Sharon Hanks
Amputation, Poetry
Samantha and Jeanette Isabella, Short Story
Charleston County School of the Arts, North Charleston, SC
Student: Monique Collins
Teacher: Rene Bufo Miles
Blossomed in Naiveté, Short Story
Student: Katherine Cox
Teacher: Rene Bufo Miles
Sweet Dreams, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Student: Lauren DiNicola
Teacher: MaryAnn Henry
Spice, Short Short Story
Clayton High School, Clayton , MO
Student: Yue Pang
Teacher: Susan Teson
Sands, Dramatic Script
Col. Zadok Magruder, Rockville, MD
Student: Clio Chimento
Teacher: Sylvia Kim
College Daze, Humor
Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York , NY
Student: Clio Seraphim
Teacher: Maressa Grieco
Kind of Like a Topographical Map, Personal Essay Memoir
Student: Olivia Waxman
Teacher: Maressa Grieco
AP Classes: Why Some Schools Are Dropping Them, Journalism
Cumberland Valley High School, Mechanicsburg, PA
Student: Gianina Galatro
Teacher: David Emerick
Camdyn's World, Short Short Story
Cy-Fair High School, Cypress, TX
Student: Mariya Karimjee
Teacher: Catherine Hicks
The Truth About the Bug, Personal
Essay Memoir
Dartmouth High School, Dartmouth, MA
Student: Simon White
Teacher: Wilbur Higgins
The Lord of the Underworld Rise Again: New Album by the Mars Volta
is Heady, Intoxicating and Brilliant, Journalism
Deer Park Junior High School, Deer Park, TX
Student: Tyler Jenkins
Teacher: Sara Chapman
A Choice of Values, Journalism
Student: Brian Wondra
Teacher: Diane Gordon
Tastes Like Chicken, Humor
Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High, Miami, FL
Student: Jacob Nelson
Teacher: Mary Kate Sullivan
A Night from Last Summer, Short Short
Story
E. M. Cope Middle School, Redlands, CA
Student: Parth Raval
Teacher: Sondra Hodison
Prince Charming, Humor
East Rapids Middle School, East Grand Rapids, MI
Student: Alexis Bowen
Teacher: Linda Leiter
The Plastered Room, Poetry
Episcopal Day School, Pensacola, FL
Student: Barrett White
Teacher: Robin Bates
The City by the Sea, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Fairfield Ludlowe High School, Fairfield, CT
Student: Colin Fraher
Teacher: Frances Kondziela
Intellectuals Such as Ourselves, Dramatic
Script
Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
Student: Tina Bu
Teacher: Claire Bateman
Hitler Plays the Piano, Short Story
Student: Sarah Carnick
Teacher: Claire Bateman
George H. Moody Middle School, Richmond, VA
Student: Leigh Burnett
Teacher: Joan Crown
The Smothering Silver, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Student: Natalie Wong
Teacher: Joan Crown
The Ashes Risen, Short Story
Good Hope Middle School, Mechanicsburg, PA
Student: Tristan Greiner
Teacher: Terry Cornish
The Alchemist, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Grace Church School, New York , NY
Student: Michael Hotz
Teacher: Richard White
The Professor's Flight, Short Story
Gray Middle School, Union, KY
Student: Sarah Kenkel
Teacher: Mike Woods
Crime, Short Story
Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, Hartford , CT
Student: Jessica Roth
Teacher: Pit Pinegar
You Forget I Was Born in July; For Kata; who Likes to Dance; Adam;
Growing Citrus; Winter in July, Poetry
Hamilton Middle School, Cypress, TX
Student: Katherine Nguyen
Teacher: Candace Tannous
Birthday Candles, Personal Essay Memoir
Harvard-Westlake School, North Hollywood, CA
Student: William Alden
Teacher: Alan Buster
Find You in the Forest, Dramatic Script
This Girl Is a Bird, Dramatic Script
Student: Rebecca Title
Teacher: Beth Slattery
Last One Standing, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Student: Esther Zuckerman
Teacher: Kathleen Neumeyer
A Head with Heart, Journalism
HB duPont Middle School, Hockessin, DE
Student: Abigail Barber
Teacher: Colette McDonald
The Lovers' Dance, Poetry
Highlands High School, Ft. Thomas, KY
Student: Clare Ploucha
Teacher: Teri Foltz
Moth, Personal Essay Memoir
Hollis Brookline High School, Hollis, NH
Student: Dara Fisher
Teacher: Lin Illingworth
The Sexual Politics of Nerd Camp,
Humor
Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Student: Sabrina Ali
Teacher: Lori D'Amico
Burger Heaven, Humor
Student: Martin Jacobs
Teacher: Peter Melman
The Streets are Paved with Pain, Short
Story
Student: Han Beol Jang
Teacher: Kip Zegers
Rebellion (Encrypted), Poetry
Student: Maia McCormick
Teacher: Kimberly Airoldi
Trust Falls, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Student: Isabel Patkowski
Teacher: Kimberly Airoldi
Run, Verb: Fast Moving, Poetry
Student: Jennifer Quach
Teacher: Richard Roundy
To Be Anonymous, Short Short Story
Student: Emilia Richman
Teacher: Richard Roundy
Faces Dying, If I Had a Dime, Coming to
Pass, Now You Know, Poetry
Student: Joe Z. Ye
Teacher: Rembert Herbert
The Emerging Field of Nanothechnology, Journalism
In-House University and Whitney M. Young Magnet School, Chicago, IL
Student: Kevin Hong
Teacher: Colette Nies
Oh, to Be a Fly on the Wall, Humor
Bi Ta Hai, Personal Essay Memoir
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
Student: Anne Reece
Teacher: Ann Marie Oomen
Playing Cards with the Confessional Poets;
On Being Well Informed; Waiting for My Husband to Come Home from Fishing;
Darling Husband; What I Did with Myself, Poetry
John F. Kennedy High School, Bellmore, NY
Student: Margaret Sarsfield
Teacher: Vivian Lopez
Lost His Marbles, Poetry
John Jay High School, Cross River, NY
Student: Chelsea Gleason
Teacher: Victoria Weiss
Magenta, Short Story
Julius West Middle School, Rockville, MD
Student: Margaret Kelly
Teacher: Krista Fiabane
Katy Taylor High School, Katy, TX
Student: Hannah Lou
Teacher: Susan Shellum
The Pearl of Great Price, Short Story
Lamar High School, Arlington , Tx
Student: Lindsey Maxon
Teacher: Debbie Peach
HauntFest, Science Fiction/Fantasy
In the Arms of the Sea, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Playing God, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Lamberton MS, Carlisle Area SD, Carlisle, PA
Student: Daniel Mootz
Teacher: Jason Griffith
Holy Days Should Be Holidays, Journalism
Landisville Middle School, Landisville, PA
Student: Carlie Wetzel
Teacher: Christine LeFevre
League Academy of Communication Arts, Greenville, SC
Student: Missy Gaddy
Teacher: Teresa Blankenship
The Greatest Gift, Short Story
Lee Homeschool, Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
Student: Mary-Teresa Lee
Teacher: Brenda Lee
Lincoln Public School, Lincoln, MA
Student: Gabriella Fee
Teacher: Jennifer Herbert
The Bonds That Tie, and Break, Personal Essay Memoir
Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor , CT
Student: Patrick Howley
Teacher: Jeffrey Holcombe
24-Hour Analysis, Humor
Rita Harding Likes Them Tall, Humor
Lower Dauphin MS, Hummelstown, PA
Student: Erin Cooney
Teacher: Nancy Zeigler
Just Lipstick, Poetry
Lutheran High School of the Rockies, Parker, CO
Student: Connor Clark
Teacher: Rachel Hill
A Technique of Definite Utility for the Circumvention of Irritating
Problems Posed by Teachers, Humor
Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
Student: Jeannette Westwood
Teacher: Rick Hanford
Marie's Aquarium People, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Miami Palmetto Senior High, Miami, FL
Student: Tingyu Liu
Teacher: Lawrence Cox
The Fish Market, Short Short Story
Milton Academy, Milton, MA
Student: Jordana da Gloria
Teacher: Lisa Baker
Good Times; Meng, Poetry
Student: Hannah Pulit
Teacher: Lisa Baker
Dance Partner, Short Short Story
Starfish, Short Short Story
Out of the Blue, Short Story
Student: Helen Vradelis
Teacher: James Connolly
Anna; From Greta to Marlene; 1924; Eve
to the Daughters of Future Generations; Thicker than Water, Poetry
Moanalua High, Honolulu, HI
Student: Christine Perez
Teacher: Liane Voss
The Miracle Meat, Journalism
Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, CA
Student: Junchi Ke
Teacher: Lauryn Gahagan
Reading Between the Lines, Humor
Student: Thomas Shaw
Teacher: Kerry Hosmer
Extinguishing Fireflies, Short Story
Montoursville Area HS, Montoursville, PA
Student: Ty Russell
Teacher: Christine Kindon
The Mourner, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Moravian Academy, Bethlehem, PA
Student: Aleah Goldin
Teacher: John Marks
I Threw Up, Short Short Story
Motich Homeschool, Dillsburg, Dillsburg, PA
Student: Elizabeth Motich
Teacher: Mark Motich
The Unlikely Muse, Science Fiction/Fantasy
The Peephole, Short Short Story
Murray Middle School, Murray, KY
Student: Steven Arnold
Teacher: Debbie Bell
The Cellar, Short Short Story
New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math, New York, NY
Student: Rachel Sierzputowski
Teacher: Adam Miller
A Call-Up My Friend, Is Blowin' In the
Wind, Journalism
North Posey Junior High, Poseyville, IN
Student: Austen McBain
Teacher: Linda Reising
Yuutsuka, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Northern MS, Dillsburg, PA
Student: Jenna Hessert
Teacher: Pam Flood
The Price Of Peace, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Notre Dame Academy, Toledo, OH
Student: Andrea Schuler
Teacher: Laura Gallaher
Smoke and Mirrors, Short Short Story
NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies, New York , NY
Student: Zoe Davis-Chanin
Teacher: Sarah Goffman
Conquering the World In a Hole, Short Short Story
Student: Nathan Klein
Teacher: Kate Grodin
The Clone, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Student: Casey Weiser
Teacher: Melicca McCormick
Amprine, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Oak Hill Middle School, Newton, MA
Student: Mariana Cohen
Teacher: Kathe Langberg
Tearless, Personal Essay Memoir
Student: Victoria Wilson
Teacher: Kathe Langberg
In My Mother's Footsteps, Personal Essay Memoir
Our Lady of Mercy Interparochial School, Park Ridge, NJ
Student: Amy DiPierro
Teacher: Jeanne Weisman
The S Files (T.V. Show), Humor
Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Student: Nell Schwed
Teacher: Todd Johnson
Leech Legs, Short Short Story
Penn Manor High School, Millersville, PA
Student: Amanda Kennedy
Teacher: Michelle Wolfersberger
Mamma Mia, Short Short Story
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
Student: Tara Burton
Teacher: Rosanna Salcedo
Excavating The Roman Soul, Personal Essay Memoir
Student: Tara Burton
Teacher: Rosanna Salcedo
The Onion Wife, Short Story
Preston High School, Bronx, NY
Student: Kimberly Leich
Teacher: Jane Grendell
Choices, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Rippowam Cisqua School, Bedford, NY
Student: Avery Chase
Teacher: Cathy Greenwood
Raymond Cay, Short Short Story
River Hill High School , Clarksville, MD
Student: Ellie Williams
Teacher: Linda Storey
River Road Middle School, Amarillo, TX
Student: Madison Ferril
Teacher: Donna Kerr
The True Soldier's Honor, Science
Fiction/Fantasy
Robert Cushman Murphy Junior High School, Stony Brook, NY
Student: Ruoyi Jiang
Teacher: Faith Krinsky
Rogers High School, Rogers , AR
Student: Melody Hill
Teacher: Grimsley Graham
Dum Spiro, Spero, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Ross School, East Hampton, NY
Student: Eugenie Carabatsos
Teacher: Shelby Raeback
In Their Glory, Dramatic Script
Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY
Student: Joanna Beer
Teacher: Marty Skoble
Split Down the Middle, Dramatic Script
Student: Samuel Brudner
Teacher: Michael Donohue and Matt Laufer
Student: Alex Connolly
Teacher: Jane Avrich
News In Brief, Humor
When Playing It Safe Becomes Risky,
Journalism
Student: Nicole Maffeo
Teacher: Toni Yagoda
The Chess Master, Personal Essay Memoir
Student: Aaron Martin
Teacher: Ruth Chapman and Marty Skoble
Rumplebushkin, Humor
Student: Claire Zabel
Teacher: Marty Skoble
Marco and the Sea Princess: A Fairy Tale, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Saint Theresa, Diocese of Harrisburg, New Cumberland, PA
Student: Meagan Kurland
Teacher: Weltmer
The Asylum Of Saint Matthews, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Sanford School, Hockessin, DE
Student: Caroline Ryon
Teacher: Helen Vermeychuk
Splintered, Dramatic Script
Scarlett Home School, Maumee, OH
Student: Natalie Scarlett
Teacher: Michael Kocinski
Ailments of the throat; my father; what
brooke said when she was hallucinating; infinity; the girl whose tooth
was the spanish inquisition, Poetry
Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, NY
Student: Alexander Rosenberg
Teacher: Howard Rodstein
Seven Sorrows Of The BVM, Diocese of Harrisburg, Middletown, PA
Student: Jillian Kinsey
Teacher: Dana Kinsey
The Prince Of Pencils, Humor
A Night to Remember, Personal Essay Memoir
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, Greenville, SC
Student: Kellie Osborne
Teacher: George Singleton
Soapbox Politics, Short Story
Student: Temnete Sebhatu
Teacher: Cynie Cory
Student: Erin Weeks
Teacher: Cynie Cory
Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, Raleigh, NC
Student: Denise Rickman
Teacher: Elizabeth Kaulfuss
Egg Girl, Short Story
Southside Fundamental Middle School, St. Petersburg, FL
Student: April Lanuza
Teacher: Holly Atkins
Where I'm From, Poetry
Spring High School, Spring, TX
Student: Iulia Manolache
Teacher: Jami McKey
Three Centimeters and Eight Millimeters, Personal Essay
Memoir
St. George's Episcopal School, New Orleans, LA
Student: Celeste Cahn
Teacher: Tanya Gural
A Mother's Love, Poetry
St. John's School, Houston, TX
Student: Elliot Franshaw
Teacher: Michael Seckman
Day 1, Short Story
Student: Annie Gallay
Teacher: Sharon Fabriz
Macaroni, Humor
The End of the World, Short Story
Student: Lauren Hitzhusen
Teacher: Michael Seckman
Dear Harry Potter, Humor
Student: Amrapali Maitra
Teacher: Bart Thornton
Pull the Ripchord, Short Short Story
St. Joseph School, Bogota, NJ
Student: Amanda Campen
Teacher: Laura Riviello
Henry's Heart, Personal Essay Memoir
St. Mark Catholic School, Plano, TX
Student: Cathryn Johns
Teacher: Debbie Lewis
Isabelle, Short Short Story
St. Mary's Academy, Portland, OR
Student: Bridget Brewer
Teacher: Sara Salvi
House of Leaves, Short Story
Staples High School, Westport, CT
Student: Aaron Kiersch
Teacher: Steve Rexford
Two Heroes, One Common Dream, Journalism
Student: Kathryn Llewellyn
Teacher: Gus Young
Flavor, Journalism
Strack Int., Klein, TX
Student: Katherine Rollinson
Teacher: Ann Fulkerson
Into the Chain Link Fence, Short Story
Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Student: Polina Danilyuk
Teacher: Annie Thoms
Onion Man, Short Story
Student: Serge Morrell
Teacher: Jonathon Weil
Room 5001, Journalism
Susquehanna Township HS, Harrisburg, PA
Student: Anne Staudenmaier
Teacher: William Burns
Snakes and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales, Science Fiction/Fantasy
T. H. Rogers Middle School, Houston, TX
Student: Michael Franco
Teacher: Susan O'Connor
The Games, Short Story
Student: Lumeng Li
Teacher: Susan O'Connor
Melody of the Heart, Short Story
Tenakill Middle School, Closter, NJ
Student: Lauren Fouch
Teacher: Lois Bogosian
Unknown Fame, Dramatic Script
Student: Kristina Rogan
Teacher: Lois Bogosian
Space Program, Journalism
The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, New York , NY
Student: Noa Bendit-Shtull
Teacher: Rebecca Segall
Discovering Marian, Short Story
The Collegiate School, New York , NY
Student: Theodore Lamm
Teacher: Adam Bresnick
The Dalton School, New York, NY
Student: Eve Levin
Teacher: Ariel Levenson
Wearing Thin: The War Against Pro-Ana Websites, Journalism
The Kinkaid School, Houston, TX
Student: Zachary West
Teacher: Carolyn McCarthy
Pedro's Lucky Day, Short Short Story
The Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Student: Benjamin Firke
Teacher: Tim Cronister
A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Dramatic
Script
Toledo Early College High School, Toledo, OH
Student: Feliza Casano
Teacher: Paulette Dewey
Full of Grace, Short Short Story
Tomball Junior High School, Tomball, TX
Student: Zachary Musick
Teacher: Bernice Valenzuela
Superfly Episode 1: Superfly's Origin,
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Trinity HS, Diocese of Harrisburg, Camp Hill, PA
Student: Kathryn Mallory
Teacher: Mary Lou Bytof
Cutting The Cable, Humor
Trinity School, New York, NY
Student: Katharine Pitt
Teacher: Saul Isaacson
The Berkshire House, Personal Essay Memoir
University Laboratory High School, Urbana, IL
Student: Sindha Agha
Teacher: Rosemary Laughlin
Remembering the Velveteen Rabbit, Short Story
University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN
Student: Frances Wright
Teacher: Robbie McKay
Apple Trees; After the Second Act; Grackles;
Pen; Acolyte, Poetry
Villa Madonna Academy, Villa Hills, KY
Student: Monica Pence
Teacher: Janet Mitchell
Sunday Morning Chaos, Short Short Story
Student: Sarahmarie Specht-Bird
Teacher: Joan Willoughby
Past Tense, Short Story
Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
Student: Ming Min Hui
Teacher: Brian McAuliffe
Hei, Short Short Story
West Memorial Junior High School, Katy, TX
Student: Brianna Compton
Teacher: Margaret Davis
The Nerve Wreck 'n Rodeo, Personal Essay Memoir
Westlake High School, Westlake Village, CA
Student: Chelsea Ma
Teacher: Caron Battaglia
Lovely Scars, Personal Essay Memoir
William Alexander Middle School 51, Brooklyn, NY
Student: Johnny De La Cruz
Teacher: John McEneny
A Day in the Life of Barbie and Ken,
Humor
Student: Rachel Linderman
Teacher: John McEneny
Prajna In Bombay, Dramatic Script
Student: Amanda Mendez
Teacher: John McEneny
A Fight for Justice: An Afghani Story,
Dramatic Script
Student: Liam Sullivan
Teacher: John McEneny
Magic Behind the Dice, Dramatic Script
William Morris, I.S. 61 , Staten Islance, NY
Student: Miryam Coppersmith
Teacher: Jennifer Burtner
Daguerre, Boulevard du Tample, Paris 1838, Short Short Story
Willow Creek Middle School, Rochester , MN
Student: Claire Williams
Teacher: Christine Harmon
Armchair Patriots, Poetry
Wooster School, Danbury, CT
Student: Thea Goodrich
Teacher: Heidi Ostendarp
Wylie E. Groves High School, Beverly Hills, MI
Student: Claire DiVizio
Teacher: Susan Mundy
Labyrinth, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Writing Silver Award
American International School of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, 2021
Student: Lucas de Gracia
Windmill Hill , Poetry
Teacher: Jack Wysslockner
Amity High School, Woodbridge, CT
Student: Linda Peng
Aim , Short Short Story
Teacher: Rosette Liberman
Antilles High School, Ft. Buchanan, PR
Student: Caroline Castro
Picking Up My Cross , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Edna Martin
Bay Point Middle School, St. Petersburg, FL
Student: Nicolas Cerf
Get A Clue , Humor
Teacher: Veronica Foley
Student: Gabriella Chisari
The Census , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Veronica Foley
Student: Michelle Quibang
A Boy's Lie , Poetry
Teacher: Heather Ewing
Beechwood High School, Ft. Mitchell, KY
Student: Larson Gilmore
The Final Harvest , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Ruth Johnson
Student: Jacob Maus
The Midas Touch , Short Story
Teacher: Peggy Burnett
Bellaire High School, Bellaire, TX
Student: Margaret Bevilacqua
Now Called Mother , Short Short Story
Teacher: Lucy Seward
Beren Academy, Houston, TX
Student: Benjamin Zabelshansky
Pandora's Box , Journalism
Teacher: Carol Liberman
Birchwood School, Cleveland, OH
Student: Omar Diab
Punishment , Humor
Infinity , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Lorain Tzeng
Bishop McDevitt HS, Diocese of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
Student: Michael Blaisse
Just A Pencil , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Robert Rempe
Boardman Glenwood Middle School, Youngstown, OH
Student: Aurora Thornton
Harugo the Dragon and Geliana the Elf , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Nicholas Colla
Boone County High School, Florence, KY
Student: Alexander Leduc
The Lies that I Believe , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Durrell "Butch" Hamm
Brookside School, Allendale, NJ
Student: Ashley Flagg
Child Labor is Cruel and Vile , Journalism
Teacher: Christine Andicoechea
Camp Hill MS, Camp Hill, PA
Student: Emily Sanchez
Ellie , Short Short Story
Teacher: Brenda DeLellis-Johnson
Carlisle High School, Carlisle, PA
Student: Ashton Roudabaugh
Another Trip , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Carla Smith
Student: Jason Smith
Charlie Brown: The True American Hero ,
Humor
Teacher: Marsha Mentzer
Student: Alexandra Knobel
Nudgemama's Memory , Personal Essay
Memoir
Teacher: Marcella Pixley
Castilleja School, Palo Alto, CA
Student: Grace Chen
The Blazing Bonnet , Personal Essay
Memoir
Teacher: Nancy Ware
Cedar Cliff High School, Camp Hill, PA
Student: Ben Chadwell
Memoirs Of Life And Death , Short Short
Story
Teacher: Julie Bowerman
Student: Margaret Phenicie
History Buffs , Humor
Teacher: Angela Maxton
Central Dauphin High School, Harrisburg, PA
Student: Tessa Cicak
Paint , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Colleen Wenzler
Central High School, Phenix City, AL
Student: Carly Addison
Steps , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Barbara Romey
Chaminade Julienne High School, Dayton, OH
Student: Zoe Lang
Just a Summer Night , Personal Essay
Memoir
Teacher: Jim Brooks
Student: Ellen Manovich
The Knife , Short Story
Teacher: James Brooks
Student: Julia Philips-Roth
To Follow the Sun , Short Story
Teacher: Jim Brooks
Charleston County School of the Arts, North Charleston, SC
Student: Lauren DiNicola
The Boy from Baltimore , Humor
Teacher: MaryAnn Henry
Student: Rachael Lee
Sudden Ideas; Being Despondent; To Thunderstorms
, Poetry
Teacher: Rene Bufo Miles
Churchill Junior High School, East Brunswick, NJ
Student: Mona Antani
The Lorkshire Mystery , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Susan Whelan
Clay High School, Oregon, OH
Student: Jillian Ball
Dragon's Eyes , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Amy Heuring
Creative Home Educators Support Services, Palmyra, Palmyra, PA
Student: Lisa Borghi
Upon A Horse , Poetry
Teacher: Debra Bell
Crossroads MS, West Shore SD, Lewisberry, PA
Student: Ana Sanchez
Remembering Rose , Short Story
Teacher: Mark Heisey
Dartmouth High School, Dartmouth, MA
Student: Simon White
Life's an Odyssey, Mate: Danny Deckchair
Rides High , Journalism
Teacher: Wilbur Higgins
Davidson IB M.S., Davidson, NC
Student: Karli Evans
Green Grass , Poetry
Teacher: Andrea Monroe
Design & Architecture Senior High, Miami, FL
Student: Jasmine Nones-Newman
A Wave of Gray , Short Short Story
Teacher: Daniel Rock
Duchesne Academy, Houston, TX
Student: Maria Willhoit
Barbie Doll , Poetry
Teacher: Ktty Mattesky and Ginny Crosthwait
Fairfield High School, Fairfield, OH
Student: Mindy Cimini
Cloudy Night , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Dianne Robinson
Fairfield Warde High School, Fairfield, CT
Student: Stephanie Newman
Views from a City: Grocers Stand; Bicycle
Rider; A Rejection Accepted; Nightfall; Painting , Poetry
Teacher: Christian Donlon
Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
Student: Rachael Gallman
Y; Bubble; Dustfall; Photo; Finer Spaces:
A Prose Poem; To A Leaf; For Ben Who Never Asked , Poetry
Teacher: Claire Bateman
Student: Max Lasser
Clock; High Horse; Fading; Psalm #555-3,247;
Light Bulbs; Gallery; Glitch , Poetry
Teacher: Claire Bateman
Student: Mary Murphy
Four Ways of Incinerating a Story; Kennel
Crew; Creased; The Scent of Drowning; A Field Guide to Playing; Wires:
A Rearrangeable Poem; Barbie; Sand Dollar; Braids; Spider Legs; Hair
, Poetry
Teacher: Claire Bateman
George H. Moody Middle School, Richmond, VA
Student: Marina Childers
Rotten Lettuce , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Joan Crown
Student: Ryan Fauber
In the Beginning , Humor
Teacher: Joan Crown
George Mason High School, Falls Church, VA
Student: Margaret Lipman
Opinion Piece/Commentary Nation's 'Ho-Hum'
Response to Red Lake Shows Lack of Concern for Native Americans ,
Journalism
Teacher: Melissa Raeder
George School, Newton, PA
Student: Christine Pontecorvo
Dog Days , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Colette Weber
Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, PA
Student: Benjamin Hyman
The Age of Irony , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Peter Drewniany
Gray Middle School, Union, KY
Student: Samantha Shnider
The Other Side of the World , Short
Story
Teacher: Heather Gough
Gulliver Pinecrest Middle School, Miami, FL
Student: Paige Hickey
The Rush; They Travel Together , Poetry
Teacher: John Chenet
Student: Sila Pinto
The Top; Shadows; Liquid Grief , Poetry
Teacher: John Chenet
Gulliver Preparatory Academy, Pinecrest, FL
Student: Christina Pina
The Adventures of Samantha Spade ,
Dramatic Script
Teacher: Allison Johnson
Halifax Area HS, Halifax, PA
Student: Landon Reitz
Catch , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Agnes Kelly
Harlan Community High School, Harlan, IA
Student: Brent Goetzinger
A Year At the Circus , Short Story
Teacher: Sally Claussen
Student: Kery Lawson
The Novel Idea , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Sally Claussen
Harmony School of Learning, Olive Branch, MS
Student: Clarissa Dunbar
The New House; Memoirs of a Ghetto; Journey
of a Pen , Poetry
Teacher: Charliene Dunbar
Harvard Westlake School, Los Angeles, CA
Student: Jack Mankiewicz
Someday They'll Ripen; The Invasion; Off
to College; Prizefighter; Summer Day; Nature's Calling Card , Poetry
Teacher: Frances Norris
HB duPont Middle School, Hockessin, DE
Student: Elana Friedman
Ribbons for Bert , Poetry
Teacher: Colette McDonald
Hershey High School, Hershey, PA
Student: Kelsey O'Brien
It Is What You Make Of It , Dramatic
Script
Teacher: Michelle O'Brien
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX
Student: Janet Thielke
Taotie , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Christian Gibson
Highlands High School, Ft. Thomas, KY
Student: Anne Stephens
Voltaire & the Penguins , Personal
Essay Memoir
Teacher: Teri Foltz
Hildebrandt Int., Spring, TX
Student: Joey Dominguez
Strokes of Luck , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Lea Ann Ponder
Holub Middle School, Houston, TX
Student: Natalie Dunn
A Last Taste of Sunshine , Short Story
Teacher: Tina Lorance
Hunter College High School, New York, NY
Student: Maia McCormick
It's Never Dark In New York City ,
Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Kimberly Airoldi
Student: Stephen Piccarella
Untitled , Short Story
Teacher: Lynda Kong
Student: Anna Wang
Stockholm Syndrome , Personal Essay
Memoir
Teacher: Lois Refkin
Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild , CA
Student: Marlo Barrera
Nesting Spiders; How I Survived the Arctic;
Elegy to the Cricket at Night Time , Poetry
Teacher: Ed Skoog
Immaculate Academy Home School, Camp Hill, PA
Student: John-Paul Heil
The Adventures of Porpoise Pete , Humor
Teacher: Sarah Heil
Indian Hill High School, Cincinnati, OH
Student: Priyanka Mitra
Plutonium, Beer and the United States Government
, Journalism
Teacher: Jennifer Montani
Jefferson County Open School, Lakewood, CO
Student: Whitney Bard
[untitled]; Strangest Of The Blue-Eyed
Dogs; Sixteen: Summer; three o'clock photograph; Environmentalight;
Bicycle Revival; Match This Like A Spoon To It's Brother; Potluck: Eyes-Sliced.
, Poetry
Teacher: Benjamin Dancer
Jefferson Senior High School, Alexandria, MN
Student: Lauren Minnerath
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Capitalize
, Humor
Teacher: Scott Fodness
Katy Taylor High School, Katy, TX
Student: Maria Paula Sadler
Digging , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Susan Shellum
Kennebunk High School, Kennebunk, ME
Student: Michael Schoch
Watching Kids in the Park , Short Story
Teacher: Elizabeth Carlson
Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest, IL
Student: Ravi Mulani
A Monstrous Crime , Journalism
Teacher: Chris Finley
Lake Oswego High School, Lake Oswego, OR
Student: Max Ehrenfreund
Rain; The Last Day of Summer; Making Room
for their Spirits; Our Secret Paradox , Poetry
Teacher: Doris Wirtz
Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis, TN
Student: Taylor Stavely
Christina's Epiphany , Short Short
Story
Teacher: Ginger Reese
Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences, Brooklyn, NY
Student: Jeanette Anderson
Music Numbs Old Stereos in Brooklyn's Rip
Off Manhattan; etc. , Poetry
Teacher: Victoria Sottile
Lim Home School, Houston, TX
Student: Rebekah Lim
A Close Call , Personal Essay Memoir
The Fulcrum , Poetry
Teacher: Shirley Lim
Lower Dauphin MS, Hummelstown, PA
Student: Mackenzie Enders
The Battle For Gyptopia , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Diane Giuliano
Student: Shannon Weaver
Angels In The City , Short Story
Teacher: Beverly Sweeger
Student: Lindsey Yingst
A Cosmopolitan And A Nap , Short Short
Story
Teacher: Nancy Zeigler
Luther Preparatory School, Watertown, WI
Student: Reese Hartmann
The Road; The Reaping Season; The Village;
Untitled; Solitude; The Tiger Shell , Poetry
Teacher: Greta Westphal
Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA
Student: Rose Winer
Amazon; Ode to My Keys; Glimpse of the
Unreal; Emptiness; Name , Poetry
Teacher: Reid Cottingham
Martha Brown Middle, Fairport, NY
Student: Clare Grieve
Kai , Short Short Story
Teacher: Sarah Farrelman
Mechanicsburg Middle School, Mechanicsburg, PA
Student: Grace Koppenheffer
A Sister's Hero , Short Story
Teacher: Janet Kulikowski
Media-Providence Friends School, Media, PA
Student: Rebecca Marcus
Once Upon a Fly… , Humor
Teacher: Nancy Allison
Millburn High School, Millburn, NJ
Student: Jacob McNulty
Roberts' Reticent Rhetoric , Journalism
Teacher: Marilyn Drennan
Mitchell Home School, Dillsburg, PA
Student: Amanda Mitchell
The Alchemy Of Peanut Butter And The Destiny
Of Chocolate Fudge , Humor
Teacher: Leissa Mitchell
National Cathedral School, Washington, DC
Student: Alexandra Petri
Rainbows , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Kay Dunkley
New Albany High School, New Albany, OH
Student: Jessica Holler
After a Long Time Waiting; Pangu Takes
it all Back; Young Bacchus; From the Hinterlands , Poetry
Teacher: Frances Robbins
Newport HS, Newport, PA
Student: Jillian Ehrisman
The Place Between Life And Death Is Sometimes
Called Love , Short Story
Teacher: A. Christine Mclaughin
Newton South High School, Newton, MA
Student: Jie-Yoon Yang
I Saw the Number Five in Gold; Null//Void;
My Fault Again; Lullaby , Poetry
Teacher: Lisa Alicino
Norman North High School, Norman, Ok
Student: Yonathan Reches
A Saudi Identity , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Kathy Woods
Northern MS, Dillsburg, PA
Student: Lauren Bagian
The Pocket Watch , Short Story
Teacher: Pam Flood
Notre Dame Academy, Toledo, OH
Student: Andrea Schuler
Survival in Hell , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Laura Gallaher
NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies, New York , NY
Student: Paulina (Lina) Cole
Patriotic? I Think Not! Rambling on the
USA Patriot Act , Journalism
Teacher: Sharmilla Araya
Oak Hill Middle School, Newton, MA
Student: Jane Qu
Shield of Denial , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Kathe Langberg
Ockerman Middle School, Florence, KY
Student: Nichole Moore
Silent Cry , Poetry
Teacher: Sandy Hamilton
Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Student: Daniel Sauermilch
Unexpected Words , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Eric Weisberg
Park Hill High School, Kansas City, MO
Student: Elizabeth Perry
The Machine of April 14, 1912 , Science
Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Angela Morales
Pasadena Memorial High School, Pasadena, TX
Student: Lisa Vavricka
The Snake Story , Humor
Teacher: Mona Robinson
PCCA @ Gibbs High School, St. Petersburg , FL
Student: David Brinkman
Visions Of Sugar Plums , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Sara Dubbeld
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
Student: Tara Burton
Dreaming of D.H. Lawrence , Personal
Essay Memoir
Heroes , Personal Essay Memoir
A Night of Le Lapin Agole; The Homecoming;
Micro; A Low (?) to a More Without Meaning; Technicolor Confessions
, Poetry
Catullus Downtown , Short Story
The Celluloid Six-Train , Short Story
Waiting for Shakespeare , Short Story
Teacher: Rosanna Salcedo
Prattville High School, Prattville, AL
Student: Whitney Milam
The Teaching of Evolution in Schools: Bias,
Lies and Consequences of a Thoery's Indoctrination , Journalism
Teacher: Gloria Kuykendall
Presbyterian School, Houston, TX
Student: Jessica Steinmetz
Seeing Through the Darkness , Personal
Essay Memoir
Teacher: Toni Mouton
Providence H.S., Charlotte, NC
Student: Katlin Barnes
Glory , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Marva Hambacher
Ramaz High School, New York , NY
Student: Andrew Mehl
An Interview With Film Maker Marc Levin
, Journalism
Teacher: Steven Milowtiz Thomas Kuck
Red Land High School, Lewisberry, PA
Student: Gary Doran
Just Another Day , Short Short Story
Teacher: Bernita Nye
Rippowam Cisqua School, Bedford, NY
Student: Henry Gabriel
Escape from the Sealab , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Cathy Greenwood
Student: Sandy Mattei
My Family Extravaganza , Humor
Teacher: Cathy Greenwood
Student: Aune Mitchell
The Land of Lost Socks , Humor
Teacher: Cathy Greenwood
Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy (MS/HS 141), Bronx, NY
Student: Taina Vasquez
Sunset Beach , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Student Dreamyard and Charles Stahl
Rogers CAPA Middle School, Pittsburgh, PA
Student: Eric Johnson
No Way Out , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Lynn Marsico
Ross S. Sterling High School, Baytown, TX
Student: Alexander Adley
A Closed Minded Answer to Originality ,
Humor
Teacher: Emily Thompson
Student: Tehniya Wadhwani
Blue November , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Carinn Sprecher-Reinke
Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY
Student: Natalie Bergner
The Belly of Stained Glass , Short
Short Story
Teacher: Ruth Chapman
Student: Alex Connolly
Hey, Could I Have Some? , Humor
Teacher: Jane Avrich
Saint Joseph Catholic High School, Ogden, UT
Student: Chris Philpot
White House, Blue Trim , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Josh LeRoy
Saint Joseph's of Yorkville, New York , NY
Student: Margaret Locker
Fig Cakes , Short Short Story
Teacher: Celia Carlos
Student: Margaret Locker
Fig Cakes , Short Short Story
Teacher: Celia Carlos
School For Advanced Studies/South (Kendall Campus), Miami, FL
Student: Stephanie Maestre
Mi Gente , Poetry
Teacher: Belkis Cabrera
School for the Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Student: Justine Cefalu
Snow Prayer , Short Short Story
Teacher: Joy Fowler
Student: Avery Smith
A True Queen's Justice , Short Short
Story
Teacher: Joy Fowler
Seven Sorrows Of The BVM, Diocese of Harrisburg, Middletown, PA
Student: Zack Serch
A New Mourning , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Dana Kinsey
Shippensburg Senior High School, Shippensburg, PA
Student: Blake Clawson
The Pale Fighter , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: G. Bazner
Shorewood High School, Shoreline, WA
Student: Selena Maisonpierre
Jana, Swahili for Heaven , Short Story
Teacher: Barbara Lachman
Siren Jr./Sr. High School, Siren, WI
Student: Jacob Stiemann
Earthworms: Friends or Enemies of the Soil
, Journalism
Teacher: Jodi McLain Richards
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, Greenville, SC
Student: Briana Severson
The Barbieepiphany , Humor
Teacher: Scott Gould
Student: Kemper Wray
Letters to My Mother , Personal Essay
Memoir
Teacher: Scott Gould
St. Catherine Laboure, Diocese of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
Student: Christopher Sporik
Procrastination , Short Short Story
Teacher: Sara Robinson
St. George Elementary, Bourbonnais, IL
Student: Brandon Reyes
The Robot Rebellion , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Helen Herbst
St. John's School, Houston, TX
Student: Sofia Frommer
Baby Hamster Surprise , Humor
Teacher: Sharon Fabriz
St. Mary's Academy, Portland, OR
Student: Anne Walla
He Who Waits , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Sara Salvi
St. Paschal Baylon School, Highland Heights, OH
Student: Stephanie Yu
Magic in the Stars , Short Story
Teacher: Mary Connors
Stevenson Middle School , Carmel, CA
Student: Lily Montasser
S.O.S. , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Cindy Gates
Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY
Student: Jane D'Ambrosia
Conversation , Poetry
Teacher: Jonathon Weil
Student: Adria Giattino
Of Love and Saints; 6:50am; To Whom It
May Concern , Poetry
Teacher: Jonathon Weil
Student: Soo Young Lim
Hotel Asbury; Going Colorblind; Swan Song;
Incision , Poetry
Teacher: Emily Moore
Susquehanna Township HS, Harrisburg, PA
Student: Elizabeth Ellis
Dinner Time , Short Short Story
Teacher: Susan Shill
Student: Ben Henig
The True Claims to Jerusalem , Journalism
Teacher: Peter Frengel
T.R.U.C.E. The Renaissance University for Community Education, New York, NY
Student: Janine Simon
Purpose; Seek Adamant Affection; What If
, Poetry
Teacher: David Sutcliffe
Tampa Preparatory School, Tampa, FL
Student: William Rains
Jacques Au Jambon , Humor
Teacher: Stephanie Cardillo
Student: Rebecca Thomson
Global Warming Causes More Intense Hurricane
Activity, OR DOES IT? , Journalism
Teacher: Annelise Trubelhorn
Tenakill Middle School, Closter, NJ
Student: William Bauer
The White Manna Experience , Journalism
Teacher: Lois Bogosian
Student: Andrew Dyer
A Warrior Among the Gods , Science
Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Lois Bogosian
Student: Ryan Kim
The Path Redeemed , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Lois Bogosian
Student: Christopher Lee
The Littlest Man , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Lois Bogosian
Student: Diana Park
Swirls of Color , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Lois Bogosian
Student: Jennifer Shin
The Dating Game , Dramatic Script
Teacher: Lois Bogosian
Student: Daniel Won
Athletes' Salaries are Justified ,
Journalism
Teacher: Lois Bogosian
The American Academy, Bryn Mawr, PA
Student: Samuel Anthony
The Trojan Mouse , Humor
Teacher: Sharon Traver
Student: Carter Skeel
If's in Baseball (Parody) , Humor
Teacher: Sharon Traver
The Baccalaureate School for Global Education, Astoria, NY
Student: Kari Lindberg
Hate , Poetry
Teacher: Niki Singh
The Charter School of Wilmington, Wilmington, DE
Student: Alexandra Watson
Atomic Bomb; Drain; Isolation; Meditation;
sirens; Something to Remember; Tile with Footprints , Poetry
Teacher: Suzanna Rescigna
The Computer School, New York, NY
Student: Katie Adrian
Love Conquers All , Short Short Story
Teacher: Pamela Seuling
The Harker School, San Jose, CA
Student: Lucille Hu
The Experiment , Short Story
Teacher: Cheryl Cavanaugh
The Latin School of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Student: Benjamin Firke
The Battle of Yalesville , Dramatic
Script
Teacher: Tim Cronister
The Lovett School, Atlanta, GA
Student: Benjamin Laur
Forest; Oak Tree; Tiger; Seashore ,
Poetry
The Lovett School, Atlanta, GA
The Legend of Solonac , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Patricia Costen
The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Student: Michael O'Brien
Letter to the Catholic Church on Palm Sunday
, Poetry
Teacher: Mara Cregan
Student: Duncan Richer
77D , Poetry
Teacher: Mara Cregan
Student: Liam Swanson
An Afternoon in Pergamum; Turkey: An Evening
in Ruins of Pergamum , Poetry
Teacher: Mara Cregan
The Taft School, Watertown, CT
Student: Edward (Teddy) Dwyer
The Wrath of God , Journalism
Teacher: Kenneth Curzi
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, Alexandria, VA
Student: Kathleen Ferraren
What is Beauty? , Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Jennifer Seavey
Trinity School, New York, NY
Student: Akio Bandle
The Hidden Taboo of Japan , Journalism
Teacher: Saul Isaacson
Student: Mary Elizabeth Gilbert
What Politicians Don't See, Fireworks,
etc. , Poetry
Teacher: Mary DiLucia
University Ligget School, Grosse Pointe Woods , MI
Student: Barry Johnson
Trapped , Science Fiction/Fantasy
Teacher: Christine Reif
Villa Madonna Academy, Villa Hills, KY
Student: Andrew Flach
Champions of Nature, Retribution of the
Innocent , Poetry
Teacher: Janet Mitchell
Village Bible Academy, Garden Grove, CA
Student: Amanda Rountree
, Journalism
Teacher: Nila Osline-Rountree
Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA
Student: Zoe Mason
Empty Breakfast , Short Story
Teacher: Daniel Bosch
Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
Student: Patrick van Nieuwenhuizen
The Strength of Indifference , Short
Short Story
Teacher: Faith Krinsky
Watchung Hills Regional High School, Warren, NJ
Student: Catherine Ha
From the Underbrush , Poetry
Teacher: Susan Horn
Weinbaum Yeshiva High School, Boca Raton, FL
Student: Alexa Bryn
The Woman I Know Now: A Life in Six Photographs
, Personal Essay Memoir
Teacher: Carla Greer
West High School, Iowa City, IA
Student: Nadia Hlebowitsh
Violoncello; Apogee at Toadstool Graveyard
Sonnet; The Chore of Christmas , Poetry
Teacher: Kathryn Jacobson
West Perry High School, Elliottsburg, PA
Student: Ellen Clymer
Home , Short Short Story
Teacher: Nick Basttiste
Westchester Academy, Houston, TX
Student: Mariame Aana
Digging Disappointment , Short Short
Story
Teacher: Sandra Harvey
Westerville South High School, Westerville, OH
Student: Claire Gainer
Remaining Days , Short Story
Teacher: Michele Fuchs
Westfield High School, Houston, TX
Student: Stephanie Spoleti
Dream On , Dramatic Script
Teacher: LuAnn Underwood
Wheatcroft Academy Home School, Stewartsville, NJ
Student: Thornton Blease
Spruce's Revelation , Short Short Story
Teacher: Valerie Blease
William Alexander Middle School 51, Brooklyn, NY
Student: Rebecca Morofsky