We received hundreds of submissions, and the Teen Writing Contest Committee is pleased to announce the following prizes, honors, and selections for the 2020 Teen Writing Contest & Ned Vizzini Teen Writing Prize.
Poetry
Middle School
- First Place: Here’s To La Ciencia Emigrante by Iago Macknik-Conde
- Second Place: Blue Hands by Vaikuntha Tamayo
- Honorable Mention: Ode by Ihshan Jaman
- Honorable Mention: Basketball Game by Aidan Lebron
- Honorable Mention: All Might by Naomi Schulz
High School
- First Place: The Roach In My Bed by Thisbe Wu
- Second Place (Tie): What It's Like To Be Chinese American by Christina Li
- Second Place (Tie): Maslenitsa by Mary Lawrence Ware
- Honorable Mention: Fury of Astoria by Esther Bier
- Honorable Mention: Sign In by Cole Edwards
- Honorable Mention: Holy Water in a Salt Shaker by Alex Shesh
Prose
Middle School
- First Place: Untitled (Play) by Alyosha Vak
- Second Place: When You Don’t Have Training Wheels, Learn to Use the Brakes by Talia Beck
- Honorable Mention: The Traveling Book by Elena Chatzilias
- Honorable Mention: Pizza Reunion by Bijou Lwin
High School
- First Place: Pileup by Edie Lipsey
- Second Place: Boy with the Hole by L’hussen Touré
- Honorable Mention: This Is Everything That I Am by Jessica Jiang
- Honorable Mention: The Crown by Lily O'Donnell
- Honorable Mention: Fold by Mary Lawrence Ware
The following additional selections will also be published in our Teen Writing Journal:
Poetry
Middle School
- Art by Tasnim Ali
- Changes by Ashley Chunchi
- Two Great White Sharks by Matthew Jimenez
- My Name by Kara Leu-Edwards
- Quieter Now by Ivy Morris
- Why Don’t School Close by Nicole Zheng
High School
- Status Update by Renee Amos
- Everyone Will Know by Ana Castillo
- Banana by Sadie Lee
- Brooklyn Paranoia by Samson Malmoli
- Growth by Patricia Maziarz
- Asian American by Sandy Tan
Prose
Middle School
- The Secret by Sophie Landis
- Sunset Story by Naomi Schulz
- I Discovered 12 New Planets While Stargazing by Roman Wugalter
High School
- Chapter I - “El Gallinero” by Aroa Garcia Laughlin
- Untitled (ghost story) by Frances McKittrick
- What Now? by Esther Balaban
UPDATE: Additional prose selections from contest finalists were added to this post on April 30, 2020.
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