We received hundreds of submissions, and the Teen Writing Contest Committee is pleased to announce the following prizes, honors, and selections for the 2021 Teen Writing Contest & Ned Vizzini Teen Writing Prize.
Poetry
Middle School
- First Place: Where I’m From by Nwabude Anthony-Alexandre Ibeanu
- Second Place: One Thirteenth by Ivy Laidlaw-Morris
- Honorable Mention: Breezy B by Brian Babb
- Honorable Mention: Free (After S.E. Hinton) by Iago Macknik-Conde
- Honorable Mention: The Swamp by Tara Wong
High School
- First Place: Type Designer by Kai Giovanni
- Second Place: Class of 2013 and The Kitchen Floor by Sally Rogers
- Honorable Mention: Where I Am From by Nayeon Park
- Honorable Mention: love letter to s.t. by Chloe Shiffman
- Honorable Mention: Leather in Heaven by Grace Yu
Prose
Middle School
- First Place: What I Lost by Kai Moloney Seshan
- Second Place: Best Friends Forever by Charlotte Moore
- Honorable Mention: The Bubble by Sami Doyle
- Honorable Mention: Boys, Don’t Fight by Callum Hicks
- Honorable Mention: Maybe It’s Me by Petra Jawde
- Honorable Mention: Black Lives Matter by Kaysia Maddix
High School
- First Place: Mother Tongue by May Hathaway
- Second Place: Number 246 by Lauren Weisberg
- Honorable Mention: Debussy's Dwarf Planet by Gabriella Cariddo
- Honorable Mention: The Disappointed Observations and Thoughts of an Angry Black Girl by Stephanie Kacou
- Honorable Mention: The Fruit of Discord by Amelia Harrington
The following additional selections will also be published in our Teen Writing Journal (available in branches in Summer 2021):
Poetry
- Underground Balter by Lauren Cho (High School)
- Untitled (if I said I can’t breathe) by Noble Griffiths (Middle School)
- When the Rain Comes by Emmett Johnson (Middle School)
- As the Paint Dries by Sparrow McWatt (Middle School)
- What Is Black by Javier Moe (Middle School)
- Elegy to the Hood by Kayla Morgan (High School)
- Untitled (I will go simply) by Tess Nealon Raskin (High School)
- I Can’t Breathe by Mia Payne (High School)
- Sweet Sixteen by Sally Rogers (High School)
- The Autumn Storm Predicament by Nicole Shteynberg (Middle School)
- Seasons by Christopher Thayer (Middle School)
- The Wendigo Trap by Samuel Zinn (Middle School)
Prose
- Sizzle Into a Pandemic by Helen Chen (High School)
- Mexico: Defending My Country by Eric Gonzalez Cardona (High School)
- Deathwish by Quinn Kaliner (Middle School)
- 72 by Ada Liberson (Middle School)
- A Journey of Identity in the Hate U Give by Charlotte Moore (Middle School)
- Rego Park, as Seen by a Socially Distanced Teen by Maya Mukherjee (High School)
- The Price of Fame by Lily O’Donnell (High School)
- Banana Bread and Lemon Glaze by Nayeon Park (High School)
- The Red Envelope by Lauren Weisberg (High School)
Congrats to our winners and many thanks to our staff judges.
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