Children’s Book:
1st Place - The Little Dot Right Where It Belonged by Sarah Pontes Dantas
Fable:
1st Place - Amongst the Sheep by Amelia Corbo
2nd Place - The Rule of Reliability by Brandon Bennett
3rd Place - The Blue Jay and the Belltower by Sebastiaan Volkenborn
Formal Essay:
1st Place - The Dirge Hidden in the Punchline by Daniel Chernyavsky
Informal Essay:
1st Place - Morality of Disobedience by Jonathan Schwartz
Honorable Mention - Success vs. Failure by Lucas Calderon
Myth:
1st Place - Sealing Dinosaurs by Yike Zhu
Personal Narrative:
1st Place - Fleeting Safety by Amelia Corbo
2nd Place - The Day I Learned to Rise by Isabella Torres
3rd Place - 4500 Miles Away by Max Belleh
Political/Satirical Cartoon:
1st Place - Unweave by Isabella Fierro Peralta
Scene Writing:
1st Place - The Willow Court by Daniel Chernyavsky
2nd Place - Ashes of the Forgotten by Gabriella Duman
Short Story:
1st Place - Mission Gone Wrong by Alexander Ngo
2nd Place - The Shadow Man by Avery Hope
3rd Place - Independence by Thalia Cedeno
Honorable Mention - Jaded Crown by Brielle Spease
Cinquain:
1st Place - Unspoken: A Secret by Charlie Fashny
Ekphrastic Poem:
1st Place - The Thriller Man by Antonia Fierro Peralta
Free Verse:
1st Place - Almost Burning by Levi Fleischer
2nd Place - The Boy Who Flew by Madeline Zhuravel
3rd Place - Dermatillomania by Anna Chetan
Honorable Mention - I Want Someone to Know Me by Francesca Zito
Haiku:
1st Place - Solitary Berlin by Eddy Rogers
2nd Place - The Seminole Heart by Aubrey Cypress
3rd Place - Emerald Mountains by Antonio Aristizabal
Honorable Mention - The Creek by Camila Doerffler
Ode:
1st Place - Ode to Loneliness by Madeline Zhuravel
2nd Place - An Ode to Circus Performers by Siyona Narang
Parody Poem:
1st Place - When the Sky Weeped the Night Before by Ellie Baez
2nd Place - A Nap within a Nap by Rachel Cohen
3rd Place - A Juan within a Horse by Mattias Lazzaro
Honorable Mention - A Hot Shower with Steam by Colin Camp
Poem for Two Voices:
1st Place - Her by Gabriela Greco Tibirica
2nd Place - Words and Codes by Lina Kim
Rhymed Verse:
1st Place - A Man and His Corvette by Joshua Reid
2nd Place - Conch Salad by Danica Simmons
3rd Place - A Moment of Silence by Arjun Ravi
Honorable Mention - Romeo? by Amanda Rodriguez
Sestina Poem:
1st Place - The Trailing Whispers by Viyana Bhagwanani
Villanelle:
1st Place - Inside the Pages by Anjali Patel
2nd Place - Love is the Flame by Noell Marrero
3rd Place - liminality by Mandy Wu
Honorable Mention - October by Lina Kim

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Emerald Mountains

Haiku by Antonio Aristizabal

Stacy Castro Abrego • May 7, 2026

Emerald mountains,

Coffee mist on morning air

Colombia breathes.

“Inconspicuous”
Photograph by Olivia Chung