We received hundreds of submissions, and the Teen Writing Contest Committee is pleased to announce the following prizes, honors, and selections for the 2022 Teen Writing Contest & Ned Vizzini Teen Writing Prize. Congrats to our winners and many thanks to our staff readers and judges.
Poetry
Middle School
- First Place: Pigeons by Maya Cohen
- Second Place: Where I’m From by Lilla Burke
- Honorable Mention: On Riding the Subway by Oren Milgrom-Dorfman
- Honorable Mention: The World of My Mind by Hannah Powell
- Honorable Mention: Broadway by Frank Raso
High School
- First Place: The Laundress by Victoria Yang
- Second Place: An A+in Black Excellence by Sanai Rashid
- Honorable Mention: Sunset by Iago Macknik-Conde
- Honorable Mention: Mother by Britney Phan
- Honorable Mention: For a Cold Man by Mia Taubenblat
- Honorable Mention: Icarus by Elaine Yu
Prose
Middle School
- First Place: Luna By Shoshana Seigel
- Second Place: Live by Gillian Coppola
- Honorable Mention: The Sound by Benjamin Gurvich
- Honorable Mention: Sexual Harassment: The Reality for Teenager Girls by Rachel Uh
- Honorable Mention: Thrown Away by Angel Huang
High School
- First Place: The Armchair, the Cat, and Edward Fellington by Sophia Medina
- Second Place: hermit crab by Eleanor Bolas
- Honorable Mention: BFFs by Phoebe Levitsky
- Honorable Mention: Puffers of the Concrete Jungle by Sanai Rashid
- Honorable Mention: In the Silence by Adelle Xiao
The following additional selections from our Finalists will also be published in our Teen Writing Journal:
Poetry
Middle School
- Why Should I by Seb Cheung
- day 255 by by Sophie Ge
- My Sweet, Little Jerry by Rhoxlie Marron
- Not by Phoebe Zhu
High School
- Glossary: Places I've Lived by Cora LeCates
- countdown by Asha Mody
- The Circle of Life by Aliza Perl
- Just Blue <3 by Denise Sanchez Silva
- Hope: What is it? by William Tang
Prose
Middle School
- A Dandelion’s Misfortune by Kaya Parikh
- Reasons to Become an Insomniac by Gloria He
High School
- Snapchat Eulogy by Clio Barrett
- Street Creature by Isabelle Duperval
- Rope by Desmond Loo
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