About Our Annual Publishing Contest
This year, the iWRITE Nonprofit Organization offered students in the 3rd-12th grades the opportunity to submit short stories, poetry, and artwork to our annual publishing contest called, I Write Short Stories by Kids for Kids.
We are thrilled to announce our 125 newly published authors and illustrators for the 2024 contest in the 15th volume of our anthology. Scroll down to find the full list of our winners from across the globe.
Volume 15
Thank you to our sponsor, H-E-B for supporting our publishing contest program.
Cover Art Winners
Front Cover Artist
Shaivi Moparthi
Back Cover Artists
Zoe Brounes
Hannah Chen
Journey Clayton
Rachel Kazadevich
Poetry Winners
Alnimr, Rama – Unicorns
Andrea, Mia – Enchanted Escapades
Asthana, Anant – Collegiate Fantasy
Asthana, Advika – Fantasy Realm
Cho, Clara – Siren
Cooper, Isabel – Detached from Reality
Dolgner, Andrew – A Wizard’s Work
Egan, Ellie – King Arthur the Fallen
Fargason, Kathryn – Phoenix Rebirth (Pantoum)
Frias, Jorge – Dreamscape
Gomez, Gideon – The Jewel
Hickok, Harrison – The Dragon in My Dream
Ishaque, Sadia– The Fantastical Creatures of the Fantasy World
Khan, Ammar – Brave Little Boy
Le, Milan – Blobfish
Lingle, Lee – The Dragon that Haunts Us
Ma, Kristen – Under the Guise of Wrath
McKeon, Allison – Moon Dances
Misra, Aashka – Vicious Dreams
Nguyen, Anna – Under the Moon
Occhuizzo, Mara – Mirror Perspective
Ortega, Joseph – The Magical Game
Padala, Tanvi – A Magical Odyssey to Find My Paradise
Patel, Misha – The Mysterious Maiden
Petree, Isabella – Another World in Ours
Pierre, Kenzynton – Midnight Snack
Plemel, Brayden – That Cat
Pliskin, Riana Farrah – Once Upon a Time
Qamar, Nabiha – Fantasy’s Shook
Reyes, Madelyn – Dragon
Roy, Anika – An Unlikely Pair: The Dragon & The Dove
Saleh, Fatima – A Flight for Life
Salman, Maryam – Mystical Creatures from the Wizarding World
Sanchez-Shields, Elmer – The Magical Gugucito
Savage, Sarah – Obscure Life
Scott, Zoey – Unicorn
Segovia, Xanity – A Vacant Soul and Blinded Eye: The Living Are Dead
Serna, Sebastian – Hide from the Hyde
Sheikh, Halima – The Basilisk
Shen, Stephanie – He Falls
Sheth, Aanshi – Fairy Magic
Shetty, Nia – Whispers of Hope
Sultan, Amina – Mystique the Dragon
Syed, Sidrah – Lost
Thomas, Liam – Souls
Thomasson, Prudence – London the Dragon
Tiwari, Alexander – The Dragon’s Flight
Tiwari, Anaya – The Power of Stories: A World of Magic and Regret
Tudor, Oliver – The Magical Disappearance
Uehara, Abigail – Hidden Under the Moon’s Embrace
Villafano, Brayden – Invisible
Vondersaar, Addison – Transcendent
Wong, Avery – Beyond the Fairy Tales: Honoring Our Unsung Heroes
Yarbrough, Ashlyn – Daydreaming on the Reverie Express
Yu, Sophie – Pixelation
Zhang, Melody – Reverie