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 150 newly published authors and illustrators for the 2025 contest in the 16th volume of our anthology. Scroll down to find the full list of our winners from across the globe.
Volume 16
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
Haniya Alam
Andrew Bujarski
Kaelyn Gonzales
Elmer Shields
Poetry Winners
Elina Abedrabo – My Hero in the Rubble
Carolynn Acosta-Mires – All About heroes
Ayooluwa Adekoya – Everyday Hero
Aria Allen – The City That She Loves
Kyle Amor – Antiheroes
Mia Andrea – She is My Hero
Luke Archer – The Rising Sun
Advika Asthana – My Diligent Superhero
Mirna Bahar – Difference Between Us
Nellie Bishay – Superheroes to the Rescue
Natalie Bishay – There’s a Hero Every Day
Elise Chapital – Recycling Heroes
Ephraim Chen – A Gentle Breeze
Clara Cho – The Guardian of the Dark
Nicolas Collins – Stop Destroying Me: A Superhero Saga Told by the City Caught in Crossfire
Colin Dadufalza – Quiet Hero
Aiyana David – Heroes Aren’t Ordinary
Clara Davies – Confrontation
Levi Davis – It Could Be You
Evelynn Deleon – Superheroes
Reece Ellis – Superhero Phenomenon
Kathryn Fargason – Falling Away
Ryan Garcia – Who are the true superheros
Jaylynn Gay – Heroism
Pablo Gonzalez – Under the Mask
Stella Hahm – Always by Our Sides, Maybe With a Glass of Milk
Addie Hartensteiner – Normandy
Rosie Heghinian – Woman of Steel
Yahya Hussein – Jim the Human Trollhunter
Cora Jaeger – The WASPs
Mandy Jordan – Not All Heros Wear Capes
Pierce Kelley – The Lost Hero
Leejay Kim – Doctors
Anne Larrabee – A Sidekick’s Lament
Malley Lutschg – Big and Small
Mason Ly – A Draft of Air
Madeline Male – Recipe To Make a Hero
Emma Mankarious – A Superhero’s Reality
Kirby McIver – A Superhero’s Cape
Dawson Moore – The Everyday Heroes
Christina Nguyen – The Nameless Hero Rises Within the Demonic Paradise
Benjamin Nguyen – To Save You
James Oelrich – My Favorite Topic Growing Up: Superheroes
Akin Folarin Oshe – Satoru Gojo
Tanvi Padala – The Heroes of the Battlefield
Giuliana Perez – My hero
Riana Pliskin – Superpowers
Madelyn Reyes – Partners
Brooke Robinson – Heroes & Superheros
Alaa Ahmed Romman – Infinity Girl
Sara Roy – Crash Diet
Unaisah Saeed – Heroes in the Classroom
Stephanie Shen – The Weight of Wings
Nia Shetty – My SuperHero
Naina Sivalingala – Heroes Hidden in Plain Sight
Sidrah Syed – What The Fire Left Behind
Sierra Thompson – The Boy’s Superheroes
Lauren Thompson – Addiction
Anaya Tiwari – The Ordinary Hero
Alexander Tiwari – The Superhero Aditya
Quoclan Tran – Ringing
Snigdha Udutha – In Me, Good Lives
Abigail Uehara – Perhaps We Can All Be Heros
Blanca Vilar-Iniesta – Real Heroes
Annabella Villarreal – My Hero
Haivyn Walker – Where’s My Superhero?
Daniel Whitehead – A Hero’s Death
Finn Whyte – Till They’re Gone
Avery Wong – Heroes Without Capes
Jenny Wu – Paper Heroes
Sophie Yu – Cornicello, 13
Sophie Zhang – I Wish to be a Hero
