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 2026 contest in the 17th volume of our anthology. Scroll down to find the full list of our winners from across the globe.
Volume 17
Thank you to our Publishing Contest Sponsor
Publishing Contest Winners
Front Cover Artist
Shiloh David – Wild Hair, Bright Mind
Back Cover Artists
Aaryahi Chandrayan – Einstein: From Ordinary to Extraordinary
Zaina Kayani – Sally is My Outstanding Star
Emmanuel Sierra – NAUT
Editor’s Choice Winners
SHORT STORY: Viha Bapat – Liberty
POETRY: Avery Wong – The Girl Who Wrote Against the World
Star Authors – Short Stories
Jack Bogle – The Day I Got to Run the Trolley
Liam Beebe – Spreading Kindness With Jim Henson
Rokaya Hassan – The Seat That Changed the World
Anay Virk – Diana: Princess of Wales
Ibrahim Yacoub – Malala’s Courage
Adotro Amresh – Madame Curie: A Childhood in Vignettes
Star Authors – Poetry
Alexander Tiwari – More Than a Game: The Legacy of Jackie Robinson
Aya Amir – Reaching for the Moon
Kathryn Fargason – A Friend on Tape
Tanvi Padala – Connected by a Dream
Rhea Roy – forget and forget and forget
Nia Shetty – The Making of a Hero
Poetry Winners
- Elina Abedrabo – Eagle’s Flight, Mother’s Might
- Mishka Agarwal – Frida Kahlo
- Aria Allen – We, the Ordinary, Will Change the World
- Valentina Almendarez – More Than a Game
- Aya Amir – Reaching for the Moon
- Wania Atif – The Princess Diana
- Arianna Baran – Mother of Chimps
- Ditipriya Basu – More Than Dolls
- Yasna Besedina – A Single Voice
- Nellie Bishay – Anne Frank’s Window
- Andrew Bujarski – The Great Da Vinci
- Easton Bujarski – Walt Disney
- Ben Cabuncal – A Crazy World
- Noah Chan – Champion
- Aron Hurtado Charupa – The Man Who Never Bowed His Head
- Xin-Yang Saoirse Chen – An Influencing Dream
- Aleena Chowdhry – Sally Ride!!
- Farris Dali – Neil Armstrong
- Andrew Dolgne – Harriet Tubman
- Lauren C. Doss – Music of the Brush
- Emiliano Elizondo – Roosevelt: The Rough Rider’s Rise
- Kathryn Fargason – A Friend on Tape
- Kellen Folly-Kossi – I Am Muhhamad Ali
- Gideon Gomez – Albert
- Aksel Güler – Muhammad Ali
- Harry Hickok – Jesse Owens
- Layla Hirsch – Mind
- Archer Hogsten – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Abdullah Hussain – Leonardo da Vinci
- Aubrie E. Jaeger – Breaking Barriers
- David Kessler – Anne Frank
- Sania Khan – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Kayvon Khorasani – Albert Einstein
- Emory Klam – She Will – A Poem dedicated to Malala Youzfzai
- Vivaan Mahida – The First to Step on The Moon
- Mattia Maldonaldo – Leonardo da Vinci
- Madeline Male – Simone Biles
- Hutch Massner – Jackie Robinson
- Miles Morshedi – Helen Keller
- Omar Mumtaz – The Wright Brothers
- Tanvi Padala – Connected by a Dream
- Misha Patel – The Woman Who Followed the North Star
- Ashar Post – Before the Boot
- Austin Putt – Amelia Earhart
- Joaquin Putt – Martin Luther King Jr.
- Evan Radwanski – Albert Einstein
- Sawyer Rehrer – Sacagawea
- Lizzy Rigamer – One Wrong Move – Harriet Tubman
- Emerson Riles – Learning to Sail My Ship
- Anika Roy – The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
- Rhea Roy – forget and forget and forget
- Noor Samani – Batman
- Joseph Sauceda – Neil Armstrong
- Yusuf Shaheen – Muhammed Ali: The Story of a Legend
- Tobias Shakiba – Benjamin Franklin
- Nia Shetty – The Making of a Hero
- Rayyan Shoaib – Einstein
- Tommy Stamp – The Man That Changed It All
- Heba Syed – Anne Frank
- Alexander Tiwari – More Than a Game
- Anaya Tiwari – True Perseverance
- Allisha Tiwary – Leonardo da Vinci
- Aryan Tiwary – Mahatma Gandhi: Savior for Indians
- Saathvik Valvekar – still wet
- Avery Wong – The Girl Who Wrote Against the World
- Elly Wong – The Master of Vinci
- Zoe Wong – To Malala, Who Changed the World
- Jenny Wu – Unsweetened Harvest
- Jacob Zhou – Commander in Chief
- Catherine Zinn – The Power of a Story
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