About Our Annual Publishing Contest
The iWRITE Nonprofit Organization offers 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 100 newly published authors and illustrators for the 2020 contest in the 11th volume of our anthology. Scroll down to find the full list of our winners from across the globe.
Volume 11
Thank you to our sponsor, H-E-B for supporting our publishing contest program.
Cover Art Winners
Front Cover Artist
Lucas Garza
Back Cover Artists
Dylan Abrams
Alex Aronson
Alex Berman
Benjamin Berzin
YueRan He
Laurel Kaufman
Short Stories Winners
Adame, Evelyn – Agent 301 Cygnus Algol
Adame, Janie – My Trip To Mars
An, Shine – Nirvana of The Earth
Barefield, Jayde – The Dogs of Hope
Benson, Colten – Humanity’s Last Stand
Benson, Rhyslan – Jack and the Magic Flying Pumpkin Saucer – A Fractured Fairytale
Chiu, Laina – The Kifox
Cook, Wm. Patrick –The Spacedemic
Czelusta, Sophie – The Planet On Which We Live
Davies, Clara – The Daisy Rescue
Famurewa, Fife – The Earth and I
Feng, Trini – A Star-Studded Night
Gokul, Sahana – The Shift: The Experience of the Stars
Green, A’Myracle – Lilly’s Monsters
Jacobson, Emma – Trapped
Jiang, Chengjun – Coexistence
John, Jasmine – Worlds Collide
Karia, Savera – Hope
Kauffman, Kurt – Into The Stars
Kuzhiyil, Fiza – Letters to the Stars
Lopez, Austin – The Reds
Lundy, Kaitlyn – Arizona’s Trip to Neptune
McCall, Zora – Like Any Other
McDowell, Warner – The Prize
McIver, Kirby – Tracking My Dreams
Mejia, Jose – Unknown Route
Natarajan, Mahika – A Nuevo Beginning
Nicolae, Adela – A Second COVID (Mars Edition)
Papadakis, Arianna – Friends from Across The Multiverse
Pu, Amanda – The Adventure in Space
Pyne, Camille – Traitor
Raymond, Lyndon – Saving Space
Rubio, Mariana – The Stolen Egg
Schway, Poem – Proxima
Shetty, Nia – The Unexpected Space Hunt
Shull, Avarie – A Space Presentation
Slack, Sydney – From Pluto to Earth
Snyder, Abby – In Two Hundred Years
Swanson, Caroline – Uninvited Guests
Thompson, Sierra – Project: EARTH
Truong, Isabella – In Pursuit of Stardust
Varela, Natalia – Aliena Saves the Day
Wei, Yutong – The Last Tasmanian Wolf
Williams, Drayden – Keeping the Beat in Outer Space
Yan, Erya – You’re Only Going to Kill a Young Heart
Yen, Emily – Pass It On
Yijie, Liu – Different Identities in One World
Zhang, Alex – The Outsiders
Poetry Winners
Ammanath, Ayana – Joy of Rain
Andrea, Mia – Hope Instead
Bajwa, Sofia – Conquistador
Barsan, Amadea – Infinite
Batts, Dashiel – I Wonder
Benson, Finnley – Growing Up
Brewer, Emory – Where All of the Single Socks Gather
Burba, Madison – Look Up
Dunbarger, Colton – Galaxy
Dwarakanath, Malavika – Rain…
Fahmidah, Usraat – The Cosmic Orchestra
Filippone, Ginny – Martin Luther King, Jr.
George, Meghan – Vivid Universe
Giveon, Grace – Our World
Giveon, Katie – Starry Sky
Grammer, Chloe – Sun’s Fire
Gupta, Sejal – Simplest Grandeur
Hanson, Leo – Only the Stars
Hough, Charlie – The Solitude of Space
Jeong, Kate-Yeonjae – We Are Stars
Jeong, Matthew (Seungho) – Heavenly Eyes
Johnson, Christovia – My Thoughts
Jones, Annie – Rainboots
Jordan, Juliana – Starscape Healer
Kaushik, Sai – In Between
Kirby, Carter – Don’t Throw It Away
Li, Yutia – Stars
Lighvani, Sophie – Song of the Starlight
Mafrige, Halliday – The Dark Side of the Moon
Malone, Grace – Exploring The Universe
Mani, Eshaan – Feelings Transcending Words
Mitchell, Jaley – Sunset Rebel
Pemmaraju, Saleela – Midnight Galaxies
Rosca-Halmagean, Zachary – Us + They = Grey
Salazar, Julian – The Virus That Took Over the Earth
Sanders, Lauren – The Truth Of The Stars
Shah, Sanjana – The Stargazer Call
Shetty, Nia – Joy and Me
Shivani, Prisha – The Spaces Between
Smith, Antonio Silva – The Galaxy
Spalding, Sarah – Shine On
Suresh, Suveena – And My Name Is
Vu, Alexis – What I See Through My Telescope
Whitman, Chase – Saturn
Yu, Sophie – My Outer Space
Zhang, Katherine – Into the Deep
Zhong, Angela – Celestial Closeup