6th Grade
1st Calia Ann Lockey
Walnut Creek: Jann Taylor-Geyer
“Three Words, One Meaning”
2nd Katelyn Downing
Pleasant Hill: Holly Latz
“What Is This?”
3rd Megha Bhargava
Windemere Ranch: Diana Kaplenko
“The Adventures in Cave Swimming”
7th Grade
1st Alexandra Desmedt
Walnut Creek: Jana Palmquist
“Unsilent Night”
2nd Lauren Russell
Windemere Ranch : Jeff Osborn
“Ready, Set, SHOT!”
3rd Karina Ting
Orinda: Cecilia Kilmartin
“A Lesson to Last”
8th Grade
1st Mia Stripling
Stanley: Donna Gallagher
“Confidence”
2nd Ahab Chopra
Dorris-Eaton: Melissa Parker
“Biking to a New Life”
3rd Emma Cottrill
Dorris-Eaton: Melissa Parker
“The Night My Life Changed Forever”
Poetry
6th Grade
1st Sasha Hassan
Windemere Ranch: Diana Kaplenko
“Midnight Wish”
2nd Rashmi Pradhan
Windemere Ranch: Diana Kaplenko
“A Song is Drowned”
3rd Sihyun Na
Windemere Ranch: Diana Kaplenko
“What Does it Feel Like?”
7th Grade
1st Jasmine Steele
St. Isidore: Amy Burgin
“Storybook”
2nd Rebekah Mangels
Homeschool
“Who Knows What I Think?”
3rd William Francis
Martinez: Anne Martin
“A Day’s Work as a Dishonest Man”
8th Grade
1st Ahab Chopra
Dorris-Eaton: Deeni Shoenfeld
“You Will Never Find Me”
2nd Meher George
Dorris-Eaton: Melissa Parker
“Carpe Diem”
3rd Kismat Dhaliwal
Dorris-Eaton: Melissa Parker
“An Unlikely Savior”
Short Story
6th Grade
1st Aaron Ouyang
Dorris-Eaton: Mary Dickens
“Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle”
2nd Sasha Hassan
Windemere Ranch: Diana Kaplenko
“Search and Rescue”
3rd Sasha Hassan
Windemere Ranch: Diana Kaplenko
“What is Right is not Always Popular, What is Popular is not Always Right”
7th Grade
1st Lucy Caitlin Shaw
Walnut Creek: Jana Palmquist
“The Escape”
2nd Ingrid Lam
Pine Valley: Dianna Longhery
“My Eyes”
3rd Alexandra Desmedt
Walnut Creek: Jana Palmquist
“The Caterpillar and the Worm”
8th Grade
1st Lauren Hui
Gale Ranch: Kimberly Carter
“House of the Rose”
2nd Emily Hui
Pine Valley: Sarah Gibbons
“Blue Skies”
3rd Julie Deng
Pine Valley: Susan Banks
“It All Proves Nothing”