2008 "It's All Write!" Short Story Contest
Click on the titles below to read the stories or get the entire 2008 "It's All Write!" Book.
Middle School Winners:
| 1st | Mari Cohen | "Purple" | Text-Only Version | |
| 2nd | Lydia L. Brown | "Bittersweet" | Text-Only Version | |
| 3rd | Caroline Elliott | "Notes of Amadeus" | Text-Only Version |
High School 9th/10th Grade Winners:
| 1st | Regina Rose Kazanjian | "Loways and Highways" | Text-Only Version | |
| 2nd | Lindsay Fischer | "Everything is Connected" | Text-Only Version | |
| 3rd | Sussy Pan | "Breaking the Birthday Curse" |
High School 11th/12th Grade Winners:
| 1st | Eva Colás | "Searching" | Text-Only Version | |
| 2nd | Lindsey Maxon | "Networking" | ||
| 3rd | Josh Ballard | "Premonitions of a Janitor" | Text-Only Version |
2008 finalists in the three grade categories:
Middle School:
| Christina Bartson "Blind" Ann Huang "The Lake" Susan Lamoreaux "A Pet Fern" S.M. Lazarsfeld "Trading Queen" |
Mindze E.C. Mbala-Nkanga "The Wardrobe" Natalie Nagpal "The Draakan Trilogy: Vioris" Sarah Starman "A Black and White Memory" Eugene Zen "The Chocolate Covered Fiasco" |
High School 9th/10th Grade:
| Yazen Alshunnar "The Wall" Gabrielle Blakemore "Only as You Make Them" Kate Brown "Traveling" Stephanie Chueh "The Strange Disappearance of Alonzo Montgomery" Carlina Duan "Steps" |
Jakob Hildebrandt "St.Joe" Katelyn Horning "Why Would it be Murder???" Noah Kaczor "Churchill" Sandra Periord "A Date with Disaster" Hehui Quan "The Fortuitous Day of David Virens" Stephanie Steele "Surfing Tournament" |
High School 11th/12th Grade:
| Emily Brown "Boredom Can Be Dangerous" Isabella Decker "Available May Through October" Elinor Epperson "Cats With Bright Orange Homes" Kerry Flannagan "Dr. Sherman and the Quahog" Harper Jocque "We Who Stand and Speak of Culture" Dmitri Kapousta "Self-Made Prophet" Jen Pittman "Model" |
Rebecca E. Punch "Chiaroscuro" Noam Samuel "Day of Atonement" Kaylie Schaufele "To The Next Step" Matt Sherry "Your Friendly Neighborhood Extortionist" Nathan Shumway "Fantasy and Fire" Julia Tang "Under the Weather" Raymond P. Viviano "The Contrast" |