"Write On!" Short Story Contest for Grades 3-5: All Submissions 2016
Thank you to all of the writers who sent their stories to the 2016 "Write On!" Short Story Contest! All of the submitted stories are linked below. Please contact Kayla at youngwrite@aadl.org with contest questions.
Third Grade
Althea Decker, "The Football Game" Text-Only Version Lila Foster, "The TV Problem" Maddie Gaines, "Building an Adventure" Nicole Hartman, "How Annie Got Home" Jordan Igoe, "I Want a Dinosaur, Please!" Sawyer Johnson, "Up North" Lila Jomaa, "The Stowaway" | Raymond T. Kangas, Jr., "Benjamin Franklin 'In the Future!'" Text-Only Version Ashley Kim, "My New Best Friend" Arathi Kolangarth, "Three Mermaid Friends" Ayelet Lasser, "The Move" Ava Legier, "The Day She Really Wanted to Play Soccer and Get Electronics" Xzavion Martin, "The Ultimate Taco" |
Jessica Millina, "Making Friends" Text-Only Version Emma Morad, "Help Me Nikki" McKenzie Pepper, "Ava's Famous" Zack Straub, "If You Can Dream It You Can Do It" Melody Watkins, "Aundrea & Carrisa" Liana Zhou, "The Cotton Candy Land" |
Fourth Grade
Dyuthi Aryasomayajula, "The Haunted Tree" Text-Only Version Jaya Boggess, "The Glass Fairy" Ocean Brabbs, "Madden or Not" Sofia Castilla, "The Wishing Tree" Srinithya Chiravuri, "What Have I Brought Home" Yotam Chopra, "Through Time (A Time Travelling Story) Maya Comer, "A Free Hero" Cassie Couch, "Swish! Swish! Try to Catch Me!" Selene Freudenberg, "The Moon Greater Than Every Other" Anita Gaenko, "Bells" | Zachary Hamill, "The Adventures of the Gods" Text-Only Version Isabella Jacob, "Evil Academy" Gemma Kennedy, "Green Crayon" Neha Khanna, "One Magical Recipe" Evelyn Kidle, "Bye, Bye, Sunshine" Vanya Krishna, "Mixed Up" Minseo Lee, "To Be a Liar!" Anna Lucking, "The Campbell Family" Melinda Mei, "One Special Birthday" Gabriel Moore, "A Ninja Story" Stella Niemi, "Whimsical" | Sarah Osterholzer, "Willow and the Golden Dew Drop" Text-Only Version Rachel E. Perlman, "Elca Padme John" Avni Rao, "The Chronicles of Artichoke" Sydney Saenz, "The Trash Can" Kevin Mingxuan Song, "The Journey to the Sun" Madeline Tai, "Dear Diary" Q. Jamie Tang, "The Friends of Careless Mistakes" Teddy Tolbert, "The Quables" Svea von der Lieth, "Annabell and the Mission" Madison Winters, "Birthday Disaster" |
Fifth Grade
Anna Alexandra Alexandrov, "A Blurr" Jacob E. Andreski, "A Thousand Days of Light" Allison Ball, "The Tiger Warrior's Shadow" Leyna Bennett, "Trouble" Melanie Brooks, "The Story of Abby" Laney Burns, "Music in the Corner of the Earth" Sebastián Casillas-López, "The Golden Goal" Carolann Colbeck, "Clone Duck 0.1" Sydney Curtis, "Our Laughable Life" Zoe Scarlett Davies, "See-Through" Hannah Deng, "Out of the Blue" Andrew Dimcheff, "Earth Escaped" Eliot Dimcheff, "Marceline's Story" Alvin Dumas, "School News" Zaria Dumas, "The Special Book" Aspen Fields, "The Last Sunwealder" Elizabeth Ford, "Aware of Where I Am" Caroline Guenther, "Where Did John Holmes Go?" Gabriel Hill, "Habañeros that look like Jalapeños" | Rita Ionides, "The Magical Kingdom of Mathematica" Text-Only Version Saran Kaba, "Black" Jason Seungmin Kang, "The Tale of Bob the Dog" Brigit Keiter, "Egyptian Wolf" Jersey Kierczak, "The Last Journey" Sarah Kim, "Animal Fairy" Alex Kim, "Tally Ho!" Yetta Krummel-Adkins, "The Blizzard" Nicolas Langdon, "Sleuthed" Carmen Lauchu, "Fall Down, Stand Up" Catherine Li, "Lice" Fiona Lin, "Lemonade of Life" Ria McGuire Lowenschuss, "Finding Hope" Haruka Nabeshima, "Moonlight" Juliana Ramirez, "The Clara Puppet" Kira Shaffer, "Harry's Prank" Madeline Shaw, "Just Like You" | Bella Simonte, "Going for Gold" Text-Only Version Royce Smith, "The Ghost of Marci Elementary" Stella Son, "Black Cloud Wing" Meena Suresh, "The Life Changer" Haley Switzer, "The Locked Waterfall" Tim Teymurov, "The Lift" Ella Thorne, "The Settlers' Sickness" Ava Tunison, "Fifth Door on the Left" Alexa Webber, "The Forgotten" Samika Whitelocke, "The Book" Ella Woodruff, "Oliver's Art" Crystal Wu, "Tale of a Dragon" Jing Xie, "My Miserable Life" Jerry Yang, "Mars Mission" Dayeong Yoon, "The Mysterious Dream" Kendal Young, "Secrets" Alexander Zhang, "The Golden Pendant" Gabby Zywicki, "The Fal" |