Congratulations to our our prize-winning student authors. Our judges have evaluated nearly 150 submissions and selected four place winners and two honorable mentions in each category, poetry and prose. Thanks to each and every student who participated. In this, the third year, the quality of submissions was better than ever. The evaluation process was difficult and nuanced; there were many, many worthy submissions.
Poetry
1st Place: Oluwatomi Ogundimu, “Sundance // opulence”
(Adlai E. Stevenson High School)
2nd Place: Emma Keating, “Beneath the Surface”
(Hinsdale Central)
3rd Place: Ashra Roshy, “know me, the ugly girl”
(Adlai E. Stevenson High School)
4th Place: Parker Koehler, “what the tea leaves tell us”
(Chicago High School for the Arts)
Poetry, Honorable Mentions (in no particular order)
Simon Archer III, “Blue Swallow of Hope”
(The Chicago Academy for the Arts)
Bodhi Haines, “Gumbo”
(Lane Tech High School)
Prose
1st Place: Ivy Faust Lefebvre, “Directions”
(Walter Payton College Prepatory High School)
2nd Place: Fiona Jin, “L’Hôpital’s Rule”
(Adlai E. Stevenson High School)
3rd Place: Lucinda De Maio, “Tail of a Frog”
(Walter Payton College Prepatory High School)
4th Place: Lucille Hachtel, “In the Modern World”
(Senn High School)
Prose, Honorable Mentions (in no particular order)
Aanya Santosh, “Everything Comes to Be”
(Adlai E. Stevenson High School)
Destiny Sacluti, “Rising from Setbacks”
(Trinity High School)