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Gold Key Award:
Ariana Blaustein - Short Story The Unfinished Painting
Thomas Freund - Short Story A Deer in the Road
Grant Gordon - Flash Fiction Making It Work
Juwan Jackson - Poetry The Endless Quest for Perfection
Ayla Jeddy - Poetry Dreamer
Lauren Kim - Short Story The World Beneath Her Closed Eyes
Alexandra Lehman – Personal Essay/Memoir Let's Go, Polly!
Ezra Shin - Critical Essay The Wide Stature of Slim
Eeshan Tripathii - Personal Essay/Memoir Japan of my Memories versus Reality
Uttkarshni (vini) Tripathii - Poetry High School Journey: An Ode to Procrastination
Uttkarshni (vini) Tripathii - Poetry High School Trapped
Uttkarshni (vini) Tripathii - Poetry High School Quantum Spark
Bryson Wiese - Critical Essay The Third Revolution: Hong Kong and the Future of China
Bryson Weiss - Personal Essay/Memoir Empowered by Burden
Jasmine Young - Short Story The Same End

Silver Key Award:
Erin Acosta - Short Story Courage
William Barkoff - Poetry Fear
Catherine Cooney - Poetry Learning to be Alive
Angie Cui - Poetry dissection of a late autumn evening, amnesia, rendezvous
Aria Dasbach - Poetry Memorabilia
Gwendolyn Donahue - Flash Fiction Hurricane Hope
Gwendolyn Donahue - Poetry A Night Without Light
Billie Fabrikant - Short Story So Help Me God
Katherine Franco - Poetry Aubergine Haze, Thursday Evening
Lauren Franco - Short Story A Stylish Miss
Juwan Jackson - Short Story Night of the Things
Ayla Jeddy - Personal Essay/Memoir Seen and Unforeseen
Leyla Kramarsky - Short Story Igniting Aram
Alexandra Min - Short Story The Responsibility
Samantha Pohly - Flash Fiction Frances Harvey's To-Do List
Lauren Reischer - Poetry X-Ray Vision by Lauren Reischer
Eliza Rubin - Short Story Missing Mae
Atessa Savitt - Personal Essay/Memoir Kate's Vineyard
Clare Steinman - Poetry Mud Season, Homecoming
Nicole Stern - Poetry Train (inspired by the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime)
Kaelin Suh - Short Story 20 Minutes in the Waiting Room
Uttkarshni (vini) Tripathii - Poetry A Strange Infatuation
Joshua White-Jamison - Poetry The Wise Man
Bryson Wiese - Journalism India at a Turning Point: Observations during an Election Year
Kai Williams - Short Story Baby
Gabriel Wong - Poetry Ode to an Ozymandias
Jane Young - Poetry Walking Away
Jane Young - Poetry Clean
Jane Young - Flash Fiction A Happy Life

Honorable Mention:
Grace Abrahams - Short Story The Escape Plan
Lucy Ackman - Poetry Two Kinds
Catherine Cooney - Poetry Self Portrait
Angie Cui - Poetry The Six Train
Angie Cui - Poetry Two Spades
Georgia Davis - Short Story The Blue Moon
Jonah Eick - Poetry Anomaly
Jonah Eick - Poetry What They Sang
Mia Freund - Personal Essay/Memoir Segue to the Past
Mia Freund - Short Story An Ivory-Handled Revolver
Ayla Jeddy - Poetry Revelation
Samantha Konigsberg - Personal Essay/Memoir If Only It Were A Dream
James Kuntz - Short Story What Happened in Sanaa
James Kuntz - Short Story What Happened in Sanaa
Frances Lindemann - Short Story Things We Wish We Were
Rani Shah - Flash Fiction Bicycles and Wildflowers
Md Abid Sikder - Short Story Sewer Rat
Nicole Stern - Personal Essay/Memoir Perfect Balance Between Silence
And Sound
Nicole Stern - Poetry I'm That Girl
Nicole Stern - Short Story A Heart With Two Chains
Theodore Strauss - Flash Fiction The Cage That I Am In
Uttkarshni (vini) Tripathii - Poetry Ink Splattered on Glass
Uttkarshni (vini) Tripathii - Poetry Uncelebrated Samurais of
Fukushima
Sean Yang - Critical Essay Leader of the Faithful
Jane Young - Flash Fiction Don't Come Home