Past YouthWrites Contest Winners

More than 1500 students entered the 2009 YouthWrites contest. The overall winner was Alyson Kissner, a grade 11 student from West Vancouver Secondary School. Read the winning submission, The City. At the beginning of a class period, students were given the following words: compost, Skytrain, Facebook, sob, what if, labyrinth. They had to write any form of prose, poetry, short story, screenplay etc. within the class period, using all those words.

Grade 8: The Internet by Rose Gallo

Grade 9 (tie): by Erik Jacobson

Grade 9 (tie): by Liam Lawrence

Grade 10: Listen by Kathy Wang

Grade 12: Flight by Lincoln Welsh

2009 YouthWrites winner Alyson Kissner with authors Susin Nielsen, Don Calame and Robyn Harding. Photo: Chris Cameron