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It's All Write - All Submissions 2016

496 submissions were accepted in the three grade categories - Middle School, Grades 9th/10th and Grades 11th/12th. The following are all the students and the work they submitted for this year's It's All Write Contest. The winning stories and finalists can be viewed here.

Eliza Berman
"The Gratifiers"
Kylie Miller
"The Truth of an individual"
Jake Bracha
"Wasteland"
Aris Chalin
"The Weariness of Life and Death"
Nina Shepherd
"The Mirage Boy "
Allyson (Pen Name): Red (Legal Name):Ifergan
"How I Almost Married My Dishwasher"
Laurel Schmidt
"The Mark"
Michelle Karls
"The Hero"
Samantha Pyo
"Unprecedented"
Kanishka Shah
"Once a Promise, Always A Promise"
Noah Johnson
"The Flight"
Salma Mohammad
"Silly Alice"
Emily Woodman
"Instincts"
Miguel Clement
"Escaped"
Alexis Greca
"Broken Wings"
Yetong Li
"Who Am I? "
Roslyn Staples
"My Biggest Score: a Thief Reminiscence"
Rosemary Waas
"The Girls in me"
Brianne Robertson
"Five Years Gone By"
Phoebe Bolz
"The Lost Girl"
Maxwell Westrum
"Awoken"
Kerry O'Donnell
"Renegade of the Songbirds - A Testimony in Four Parts"
Zoe Lubetkin
"To Desire The Sky"
Aliama Schaumann
"Change"
Leah Fleming
"Gaia's Wrath"
Sam Stroud
"What Remains"
Aliama Schaumann
"Change"
Ava Millman
"Visions With Trump"
Aya Alzuabi
"The Count"
Marlee Day
"A Little More Red"
Joshua Matsuura
"The Spirit in the Hat"
Raj Stevens
"Nicotine"
Cindy Kuang
"Hiraeth"
Hannah Kathryn Cohen
"Pitcher in the Rain"
Maddy Neuwald
"Forced to Kill"
Amy Skevington
"His Sister"
Peyton Cassel
"This Light of Mine"
India Thomas
"On Our Own"
Josh Peterson
"The Babysitter"
Diego Cisneros
""The Let Down""
Sydnie Mathews
"The Ministry "
Elizabeth Clow
"Prohibited Penmanship "
Jennifer Wiland
"Until It's Gone"
Julia Feder
"Step Away"
Lindsay Nootbaar
"So Called Wretched Appearance"
Aidan Afonso
"Mind Over Money"
Graeme Horton`
"A Slowed Campaign "
William Ferro
"The Fight For Freedom"
Britney Allen
"Dulce de Leche"
Tania Nunez
"Loving like Angels & Sinning like Devils"
Hollie Pastorino
"Crime Report"
Kylie Gil
"Precious Smiles"
Gabriella Quintero
"Corner Store Girl "
Prachi Kumari
"I Love You"
Isabel Perry
"I Don't Know What's Happening"
Nemo Neiburger
"Star Fighters"
Jenna Nguyen
"For Jess' Concern For Me"
Daniel Bennett
"Under the Sidewalk"
Olivia Blissick
"Snow"
Gavin LaHousse
"Ballpark"
Sophie Castro
"Hidden"
Olivia Lyle
"Wintervale"
Abby Judge
"The Order of Crowes"
Maggie Schmidt
"Mo Money, Mo Problems"
Rachel Goodin
"Schizophrenic Issues"
Esha Khanna
"What's Next?"
Will Hartman
"A Twist of the Watch"
Zoey Ruzic
"Devil in Wool"
Devon Carter
"Looking Up"
Andrew Plotner
"The Old Ones"
Max Mueggler
"Whispering"
Ilana Sabban
"Ungiven Closure "
Deniz Kirca
"My Father's Memories"
Allison Cowherd
"Princess and a General"
Shelby Williams
"Finding Civilization"
Tomas Calderon
"Nullset"
Kiara Finlinson
"Holding Back Tears "
Marlie Libs
"The Fatal Flaw"
Emma Thornton
"Over the Fence"
Ralfo Manzur
"Skyline"
Cammi Tirico
"Falling in Love with the 23rd"
Hailey Berrigan
"Mama Loves You"
Bridget Roberts
"Definitely"
Rory Haltmaier
"Of Grief and Water"
Christopher Read
"The Terrors"
Meera Gangasani
"The Girl in the Man's Hand"
Lauren Owens
"Excitatio in Terra "
William Polkowski
"Two-Sided "
Opefoluwa Sarah Adegbite
"Hampstead House"
Sunday Quillen
"Joanna"
Harry Lillford-Brighton
"Creature or Captain"
Julianna(YoungEun) Lee
"What A Broken Elevator Can Do To You"
Gabi Teodoru
"The Short Man Who Saved My Life"
Melanie Roman&
"Why, Strawberry Blonde?"
Madison Arroyo
"Where am I? "
Linda Yu
"How I Twisted a Tale"
Carmen Quinn
"Along For the Ride"
Xavier Fields
"A Second Chance"
Jessica Xu
"A Boy and A Girl"
Shayne Edson
"The Run "
Isabelle Lenhardt
"Goodbye Clementine "
Gabriel Churchill-Torres
"The Tree of Life"
Marissa Schram
"Don't Reject Me"
Chloe Kurihara
"Liar, Liar"
Trevor Jackson
"The Fall"
Samiyah Wheeler
"18 and older"
Lidewij Florusbosch
"The Silver Dragon"
Thomas Duda Cortes
"A License to Live"
Lia Bergin
"To Speak of Rose in Vain"
Nia Saxon
"Not A Savior"
Sophie Weber
"Secrets"
Julia Cianflone
"The Death"
Anna Sheeks
""Now You See Me""
Ruby Cole
"Future Trailer "
Noah Hogan
"A Ruse for a Reporter"
Henry Branch
"A Walk"
Loey Jones-Perpich
"From Me To You, Wherever You Are"
Julie Heng
"Those Broken Dreams"
Thomas Kerschbaum
"Dear Mr. Goodell..."
Mira-Rose Kingsbury Lee
"Semper Fidelis"
Ella Rumsey
"California Shoes of Fame"
Jalen Steudle
"The Cottage Killing "
Emma Chen
"Averted Accident"
Jasmine Xu
"The Dreamer"
Abigail Knechtel
"A Story from the Shoes"
Christopher Norrington
"The Time Traveling Knight"
Max Mueggler
"Whispering"
Makaila Cooper
"Circus Terror"
Teo Miklethun
"Rust"
Madison Gotts
"The Tragic Romance"
Lisette Gold
"Soulmates"
Patrick Reid Klein
"Life Death and Mountain Lions"
Alexander Davis
"Don't Slip"
Chioma Ilozor
"Where we belong"
Ethan Wright
"A Fragment of the Past"
Ruby Taylor
"Your eyes"
Josh Overbeek
"The World Hack"
Josh Boland
"Windy City FC"
Logan Deyarmond
"Of Pachyderms and Predators"
Barbara Polyntseva
"A Trip To Space"
Nikita Pavic
"Nine Fifteen "
Laura Edwards
"Hope"
Mateo Strickland
"The Mobster's Dollar"
Mia Henry-Fisher
"Poor Shannon"
Isma'ilia Ware
"Just Another Weak Human"
maddie albercook
"Now and Forever "
Olivia Li
"In Plain Sight"
Sonja Benjamins-Carey
"The Sun and the Skies"
Eva Roth
"Francesca"
isis gibson
"The threats from my phone."
Raegann Murdock
"Where Did She Go"
Michael Cherkasky
"Golden Arm"
Austin McDonald
"The Unlikely Team"
Summer Quinn
"God of the Living"
Caroline Plotner
"Nothing Good Ever Happens When the Phone Rings"
Aaron Andrews
"The Little Green Book"
cortlyn croswhite
"The Swamp Bully"
Isabella Andreski
"The Walls that Hold Us In"
Elizabeth Plotner
"The Cage"
Ally Lawson
"One Summer"
Ben Stratman
"Four Seam"
Aaron Belman-Wells
"Phoenix"
Corben Wilson
"The Shadow"
Toby Jones
"Interrogated"
Benjamin O'Neill
"A Brighter Shade 2"
Selina Lin
"The New Girl Takes Over"
Krista Hope
"The Mysterious Town"
Peter Petrou
"The Unfortunate Surprise"
Samantha Winston- Brown
"Together Forever"
Evelyn Carroll
"A Sahara Palm Tree"
Lily Sickman-Garner
"Dominoes"
Nezam Jazayeri
"Kindness is Everybody's Religion"
Maggie Kumberg
"The Unusual Proposal"
Anastashia Gordon
"The Scary Night"
Annie Liemohn
"Worry on the Waves"
Veronica Blissick
"My Definition of a Friend"
Samantha Williams
"Accused"
Reena Gopal
"Secrets and Lies"
Evan Love
"Canine oddysey"
Sarah Winickoff
"Belonging"
Cal Thompson
"Help"
Oscar Olsen Velasco
"Deal With It"
Eleanor Niman
"Fast Flyers"
Rachel Shultz
"No Words"
Anna Sofia Ascherio-Victoria
"Sky and I "
Sam Feldman
"The Little League Cheater"
Regina Duerst
"A Wildflower Mirror"
Lilah Sesling
"Nearly There"
Annie Lu
"The Checkup "
Amelia Orwant
"With Grace"
Nina Horowitz
"A Bittersweet Halloween"
Mishal Charania
"Opportunities"
Molly Riley
"A Home at Last"
Gaby Faro
"The Journal"
Jennifer Xu
"Bubbles"
Charlotte Steglitz
"Ashes"
Elena Green
"Demons come out"
Zoe Buhalis
"Encircle"
Elyse Thomas
"Boyfriend Troubles and Lasagna"
Lindsey Rosenblatt
"Even if the Sky Shimmers"
skye mikesell
"The invisible story"
Sadye Rasmussen
"Grandfather's Last Wish"
Zayd Mohamud
"The Bomb Survival "
Hailey Riccardo
"An everlasting nightmare"
Ryan Klobucar
"Perishable"
Ryleigh Randolph
"Mutisum"
Maia Tasker
"Melted Polar Bears"
Anna Dornoff
"K-9 Connection"
Jake Lieberman
"The Mountain"
Stephanie Smith
"Jade's Rain"
Jade Hartman
"Convinced"
Maddy Barker
"Ignorance Is Bliss"
Christopher Clark
"Memories "
Jeremy Klooster
"Island Base 3"
Marisa Redding
"Dragon Tracks"
Joey Simon
"2199"
Seth Gideon
"The criminals "
Eleanor Niman
"Fast Flyers"
Faith Zimmerman
"Alone"
Aliyah Maxwell
"The Eucalyptus Girl"
Chloe Durkee
"Woodside Prep."
Elizabeth Shaieb
"Amongst my Thoughts of Luna Valentina "
Kira Brehob
"Bird Girl"
Alexander Iekel-Johnson
"The Squirrels"
Carissa Bell
"A New Beginning"
bobbijo mills
"the kidnapper "
Khoa Tran
"Into the Light"
Fiona Wait
"Under My Wing "
Elias Brush
"The Boat"
Ty Chamberlain
"The decision "
A'ishah Cerrato
"The Omen"
Melia Austin
"Can You Hear Me"
Geneve Thomas-Palmer
"Footsteps"
Sierra Lubetkin
"The Book That got Around"
Ian Steele
"The Life Gauntlet"
Eddie Gaeddert
"Alone"
Emily Koch
"A Glimpse"
Laura O'Brien
"Bangles"
Colin Ratkowski
"Nazi Zombies"
Aiyana silvey
"Back To The Begining "
Sophie Stillwagon
"Famous"
madison peal
"Don't Underestimate Older People"
Avani Guduri
"Forever"
Amalia Chappell-Lakin
"Simply Gold"
Matti Hoeppner
"Cali Morrison's trip to Neverland"
Dan Gutenberg
"It Was Bound to Happen"
Jennifer Shim
"The Day My Mother Came Back"
Meghan Deiana
"Letters to Heaven"
Ilana Londry
"Red and White "
Isabella Matthei
"Confusion in the Blinds"
Suraj Padi
"Recipe for Kindness"
Lily Barmoha
"A Strange Christmas"
Katherine Hu
"Hallelujah "
AYUSHMAN SHARMA
"TRUE FRIENDS"
Ellie Potkonjak
"Father's Favorite"
Lillia Brooks
"Frost"
Unique Soto
"26 Letters"
Mitchel Pezzua
"Treating Leads to Tricking"
anoushka sinha
"ENIGMATIC LIFE"
Fionnuala MacKercher
"Ashes To Ashes"
Alyssa Ho
"Treasure Hunters"
Angie Ling
"The Red Carnation"
Lily Cutler
"Elevation"
Ayaka Sakamoto
"What Happened To the Bluegill from the Huron River"
Bryce Yung
"Beyond The Stars"
Luke Merritt
"A Taxi, An Old Enemy, And Valentines' Day"
Abby Haase
"In Those Minutes"
Leela Raghavendran
"The Uninvited Guest"
Ari Yaffe-Inoue
"In the Midst"
Alex Alesso
"Make it Home"
Chaney Bowman
"The True Anisha"
Karinne Tennenbaum
"Troubling Times"
Kayla Esslinger
"The Chamber of the Dead"
Yoana Lopez
"Emily"
Sofia Del Fiol
"The Story of a Blind Foal"
Yuliya Liberman
"The One and Only Gracie"
Amber Yu
"Cocoa Crisis"
Cadence Franke
"Four"
Alexandra Nisbet
"Ghosts In the Shadows"
Meghan Pennell
"The Case of the Missing Collar"
Ella Stroud
"The Morning That Lasted 16 Years"
Bella DeMarco
"The Gifts"
Hoang Minh Chau Tran
"My biggest dream"
Abel Fernandez Tirado
"Friends are Forever"
Devin Quinn
"Lock's Wasteland"
ARJUN SEN
"WITH A GRAIN OF SAND"
Krystle Zachary
":Lens"
Rachel Ulatowski
"Who Is Mark?"
Stacey Goode
"Guardian Angel"
Maria Davila
"Jimmy"
Thomas McWilliams
"The Warehouse"
Paige Congreve
"The Constant "
Matt Bergdolt
"Friendship Through Basketball"
Natalie Delph
"Intergalactic Turmoil"
Codi McHugh
"Unbound"
Paul Manzo
"One Shot"
Jessica Diestel
"Wednesday"
Eve Zikmund-Fisher
"Following the Lines"
James Rode
"Late, Bound for London"
Caroline Darr
"A Grilling Legend"
Beki Gerbick
"Shattered, But Still Whole"
Keerthenan Raveendra
"Twelve Days, Twelve Nights"
Gabe Thomas
"The Night of Iniquity "
Dyllan Rafail
"Hawthorn Tree"
Simone Schade
"12th Street"
Raven Tipton
"Mother Knows Best, Even in Death"
Elizabeth Edwards
"Withdrawal "
Hannah McNamara
"Hurt "
Conan Cekola
"Leviathan"
Bethany Daigle
"The Choice"
Keri Haddrill
"Stairway to the Sky"
Violet Webster
"Come With Me"
Maddie DePuy
"Egg Islands"
Macy Delasco
"Last Minute Journey"
Kayla Bull
"Tattoos and Anger Management"
Cindy Lopez
"Stalking Angels"
Shuntale Lewis
"Pregnant"
Antonia Gates
"Subtlety"
Sonya Moss
"The Prey"
Cameron Marciano
"Hooking The Masses"
Maria Pereyra
"I've Got a Better One"
Daniela Ochoa
"How He Loves Me"
Katherine Horning
"Coming Out"
Katherine Nichols
"Tasting Winter"
Janine Faust
"Migration to Russia"
Emily Witt
"This Atelier "
Yailyn Garcia
"Unforeseen Secrets"
Kaitlyn Carr
"Family Values"
Zachary Reynolds
"The Blacksmith of Tinworth"
Rebecca Girardin
"Ashed"
Robert Herron
"The Split Equation"
Anna Brown
"Act Casual: The Jessie Falcon Adventures #1"
Eva Rosenfeld
"What's on the Bad-Wet Water"
Lisa Andreozzi
"Afterthought"
James Stinnett
"Verbindung im München"
Emily Latulippe
"The Dance with the Dead"
Halsey Hutchinson
"An Enchanted Lilac Forest"
Tiffany Cosgrove
"The Storm"
Kaitlyn Tonkin
"Black Coffee Poetry "
Jessica Sheely
"Deserta "
Elizabeth Chew
"Over and Over Again"
Jordan Duncan
"Vampires Suck (A Lot) "
Emily Ojeda
"Kora's Song"
Katia Kukucka
"Lucky Number Seven"
Daniella Derraugh
"Alex and Sabrina"
Alexandra Hobrecht
"To Red October Skies"
Jacqueline Wolf
"Too Young to Help But Not to Starve"
Jack Cassell
"The Hollow Skull"
Makela Lynn
"Wintermint Gum "
Lyna Ikharbine
"Inner Asylum"
Shenu Kathymoon
"Too Much"
Anastasia Beer
"Hope"
Emily Schussheim
"Lizards Who Expel Their Sticky Tongues Like Fishing Line"
Stephanie Casio
"Just Keep Talking"
Joel Appel-Kraut
"Strung Along"
Mila Serefko
"Grandpa Lost His Marbles "
Michelle Glans
"Going Nowhere"
martina reid
"Lost"
Kylie Irving
"What It means to be Clean"
Chasity Hale
"Agoraphobia"
Kimberly Schmidt
"It Was Always Too Late"
Sarah Chan
"Six Words for Love "
Alayna Brahier
"The Unknown Death"
Avery Lumeng
"Daisy"
Gabriella Alexis
"Communion Season"
Aylin Gunal
"Writing a Boy"
Antonella Reyes
"La Negrita"
Zoe Stephan
"The House In Between"
Aubrey Sherman
"Just Be Happy"
Niraja Surendran
"Pieces"
Kaijun Ma
"Colors of Our Lives"
Emma Martin- Hilker
"Thin Realities "
Lina Snyder Romero
"Blackbird"
Joshua Smith
"Freedom Walk"
Kenna Jenkins
"Stardust"
Margaret Camilletti
"The Magic Flower"
Molly Cooke
"Hieroglyphic Disappearance "
Luna Garcia
"Vows"
Christine Charpie
"Chaya"
Mackenzie Bultman
"Witch"
Matthew Nguyen
"The Red Village"
Ellie Falahee
"And Papa Cried"
Justin Michele
"The Manhattan Project"
Hanna Maciaszek
"Armored Love"
Rhea Park
"Starry Night"
Michelle Merritt
"Farewell to Fireflies"
Kimberly McGuire
"El Diablo"
Isak Poulsen
"The Forgotten Patriot"
Tatiana Mason
"Change of Heart"
Shakyra Felix
"I do?"
Margaret Dahlmann
"Reality of the 1920s"
Georgia Wainwright
"The Lowest Branches"
shania shealey
"Not So Horrible First Day of School "
A. A. Reinecke
"The Sand Colored Subject"
Cierra Taber
"Taken in the Night"
Alexa Gonzalez
"Communication"
Angeles Parada
"The Strike"
Gabriella Chu
"Yosemite"
Danelle Antelo
"Company"
Emily Howard
"Okay"
Olivia Plagens
"Just 8 Seconds"
Isabelle Clark
"A Strange Bond with Death"
Sophya Giudici-Juarez
"Time-Out"
Daniela Gutierrez
"To Love a Scrapper"
Abigail Pelger
"Just Three"
Gabriella Chu
"Yosemite"
Shannon Kelly
"Perspective "
Lissette Lendeborg
"Natural Disaster"
Cierra Taber
"Taken In the Night"
Tiffany Vembenil
"Dear Dawn"
Naomi Jeanpierre
"Friendship"
Grace Bassick
"Journey to the End"
Sarah Remillard
"18 Years Handwritten"
Victoria Griffen
"Too Little, Too Late"
Veronica Palacios
"Basic Space"
Anna Vogel
"Paper Paradise"
Marina Ellis
"Escape"
Zane Ader
"the story of us"
Ashley Markunas
"Surveillance Camera 381"
Alex Eisman
"The German Survivor"
James Balo
"Motel 7"
Sarah Ference
"A Heavy Leaf to Turn"
Drew Vigo
"The Untold Story of John F. Kennedy's Death"
Christina Starks
"Night Blood"
Arnav Nadgir
"Survival of the fittest"
Amelia Bice
"The Winter Star"
Sophie Kephart
"Spill or be Killed"
James Johal-Smith
"An (Almost) Free Korea"
Christopher Zou
"Ball is Life"
Kate Olson
"Terminal"
Evan Swanson
"The Ivied and the Hopeful "
Elisa Silverstein
"My Pet Jimmy"
Sofia Kwok
"Sleight of Hand"
Emily Ma
"The Conquest of Flight"
Virginia Campbell
"Maniaphobia"
Lydia Gilbert
"Mystery of Flight 19"
Stephanie Okun
"Firsts and Lasts"
Emily Mattson
"One Sentence"