Literary Analysis

7-8

1st: Aidan Cheng (7) “The Art of Racing in the Rain”

2nd: Pranav Erukulapati (7) Divergent Letter Essay

9-10

1st: Logan Lee (10) “A Comparison of the Themes Between ‘Young Goodman Brown’ and Primary Source Documents from the Salem Witch Trials”

2nd: Alila Nguyen (10) “One Amongst Many:  The Omnipresence of Loneliness in ‘Acquainted with the Night’”

Third Siddharth Srinivasan (10) “The Forest and Autumn”

11-12

1st: Susan Flatt (11) “Love and Beauty”

2nd: Skye Bulman (12) “The Effect of Damaged Father-Daughter Relationships within Crime and Punishment and Hamlet”

3rd: Elle Mizue (11) “Isben’s Subversion of Hope”

Personal Essay

7-8

1st: Sonia Pourjalali (7) “Who Knows?” 

2nd: Lana Komatsu (7) “Scavenger Hunt”

3rd: Aiden Cheng (7) “The Perspective Paradox”

9-10

1st: Calder Engle (9) “Stumbling Over Words”

2nd: Madeline Lucy Nicolas (9) “Hard To Stomach”

3rd: Audrey Lin (10) “December 8th”

11-12

1st: Diyora (Raine) Kamilova (11) “A Butterfly’s Journey” 

2nd: Michael Hicks (12) “The Charm of a Teenage Boy’s Bedroom”

3rd: West Shigeoka (12) “Candor’s Gift”

Short Story

7-8

1st: Maiken Andreyeyev (7) “Different Shades” 

2nd: Jaeden Ishida (7) “The Adoption”

3rd: Lin Peng (7) “Maybe There’s Something We’re Afraid Of”

9-10

1st: Elle Sugimoto (10) “Unusual Surprises”

2nd: Logan Lee (10) “Winchester Repeating Arms”

3rd: Halo Delmonico (9) “The Forest of Lost Voices”

11-12

1st: Skye Bulman (12) “The Pianist”

2nd: Susan Flatt (11) “A Better Tomorrow”

3rd: Lindsey Barcia (11) “Adapt”

Poetry

7-8

1st: Kaila Vavul (7) “Where Owls Fly”

2nd: Gabby Kim (8) “Our Resigning Dream”

3rd: Kaleimaikai Fasi (8) “Home Sweet Home”

9-10

1st: Leia Choi (9) “An Ecstacy/Anticleia”

2nd: Arabella Tan (9) “Space Between the Stars”

3rd: Mason Funasaki (9) “Salmon Soup”

11-12

1st: Eva Dziadurski (11) “Or Maybe You Never Asked Me Anything”

2nd: Mara Goldstein (12) “Hoshana”

3rd: Grace Fujii (11) “What I Can’t Say”

Dramatic Script (no grade category)

1st: Olivia Hwang (12) Achilles & Patroclus: An Epic Tragedy

2nd: Anya Teruya (7) “Muted”

3rd: Kayli Shimizu (7) “Anderson Family BBQ”