‘Iolani Writes 2023 Winners
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”
