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National Teen Storyteller Contest
Biking Home

Catherine Elison | 12th Grade
Santa Barbara, CA & Kanagawa, Japan

First Place — One evening, a teenage girl was biking home on the streets of Tokyo. The sun had gone down an hour earlier
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National Teen Storyteller Contest
Remnants of My Homeland

Caroline Zhang
11th Grade | Woodbury, MN

Second Place — They made their way across the ocean, concrete in the spray of the sea mist. They met their new lives as foreigners...
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National Teen Storyteller Contest
Lychees

Fiona Jin
11th Grade | Lincolnshire, IL

Third Place — “Hey, Ariana, what’s this?” James Gilbert-Kelley—Ariana Zhou’s boyfriend—asks...
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A Raised Eyebrow

Donnal Marfo
10th Grade | Brooklyn, NY

Honorable Mention — i remember this time when i was a little smaller than 10, going out shopping, and getting tired as nine...
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Falling into the Culture of In-Between

Serena Young
11th Grade | Orlando, FL

First Place — Being Asian never really bothered me, until the 2nd grade. From the crayon box, sharp and unused, I picked out a peach color
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National Teen Storyteller Contest
Departure

Satori McCormick
12th Grade | Castle Rock, CO

Second Place — Lydia had noticed that her bruises were shaped in the form of butterflies. When her husband beat her, they flew...
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National Teen Storyteller Contest
The Story of the Skipping Stone

Ella Mask
12th Grade | Alpine, UT

Third Place — In a town along the ocean, full of people as beaten and weary as its shore, is a girl born from the sea
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National Teen Storyteller Contest
San and Bert

Jessica Wang
12th Grade, New York

First Place — San lived in a strawberry. It was a large strawberry, plump with a spongy outer skin and as grand as a boulder
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All the Buttons

Eleanor Bolas
9th Grade, New York

Second Place — The doorbell trills, ding-ding-ding, and then the door is open and Dee is pulling me inside her apartment.
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Public Park Therapy

Rachel Samantha Rose
Freshman, University of Vermont

Third Place — After a full minute of laughing and wheezing James blurts, “She didn’t even get the slur right