Vision & Verse: Creative Nonfiction

The 2025 Vision & Verse writing contest features original writing in poetry, short story, creative nonfiction, and persuasive essay from high schoolers across the Northeast Metro. Scroll on to read this years creative nonfiction work.

Hannah Bradley, “Encomium of August

Zawa Carney, “The Unsent Letter

Liliana Englund, “I miss you

Morgan Hoff, “When it's clear that everything will never be the same again

Molly Hulting, “Meyer Lemon

Molly Hulting, “Peanut Butter Cookies

Ella Kraai, “The Tree of Knowledge

Jocelyn Lidle, “Grandma’s House

Okkoto, “losing thyself

Danielle Paulene Pineda, “One Schoolday

Naomi Rediger, “Good and Bad

Luke Roettger, “Feins of the Dollar Twenty-Five Tree

Esme Roux, “Charlie

Yuktika Samtani, “Echos of Winter and Snow

Sophia Schriedl, “Me, Myself and Too Many Choices

Ben Spindler, “Weights to Wisdom: How the Gym Shaped My Confidence and Growth

Alexis Surface, “You Are Who You Were

Lennox Tan, “Stars That Fall