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.
Best of Creative Nonfiction: Alexis Surface, “You Are Who You Were”
Honorable Mention: Ella Kraai, “The Tree of Knowledge”
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”
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”
Lennox Tan, “Stars That Fall”