2022 Story-Writing Contest
This year's contest was a huge success! With 350 submissions from kids across the country in grades 1 to 6, our wonderful team of judges had a lot to consider.
Winners, grade 1-2
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Madisyn Schick "Apple Pie Friends: The Garden Party" Weyburn, SK |
Kate Wehlage "Mayra’s Adventure" Calgary, AB |
Michael Yang "World War I - The Bullet Boomer" Toronto, ON |
Winners, grade 3-4
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Reena Ma "The Cloud Witch" Vancouver, BC |
Claire Morrissey "A Letter from a Tree" London, ON |
Raaya Zaman Naysa "I'm Yulia" Kelowna, BC |
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Angelina Stelmashchuk "An Ocean of Sunflowers" Charlottetown, PEI |
Winners, grade 5-6
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Chioma Esealuka "Floral" Brampton, ON
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Sofia Platias "Lost in a Book" Kanata, ON
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Moses Maendel "Fishing for Junk" Ste. Agathe, MB
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Thank you to our young authors, now published in One Story a Day by Kids for Kids!
Ambikaiselvan, Thrishaan
Beeksma, Shaylee-Ann
Cicconi, Anthony
Diao, Evan
Esealuka, Chioma
Gratton, Brianna
Hanstock, Ian
Ho, Riley
Kim, Mina
Knudson, Brie
Matuscak Currie, Theresa
Law, Brianna
Lennon, Wyatt
Liu, Chloe
Liu, Harvey
Luo, Lucas
Ma, Reena
MacKenzie, Lily
Maendel, Moses
Morrissey, Claire
Naysa, Raaya Zaman
Platias, Sofia
Rochon, Aiden
Schick, Madisyn
Sevigny Tahbaz, Alleah
Somesan, Sarah
Stelmashchuk, Angelina
Thomas, Peyton
Wehlage, Kate
Yang, Michael
Yu, Shirley
Even if your work was not selected, consider this a personal victory. You created something wonderful and, with practice, you will continue to grow as a writer and as an individual. Congratulations on having the courage to submit a piece of yourself to our contest.
Thank you to the schools with the most submissions.
Bertha Kennedy Catholic School in St. Albert, AB, wins a cash/book prize!
Thank you to our judges!
After much deliberation, the DC Canada team and its external judging panel decided on the best stories.
Internal judges: Meizhen Dang, Leonard Judge, and Kara Cybanski
External judges: American children’s book author Jennifer Burrows, Principal Francesse Kopczewski with the OCSDB, Professor Christina de Simone of the University of Ottawa, and Braden Harrison, an intern from the Algonquin College Professional Writing Program
This contest is brought to you by the One Story A Day collection. One Story A Day contains a total of 365 stories—one for each day of the year—separated into 12 books, each representing one month of the year.
