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PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest winners
Winners were published in the yearly anthologies
2025 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest
Category 1 (Grades 3 and 4)
1st Place Winner: Ruth Ryan-Watkins, Atop a Spinning Marble
2nd Place Winner: Lilyana Pabey, Summer Break
3rd Place Winner: Heidi Clark, The Irish Song
Category 2 (Grades 5 and 6)
1st Place Winner: Grace Galvan, Poems Can be Anything, About Anything, are Everywhere
2nd Place Winner: Francesca Tartack, The Oracle of the Will-O
Category 3 (Grades 7 and 8)
1st Place Winner: Eden Haire, Summer
2nd Place Winner: Violet Leitzman, Daydream
3rd Place Winner: Kylee Turner, The Fallen and The Lost
Category 4 (Grades 9 and 10)
1st Place Winner: Kshama, Still, We Rise
2nd Place Winner: Nicholas Bennett, A Fall Poem
3rd Place Winner: Macy Spicer, We Used to be Nerds
Category 5 (Grades 11 and 12)
1st Place Winner: Areeba Alam, Sonder
2nd Place Winner: Katerina Crossley, My Father and The Sky
3rd Place Winner: Claireen, How to Measure Time
2024 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest
Denial of Retreat, Francesca Tartrack
The Powerful Flowers, Savannah English
The Portrait of the Lady on Fire, Adelyn Welsch
Perfect, Andralyn Yao
2022 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest, Grades 3 & 4
First Place: Tycha Quick, Princess
Second Place: Kendrick Kanney, Shadows
Third Place: Piper Schalk, The Challenge
2022 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest, Grades 5 & 6
First Place: Aubrie Harris, Decisions
Second Place: Eleanor Steiner, Messy Room
Third Place: Megan Winland, Dim but Light
2022 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest, Grades 7 & 8
First Place: Ana Lucia Diaz, Enciso, A Trap All Along
Second Place: Amelia Hughes, What Is Perfect
Third Place: Layla Jaime, Goodbye
2022 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest, Grades 9 & 10
First Place: Olivia Camara, Famous Insecurities
Second Place: Eland Edwards, Mind Me
Third Place (tie): Cammie Ritchie, I Started off as Caterpillar
Third Place (tie): Ava Seefeldt, I Used to be a Window
2022 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest, Grades 11 & 12
First Place: Lillian Guntz, Sidewalk Pennies
Second Place: Hannah Michel, The Lost Pond
Third Place: Katelyn Saul, The Hunter and the Prey
2025 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest
Category 1 (Grades 3 and 4)
1st Place Winner: Ruth Ryan-Watkins, Atop a Spinning Marble
2nd Place Winner: Lilyana Pabey, Summer Break
3rd Place Winner: Heidi Clark, The Irish Song
Category 2 (Grades 5 and 6)
1st Place Winner: Grace Galvan, Poems Can be Anything, About Anything, are Everywhere
2nd Place Winner: Francesca Tartack, The Oracle of the Will-O
Category 3 (Grades 7 and 8)
1st Place Winner: Eden Haire, Summer
2nd Place Winner: Violet Leitzman, Daydream
3rd Place Winner: Kylee Turner, The Fallen and The Lost
Category 4 (Grades 9 and 10)
1st Place Winner: Kshama, Still, We Rise
2nd Place Winner: Nicholas Bennett, A Fall Poem
3rd Place Winner: Macy Spicer, We Used to be Nerds
Category 5 (Grades 11 and 12)
1st Place Winner: Areeba Alam, Sonder
2nd Place Winner: Katerina Crossley, My Father and The Sky
3rd Place Winner: Claireen, How to Measure Time
2024 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest
Denial of Retreat, Francesca Tartrack
The Powerful Flowers, Savannah English
The Portrait of the Lady on Fire, Adelyn Welsch
Perfect, Andralyn Yao
2022 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest, Grades 3 & 4
First Place: Tycha Quick, Princess
Second Place: Kendrick Kanney, Shadows
Third Place: Piper Schalk, The Challenge
2022 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest, Grades 5 & 6
First Place: Aubrie Harris, Decisions
Second Place: Eleanor Steiner, Messy Room
Third Place: Megan Winland, Dim but Light
2022 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest, Grades 7 & 8
First Place: Ana Lucia Diaz, Enciso, A Trap All Along
Second Place: Amelia Hughes, What Is Perfect
Third Place: Layla Jaime, Goodbye
2022 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest, Grades 9 & 10
First Place: Olivia Camara, Famous Insecurities
Second Place: Eland Edwards, Mind Me
Third Place (tie): Cammie Ritchie, I Started off as Caterpillar
Third Place (tie): Ava Seefeldt, I Used to be a Window
2022 PSI Young Voices Annual Poetry Contest, Grades 11 & 12
First Place: Lillian Guntz, Sidewalk Pennies
Second Place: Hannah Michel, The Lost Pond
Third Place: Katelyn Saul, The Hunter and the Prey