Previous Student Winners
Collection of Our Winning Pieces
The National Letterly Writing Competitions invite students to share their unique perspectives and tackle the challenge of crafting something meaningful. The results are inspiring—a reflection of the thought, care, and talent each student brought to the page.
To our winners: Congratulations on this incredible achievement! Your words have left a lasting impression, and we’re so proud to celebrate your hard work. Keep writing, keep exploring, and never doubt the impact of your voice.
We’re always cheering you on.
The Letterly Editorial Team 💖
Recent Winners of the National Letterly Writing Competition Winter 2024:
Congratulations!
I traced the raindrops on the fog-covered window and gradually saw
shapes appearing. Shapes, circles, the blue and sunny sky, the ocean.
If I could talk to myself from five years ago, I would be eight years old. The first thing I would say
is, “Have fun and enjoy everything! Time goes by really fast.” When I was eight, that was when
COVID-19 started. Everyone had to stay home, wear masks, and not go outside. At first it felt kind
of fun because I didn’t have to go to school, but after a while I got really bored. I missed my friends,
my teachers, and even just being outside with other people. Still, even with all that, I feel like those
years went by so quickly.
There are many wonders of the ocean, including a superpower that only some fish have! It is
called biofluorescence and is when a fish can absorb light and release it, causing the fish itself
to glow. Not only are the fish getting superpowers, but deep below in the sea at a place called
the mesopelagic zone (often called the twilight zone), which is 200 to 1,000 meters deep.
This summer, young writers from all over the world joined The Journal Bootcamp to learn about current events, write creatively, and get published! Students worked closely with their dedicated coaches each week to edit and refine their writing, until it was worthy of a feature in an online magazine.
Beauty Through the Lines our world covered with lines streaking across the surface jagged edges cutting in burrowing into the...
Ryan Peng English 19/7/25 Ants In the idyllic and rustic countryside of a far away, foreign land, where the flowers...