2024 Teen Writing Contest Winners
Congratulations to our 2024 Teen Writing Contest Winners!
The Morristown Festival of Books is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 Teen Writing Contest. The writing contest was open to all New Jersey high school students entering grades 9, 10, 11, or 12 during the 2024-25 school year. This year, MFOB received over 91 entries from students at 31 different schools in 9 counties throughout New Jersey.
You can read the winning stories in the Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry categories by clicking each author’s name in the list below.
And the winners are:
Fiction Winners
Nonfiction Winners
Poetry Winners
The Morristown Festival of Books congratulates all the winners as well as every student who submitted writing to this year’s contest. All the entries testify to the incredible talent among New Jersey’s young writers.
The 2024 Teen Writing Contest has been made possible
by the generous sponsorship of the Gunzler Family Memorial.
The nonfiction category is sponsored by Justice Stewart G. Pollock (retired).
For more information about the contest, click here.
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