Creative Writing Competition 2013-14 RESULTS
February 12, 2014
Congratulations to the over 330 students (over 400 submissions) who entered the 6th Annual CGA Creative Writing Competition! Over 30 judges have spent the last 2 months reviewing the fiction, non-fiction and poetry entries.
1st Place and Honorable Mention listed below will be published in a book to be released on April 3, 2014. Honorable Mentions are listed below in no particular order, but will be placed alphabetically by last name in the book.
We must receive a Parent Permission Form (please click here to complete the form) for stories/poems to be published in the book.
Don’t forget to order your books here ($17. each). Mark your calendars:
Book Release Party
April 3 (pick up books at 5:30p, program starts at 5:45p).
Special guest: Todd Storch, co-author of Taylor’s Gift.
If you have any questions about the competition, please click for our Rules and FAQs.
If there is a misspelling of the student’s name, or other questions, please contact Elizabeth Chappell.
FICTION
| 3 | Fiction | Raj Krishna | Nallanthighal | The Hungry Bear & Friends | 1st Place |
| Aryan | Karthik | The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle | Honorable Mention | ||
| Reed | Emmons | Steven Witching and the Dinosaur Prince | Honorable Mention | ||
| Michelle | Liu | Jessica’s Gem Hunt | Honorable Mention | ||
| 4 | Fiction | Ellie | Miller | Becoming Trixie | 1st Place |
| Aditi | Krishnan | A Witch’s Diary | Honorable Mention | ||
| Maanas | Sharma | Kernel Tales | Honorable Mention | ||
| Anjali | Acharya | The Magic Sleeping Mango Tree | Honorable Mention | ||
| 5 | Fiction | Natalie | Adams | Beyond The Branches | 1st Place |
| Jenny | Ji | When Clocks Argue | Honorable Mention | ||
| Anish | Devineni | Oinktopia | Honorable Mention | ||
| Yashasvi | Karri | The Mirror of Fortune | Honorable Mention | ||
| 6 | Fiction | Aneesh | Sharma | Flashback: A Slice of Life | 1st Place |
| Natalie | Green | Angel’s Face | Honorable Mention | ||
| Isabelle | Hernandez | Falling Apart to Fall Together | Honorable Mention | ||
| Dayna | Balough | The Gondola Man | Honorable Mention | ||
| Shravya | Mahesh | The Magic Lockt | Honorable Mention | ||
| Akansha | Singh | Flight of the Condor | Honorable Mention | ||
| Jennifer | Baggett | Be Careful What You Wish For | Honorable Mention | ||
| 7 | Fiction | Kelly | Wei | Brave | 1st Place |
| Ruben | Mikaelyan | Discovery of the Ark | Honorable Mention | ||
| Joseph | Koh | The Outside | Honorable Mention | ||
| Alice (Chaeyeon) | Han | A Promise | Honorable Mention | ||
| Uttami | Godha | The Queen of Fire | Honorable Mention | ||
| Manasi | Ramadurgum | Winter | Honorable Mention | ||
| 8 | Fiction | Abbie | Hall | Notes from the Basement | 1st Place |
| Matthew | Gaffney | Reflective | Honorable Mention | ||
| Pranjal | Jain | World War 3 | Honorable Mention | ||
| Amulya | Pilla | A-D Terminated | Honorable Mention | ||
| Rithvik | Suresh | Behind Enemy Lines | Honorable Mention | ||
| Sarah | Low | Joy | Honorable Mention | ||
| 9 | Fiction | Esther | Cha | Nice to Be You | 1st Place |
| Chase | Price | Wake Up | Honorable Mention | ||
| Nikita | Belathur | Argonauts | Honorable Mention | ||
| Sonja | Feaster | The Story in the Statues | Honorable Mention | ||
| Abhi | Manivannan | No Blood | Honorable Mention | ||
| Siddhant | Singh | The Change of Perspective | Honorable Mention | ||
| 10.11.12 | Fiction | Emily | Friis-Hansen | Something More Than This Madness | 1st Place |
| Ananya | Rajesh | This Book | Honorable Mention | ||
| Amela | Pjetrovic | Infinite in Love | Honorable Mention | ||
| Jessica | Kelly | Fate | Honorable Mention | ||
| Prerana | Ramadurgum | Clipped Wings | Honorable Mention | ||
| Pranav | Jayaraman | Gray | Honorable Mention | ||
| Shri | Karri | The Wealthiest Woman | Honorable Mention | ||
| JoAnne | Chu | Burnt | Honorable Mention | ||
| Marisa | Garza | Survival | Honorable Mention |
NON-FICTION
| 3.4 | NonFiction | Aditi | Krishnan | Island Time | 1st Place |
| Siri | Boinapalli | My Summer Vacation | Honorable Mention | ||
| Parthiv | Javangula | Mars – The Red Planet | Honorable Mention | ||
| Milani | Miller | The Lake Of The Ozarks | Honorable Mention | ||
| Saketh | Mamidi | Oceans and Marine Life | Honorable Mention | ||
| Stephanie | You | My Future as a Newspaper Publisher | Honorable Mention | ||
| 5.6 | NonFiction | Divya | Ravindra | My Anxious Wait | 1st Place |
| Anushri | Saxena | Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia | Honorable Mention | ||
| Priya | Marella | The Time of My Life | Honorable Mention | ||
| Keertana | Narayanan | A Hard Day | Honorable Mention | ||
| Sreya | Mulukutla | Costa Rica | Honorable Mention | ||
| Aneesh | Sharma | THE MAGIC OF MATHEMATICS | Honorable Mention | ||
| Akansha | Singh | The Music In My Life | Honorable Mention | ||
| 7 | NonFiction | Kelly | Wei | Elbows and Air | 1st Place |
| Akila | Muthukumar | Why Tennis | Honorable Mention | ||
| Nisha | Singh | Sgt. Brian Callahan: A Stranger, A Father, A Hero | Honorable Mention | ||
| Tanmay | Karandikar | Life Lessons From My Favorite Avocation | Honorable Mention | ||
| Jayashree | Ganesan | Magic is Real | Honorable Mention | ||
| Alice (Chaeyeon) | Han | Me? | Honorable Mention | ||
| Ishita | Rastogi | Guitar, my Life Saver | Honorable Mention | ||
| Catherine | Guo | JFK: Theories behind the Assassination | Honorable Mention | ||
| 8.9 | NonFiction | Ashna | Pathan | Do the Ghosts of Our Past Haunt Us Today??? | 1st Place |
| Shruti | Vellaturi | Go Green! | Honorable Mention | ||
| Aditi | Jain | Nelson Mandela—A Revolutionary | Honorable Mention | ||
| Deepa | Ravindra | The Catalysts of Innovation | Honorable Mention | ||
| Xiaoqi | Liu | Reaching High Note: Success and Determination in Opera Singing | Honorable Mention | ||
| Alisha | Sayani | My Light | Honorable Mention | ||
| 10.11.12 | NonFiction | Daniel | Koh | Don’t Cry Because It’s Over, Prepare Before It Happens | 1st Place |
| Gabrielle | Lecca | Smile Mommy | Honorable Mention | ||
| Shruthika | Pochampally | Untitled | Honorable Mention | ||
| Emily | Friis-Hansen | Cruel As It Is, We Somehow Go On | Honorable Mention | ||
| Alyssa | Ely | Lies | Honorable Mention |
POETRY
| 3 | Poetry | Fatima | Syed | Tin the Caterpiller | 1st Place |
| Michelle | Our Bad Recess Weather | Honorable Mention | |||
| Laura | Charters | The Face Off | Honorable Mention | ||
| Tejomai | Buyyanapragada | My Majestic Friend | Honorable Mention | ||
| Ananya | Mukund | Over the Years | Honorable Mention | ||
| 4 | Poetry | Tvisha | Garg | A Slice of Street Life | 1st Place |
| Shrujin | Shah | The Evolving World | Honorable Mention | ||
| Adarsh | Pulasseri | If I Were A Bird | Honorable Mention | ||
| Aditi | Krishnan | Holidays through the year | Honorable Mention | ||
| Aarushi | Chitagi | The Wonders of Nature | Honorable Mention | ||
| Maanas | Sharma | A Summer’s Day | Honorable Mention | ||
| Lauren | Chamberlain | Simply Me | Honorable Mention | ||
| 5 | Poetry | Divya | Ravindra | The Petal and Thorn of Beauty | 1st Place |
| Jenny | Ji | The One-Lizard Exercise Course | Honorable Mention | ||
| Kaitlin | Tan | Comfort | Honorable Mention | ||
| Anushri | Saxena | The Little Ugly Man | Honorable Mention | ||
| Avani | Kashyap | Snow | Honorable Mention | ||
| Mihir | Khare | The Clumsy Carpenters | Honorable Mention | ||
| 6 | Poetry | Akansha | Singh | Leaves | 1st Place |
| Bailey | Baskett | FLOWER DREAMS | Honorable Mention | ||
| Isabelle | Hernandez | Away | Honorable Mention | ||
| Emilie | Sangerhausen | The Song | Honorable Mention | ||
| Monish sankar | Ravishankar | ZEUS: THE KING OF GODS | Honorable Mention | ||
| Anjali | Satpathy | Nightmare | Honorable Mention | ||
| 7 | Poetry | Ryan | Schwenn | The Hated | 1st Place |
| Abhijit | Bhattaru | Relentless | Honorable Mention | ||
| Kanishka | Bhatt | Standing Alone | Honorable Mention | ||
| Kelly | Wei | A Short Spectrum | Honorable Mention | ||
| Swaraaj | Bhattacharya | The Push For Equality | Honorable Mention | ||
| 8 | Poetry | Shruti | Vellaturi | Rising Stars | 1st Place |
| Abbie | Hall | The Name Game | Honorable Mention | ||
| Emaan | Allawala | Turquoise | Honorable Mention | ||
| Nimisha | Jain | Two Hearts, One Beat | Honorable Mention | ||
| Maydha | Kohli | Six Words | Honorable Mention | ||
| Dharshini | Suresh | The Serene Beauty | Honorable Mention | ||
| Deepa | Ravindra | A Petal Of Potential | Honorable Mention | ||
| 9.10 | Poetry | Sujal | Manohar | Ruby Survivors | 1st Place |
| Madeline | Huang | Far Away | Honorable Mention | ||
| Rohina | Aslam | Leaving me Slowly | Honorable Mention | ||
| Aishwarya | Addepalli | Heil my work, – So divine! | Honorable Mention | ||
| Raymond | Webb | Cold, Lonely, and Quiet | Honorable Mention | ||
| Sabrine | Alsalih | The Mirror | Honorable Mention | ||
| 11.12 | Poetry | Emily | Friis-Hansen | Vices and Foxholes | 1st Place |
| Prerana | Ramadurgum | Ever | Honorable Mention | ||
| Ashlyn | Huang | Crisis of the Deus Ex Machina | Honorable Mention | ||
| Gabrielle | Rodrigeus | Black History | Honorable Mention |
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Coppell Gifted Association 
I’m so proud of all my students! They have really done an amazing job!
How exciting to view the results and see many of my past GT learners as first place and honorable mention winners! I am not surprised to read your names because you were gifted writers when I had you and I am proud of you for following your dreams, sharing your writing and taking a risk by entering a contest. I am encouraged by you to continue to guide others though the years. I love each of you dearly! Mrs. Smith