Literary Fair winners 2026

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Once every year, Heritages’ best student creatives submit their work to the Literary Fair
to be showcased alongside art in the Expressions magazine. This list is of those whose pieces
have placed highly among their peers, and will be featured in the Expressions literary art
magazine and on its associated website.

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First Place Winners:

Amelia Corbo – Amongst The Sheep (Fable)
Daniel Chernyavsky – The Dirge Hidden in The Punchline (Formal Essay)
Daniel Chernyavsky – The Willow Court (Scene Writing)
Jonathan Schwartz – Morality of Disobedience (Informal Essay)
Yike Zhu – Sealing Dinosaurs (Myth)
Amelia Corbo – Fleeting Safety (Personal Narrative)
Isabella Fierro Peralta – Unweave (Political/Satirical Cartoon)
Alexander Ngo – Mission Gone Wrong (Short Story)
Charlie Fashny – Unspoken: A Secret (Cinquain)
Antonia Fierro Peralta – The Thriller Man (Ekphrastic Poem)
Levi Fleischer – Almost Burning (Free Verse)
Eddy Rogers – Solitary Berlin (Haiku)
Madeline Zhuravel – Ode To Loneliness (Ode)
Ellie Baez – When the Sky Weeped the Night Before (Parody Poem)

Greco Tibirica – Her (Two Voice Poem)
Joshua Reid – A Man and His Corvette (Rhymed Verse)
Anjali Patel – Inside The Pages (Villanelle)

Second Place Winners:
Brandon Bennet – The Rule of Reliability (Fable)
Isabella Torres – The Day I Learned to Rise (Personal Narrative)
Gabriella Duman – Ashes of the Forgotten (Scene Writing)
Avery Hope – The Shadow Man (Short Story)
Madeline Zhuravel – The Boy Who Flew (Free Verse)
Aubrey Cypress – The Seminole Heart (Haiku)
Siyona Narang – An Ode To Circus Performers (Ode)
Rachel Cohen – A Nap within a Nap (Parody Poem)
Lina Kim – Words and Codes (Two Voice Poem)
Danica Simmons – Conch Salad (Rhymed Verse)
Noel Marrero – Love is the Flame (Villanelle)

Third Place Winners:
Sebastiaan Volkenborn – The Blue Jay and The Belltower (Fable)
Max Belleh – 4500 Miles Away (Personal Narrative)

Thalia Cedeno – Independence (Short Story)
Anna Chetan – Dermatillomania (Free Verse)
Antonio Aristizabal – Emerald Mountains (Haiku)
Mattias Lazzaro – A Juan within a Horse (Parody Poem)
Arjun Ravi – A Moment of Silence (Rhymed Verse)
Mandy Wu – Liminality (Villanelle)

Honorable Mentions:
Lucas Calderon – Success vs. Failure (Informal Essay)
Brielle Spease – Jaded Crown (Short Story)
Camila Doerffler – The Creek (Haiku)
Colin Camp – A Hot Shower with Steam (Parody Poem)
Francesca Zito – I Want Someone to Know Me (Free Verse)
Amanda Rodriguez – Romeo? (Rhymed Verse)
Lina Kim – October (Villanelle)

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