2024 Creative Writing Contest Winners

Posted: August 22, 2024

Creative Writing Contest 2024 Short Story/Poetry Winners

The Iowa Reading Association Short Story and Poetry Contest is open to students and their teachers grades K-12. Students from local reading councils across Iowa submitted their original compositions to the contest to be judged. Winners were honored at the Iowa Reading Association Conference in Ames, Iowa on June 25, 2024. Lauren Tarshis, author of the I Survived Series, spoke to the winners on the topic of being a writer. She talked about her writing process, becoming a writer, and how she researches her books. Writers also shared their writing aloud.