The Booksie 2017 High School Essay Contest

The Winners Are...

• A Glimpse Into Volunteer Firefighting by: BriannasBooks
• video games, grand theft auto, child psychology, and effects by: Owen RT
• Women Should Be Teachers by: Cvega
• Common Core Analysis by: jcuacuas
• pay the athletes by: babat
• Effects of Mass Incarceration on African American Communities by: Aboya
• Equality by: ananyags
• The Fault In Our Perceptions by: Priscilla O.
• What is a Happy Genius? by: gloriouslyvain
• Wham! by: bunnybri7

Congratulations to all of the winners! The winners and the finalists will be receiving their certificates shortly. In addition, we will begin the process of crafting an ebook to be distributed on Amazon and other etailers. Thanks for your participation! The judges enjoyed your essays.

Twenty Finalists Announced

The Finalists in the Booksie 2017 High School Essay Contest are (in no certain order):

• A Glimpse Into Volunteer Firefighting by: BriannasBooks

• Evil Deeds and Dire Consequences by: Justit

• Subtext of Sexuality in Victorian Era in Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw" by: sbacha

• Illusions of the Future by: ShiMarSim?

• Why do we Keep Eating Fast Food by: Bryanna Espinosa

• Curley's wife: dangerous character or victim of loneliness by: its_myra

• The Cuban Embargo by: Ra7Mea7

• video games, grand theft auto, child psychology, and effects by: Owen RT

• Romeo & Juliet Essay by: M.I Stastny?

• What does Liberty mean to you? by: thunga snigdha

• Women Should Be Teachers by: Cvega

• Common Core Analysis by: jcuacuas

• pay the athletes by: babat

• No Es Bastante Mexicano, No Es Bastante Americano by: Mikayla connolly

• The Fate of the Führer by: Jacqueline Clayton

• Effects of Mass Incarceration on African American Communities by: Aboya

• Equality by: ananyags

• The Fault In Our Perceptions by: Priscilla O.?

• What is a Happy Genius? by: gloriouslyvain

• Wham! by: bunnybri7

Congratulations to everyone who entered! We'll be announcing the ten winners on Friday, May 19. 

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Hello, high school students! We've created a writing contest just for you.

You spend hours planning, drafting, editing, and completing essays in school. Now you have the opportunity to take those great creations and enter them into our 2016 high school essay contest.

The essays can be on any topic but they must have been written as part of a school assignment. We're looking for the most interesting, creative, engaging, and well-written essays.

Entry into the contest is free. 

Twenty finalists will be chosen and from this group ten winners picked.

Prizes:

• The twenty finalists will receive a Final Round Certificate.
• The ten winners will receive a Winner Certificate.
• The ten winners will have their essays included in an ebook anthology published on Amazon by Booksie Press. The ebook will be entitled The Best High School Essays of 2017.
• The winning essays will also be featured on the Booksie site.

Requirements:

• The essay must have been written as part of a school assignment.
• The essay can be any length and about any subject.
• The finalists and winners will have to validate they are high school students by having their high school teachers email Booksie confirmation that the essay was part of a school assignment in the 2016-2017 school year.

Are you a teacher?

• Use the essay contest to motivate your class to write. 
• Use our Booksie Schools Private Houses to get students excited to write and to foster collaboration within your class - It's Free.