Geek Partnership Writing Contest Winning Entries
2026 Writing Contest Winners
Scott Imes Award Winner: Exercising Deamons by Lara Widman – Minneapolis, MN
Short Fiction – Open Division Winner: Stand by for Redeployment by Ashley Mantani – Highbury Grange, London, United Kingdom
Short Fiction – Youth 1 Winner: The Everywhere Cab by Clara Bartunek – Glendale Arizona
Short Fiction – Youth 2 Winner: Ghost Speaker by Sophia Helton – New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Poetry Division Winner: the Last Library on Earth by Lillian O’Donnell – Collinsville, Illinois
Graphic Comic Winner: The Day the Stars Spoke Back by Bill Nwonwu – Suleja, Niger
2025 Writing Contest Winners
Scott Imes Award Winner: “Urban Planning” by Catherin Beltran (Eagan, MN)
Short Fiction – Open Division Winner: “The Immortal Folly” by Irina Li (Plano, TX)
Short Fiction – Youth 1 Winner: “Interconnected” by Thomas Obilade (Belvidere, IL)
Short Fiction – Youth 2 Winner: “The Story of the Ballerina” by Chin Suevean (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
Poetry Division Winner: “What Remains” by Aashi Moola (Laurel, MD)
Graphic Comic Winner: “Cabin Fever” by Sophia Schulz (Coopersburg, PA)
2024 Writing Contest Winners
Scott Imes Award Winner: “The Trend Setter” by Scott Andrews (South Saint Paul, MN)
Open Division Winner: “A Little Alienation” by Anessa DeMers (Columbus, OH)
Youth 1 Short Fiction Winner: “Immortal” by Emily Baran (Boynton Beach, FL)
Youth 2 Short Fiction Winner: “Crowslayer” by Satya Ung (Southern Pines, NC)
Poetry Division Winner: “Dust, Dust, and Space” Jua Kim (Seoul, ROK)
There was no Graphic Comic Division entry this year.
2023 Writing Contest — no contest occurred in 2023.
2022 Writing Contest Winners
Graphic Novel: “Eyeshine”, by Kate Myers of North Apollo, Pennsylvania and Maddie Smoyer of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania
Poetry: “Changgui”, by Eunji Ryu, of Portland, Oregon
Short Story – Open: “Esha and the Echos” by Sarah Connell of Charlotte, NC
Short Story – Youth 1: “Unjustified Deaths” by Jennifer Kang of Mountain View, NC
Short Story – Youth 2: “Blink and You’ll Miss it” by Emma Briceno of Wake Forest, NC
Scott Imes Award: “Untouchable” by Katherine Duda, of Edina, MN
2021 Writing Contest Winners
Open: What Happens After You’re Vaccinated – Ashley Huang, Herndon VA
Youth 1: Pigs to the Slaughter – Abigail Durnin, Austin TX
Youth 2: Mr. Smiley – Luke Eaves, Laurinburg, NC
Poetry: The Forest Spirit – Yu Xin (Kylie) Wang, Orinda CA
Graphic Novel: The World to Come – Katie Firtch, Palo Alto Ca
2020 Writing Contest Winners
Youth 1 Submission: Familiar Feeling, by Alexia Zamora
Youth 2 Submission: The Clockmaker, by Mira Jiang
Poetry Submission: “Hush” by Ceclia Richardson
Open Submission: Thoughts of the Future, by Mer T McCauley; and
The Aniball, by Basin Hussain
Graphic Novel submission: The Store at the Edge of Space, by Paras Jain
Scott Imes Award: Sylvian, by Rain Patterson Owens
2019 Writing Contest Winners
Youth I: Elise Beishline for “Monsters in the Mind”
Youth II: Loryn Smith for “Immortalized in Metal”
Poetry: Ethan Beutel for “The Top”
Open: Patrick MacDonald for “I See Death”
Scott Imes Award: None
2018 writing contest winners
Graphic Novel: Edison Siow for Morning Call
Open Division: Greta Timmins for You Will Remain
Poetry: Olivia Campbell for Tranquility
Scott Imes Award: Cassidy Brzycki for The End of the World (Read: “par·ent·hood”)
Youth I: Poem Schway for Hero
Youth II: Lucia Paul for Dancing On Their Graves
2017 writing contest winners
Graphic Novel: Yap Yingtong and Shin Jiyeon for “500 Light Years to You”
Open Division: Ben Clement for “What’s Needed”
Poetry: Pat Harrigan for “Things Your Child Was Not Meant To Know”
Scott Imes Award: K. M. Clantoren for “Diogenes the Goat”
Youth I: Lucy Cross for “Gray”
Youth II: Hannah Staton for “Out of the Gates of Heaven, Locked in the Gates of Hell”
2016 writing contest winners
Graphic Novel: Mengshi Huang from Illinois for “Avenger of Dissemblance”
Open Division: Pat Harrigan from Minnesota for “Earthlings on Fire”
Poetry: David Lohrey from Florida for “Mindful”
Scott Imes Award: Jordan West from Minnesota for “Three Minute Mark”
Youth I: Breanna O’Bryan from Kentucky for “The Magic Pen”
Youth II: Jared Murphy from China for “The Tragedy of Senibor”