The 2024 OPA Youth Poetry Contest winners were published in the latest Cascadia anthology! Each student received a cash award and a copy of the printed anthology.
Kindergarten — Fifth Grade
Elijah Andersen – “The Water”
Keane Cordalis – “April”
Lexi Miller – “Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring”
Liam Avery Finn Nelson – “May Day”
Eli Stier – “Beach”
Jack Story – “Flowers in the Sky”
Fox Tindall – “The Beaver”
Ella Welder – “Autumn Harvest”
Olivia Wielkopolski – “words”
Kaiya Williams – “The Lights in Our Hills”
Sixth — Eighth Grade
Kai Bixby – “Sickness”
Murphy Buchanan – “Forests”
Ella Crater – “Change Worthy”
Milo Ford – “Morning”
Molly Grubbs – “Possibility”
James Hallock – “The Duel”
Grant Heeter – “Shasta Gravel Hugger”
Bailey Hostetler – “Wind”
Alice Springstead – “In Waves”
Kam Taylor – “My Pencil”
Alistair Wood – “The Presence”
Ninth — Twelfth Grade
Layla C. Anderson – “The Never Ending Dream About Time”
Layci Bartlett – “You Will”
Claire Hunsberger – “The Prickly Pear”
Emma Jasmin – “The Weight Of it All”
Sophia Lu – “Even Though”
Isabel Milla – “America’s Knife”
Emilia Molloy – “Aloud”
Amanda Nairn – “2 a.m.”
Nesara Shree – “The “Up””