2025 Teen Writing Contest Winners

Books by the winners of the 2025 Teen Writing Contest are now available on shelves at NVDPL! Stop by the teen area at your local library to read these compelling stories based on the theme "the butterfly effect."

The 2025 contest was open to students in grades 7–12 with original stories of up to 5,000 words. Winners were determined by a committee of library staff, teen leaders, and local authors. In addition to having their work professionally bound and added the libraries’ collections, winners were invited to a gala event at Lynn Valley Library.

Contest Winners

·         Overall Winner: “Extra Ordinary” by Lucille Friesen

·         Grades 7-9 First Place: “A Quiet Dream” by Mira Erozlu⁠

·         Grades 7-9 Honourable Mention: “At the Strike of the Hour” by Mallory Klausmayer⁠

·         Grades 10-12 First Place: “The Weight of What Was” by Keira Jaffer⁠

·         Grades 10-12 Honourable Mention: “A Coin, a Touch, A Change” by Rienaa Ganesan

Place a hold on any of these books and explore winning stories from previous years in our catalogue.

Interested in sharing your own story with the North Shore community? NVDPL and North Vancouver City Library (NVCL) will be hosting the contest again this summer! Stay tuned for details.