Génie de la Liberté d'Augustin Dumont, Doriane Lacroix-Tsarantanis
Welcome to the 2019 edition of NUHA's annual writing competition!
Whether you are from Paraguay or Pakistan, Poland or The Philippines, we want to hear what YOU have to say about 'education'. The competition has been established as an international platform to debate issues of education and to provide an opportunity for authors to be published and to develop their self-confidence. Find out more here. See below the winners of the 2019 edition, and here for the statement from our fantastic Jury.
Entries in alphabetical order:
Young Writers Category (10–14)
- Abdulsalam, Timi (Nigeria): You won't tell God -- Winner!
- Amson, Maria (UK): Wanted
- Avery, Kate (UK): Observations of an Endangered Creature
- Bamidele, Praise (Nigeria): It's In Your Hands!
- Bliss, Tage (USA): A Splash of Cerise
- Bonuah, Christa (UK): Never let go -- Shortlisted!
- Bowles, Amy (France): Fighting For Survival Of The Majestic White Bengal Tiger
- Bradley, Cicely (UK): Death by Madness
- Dsouza, Reia (India): Choices
- Graciela, Vania (Indonesia): Metanoia
- Gray, Tara (UK): Nearly midnight
- Goh, Tiffanie (Singapore): Love, Luke
- Gulati, Anika (India): Children are little geniuses!
- Heaton, Emily (UK): Falling in the Lights
- Ho, Leilia (Malaysia): entity unknown<error>
- Horder-Gouldsbrough, Lily (Belgium): The White Tiger
- Iyer, Sahana (India): Renaissance of Nature
- Kempster, Jessica (UK): They told me to run
- Lahiri-Clements. Koda (USA): Two Year Teaser
- Laue, C (Hong Kong): The Tale of Hong Kong
- Mannall, Felicity (UK): The Scars To Prove It
- Martínez, Yazmín (USA): Hope
- Morton, David (USA): The Hunt
- Sanganee, Elina (UK): The Building
- Schreuder, Claudia (UK): The Lights
- Sharma, Scarlett (UK): Paint and Punishment
- Smith, Ella (UK): Spectate and speculate
- Szwast, Xenia (USA): Hands on learning will save you from living in your parent’s basement
- Thee, Sim Ling (Singapore): Fears
- Verzhbitsky, Katerina (UK): Knowledge kills
- Yung, Javier (Singapore): Colours: Banal or Bright? -- Second Place!
- Yung, Javier (Singapore): Surreal
Youth Category (15-18)
- Abdulrazak, Barakat (Nigeria): The great things about social media was how it gave a voice to the voiceless
- Abdulsalam, Ope (Nigeria): Education Is No Longer The Way! -- Winner!
- Abolare, Al-Ameen (Nigeria): Got Enough Craze?
- Afolami, Ifeoluwa (Nigeria): Silent Screams
- Afure, Ewomazino (Nigeria): Curiosity Kills Cats, Not Humans
- Afure, Ewomazino (Nigeria): Now We Can Tell The World Our Stories
- Afure, Ewomazino (Nigeria): Our Fishing Nets Are Torn
- Agbo, Sylvia (Nigeria): I have no special talent. I am passionately curious about it.
- Aloke, Ananya (India): Curiosity: A state of mind
- Bakpo, Burabari (Nigeria): Just Curious -- Shortlisted!
- Basheer, Waasia (Saudi Arabia): You Already Have What You Are Looking For!
- Bond, Caitlin (UK): The Nightmarish Dreamworld of Social Media
- Cartledge, Jed (UK): Over-Humility
- Christabel, Annabel Theodora (Indonesia): Talent is not enough -- Second Place!
- Chowdhury, Najibah (UK): Life In The Digital Age: The Impact Of Social Media
- Durnay, Emma (USA): Dedicated to Curiosity
- Dzoguji, Chiamaka (Nigeria): “The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people”- Jon Ronson
- Egbele, Theresa (Nigeria): Social Media And The Voiceless Ones
- Eugenia, Callista (Indonesia): Flabbergasted
- Gunavan, Grave (Indonesia): I Have No Special Talents?
- Jahura, Anesu (South Africa): The Power of Independence
- Jasperson, Dessi (USA): A Picture Really is Worth a Thousand Words
- Kohli, Charu (India): Social Media: A Platform
- Kurji, Sureya (UK): Children’s Innocence Vs Children’s Empowerment
- Lang, Mikayla (Nicaragua): We Are Created With Talent
- Lee, Charlotte (UK): Talent: A relative theory
- Lily, Rosemill (India): What is wrong with it and Why?
- Lim, Yoonjae (South Korea): The time we need retooling
- Lintern, Meg (UK): Social Media: The People's Platform
- Liu, Mia (Canada): To what extent can protest be justified?
- Menon, Uma (USA): A Hand in Protest
- Miranda-Benitez, Sergi-Andre (UK): Let Me Swim -- Shortlisted!
- Miranda-Benitez, Sergi-Andre (UK): Midnight coffee
- Miranda-Benitez, Sergi-Andre (UK): Passion and talent
- Miranda-Benitez, Sergi-Andre (UK): The right problem
- Nawaniv, Soham (Spain): Catalonia’s independence movement: How did we get here?
- Obasi-Igwe, Comfort (Nigeria): Is Liberty Possible In A Totalitarian System Of Government?
- Oguntula, Jesutooni (USA): The Eye Is Indeed A Window
- Olaoba, Tomiwa (Nigeria): You have no special skill or talent. You’re only passionately curious. -- Shortlisted!
- Paliwal, Ishita (India): Sculpting For A Finer Tomorrow
- Robertson, Rachel (UK): Another bring in the Wall?
- Rubendra, Thusharani (UK): The Curiosity of Talent... -- Shortlisted!
- Rushton, Ciara (UK): The power of the internet
- Sharma, Madhur (India): A New Way To Solve Problems And Find Answers
- Sharma, Vidushi (India): Deceived Minds
- Solway, Catherine (UK): Maybe We're Both Wrong
- Sunner, Rajvinder (UK): Social Media: How it provided the voiceless with a voice
- Uhl, Kaden (Nicaragua): Learning from the Best: The Secrets to Success
- Woka, Chiziyara (Nigeria): Passionate Curiosity – The Key To Success
Adult Category (19+)
- Aberle, Jodie (Australia): Be You
- Abolare, Al-ameen (Nigeria): The Asymptote
- Abugri, Solomon (Ghana): Conflict of the Soul
- Achary, Neil (UK): Become someone different. Get off the merry-go-round
- Adebusuyi, Adebukola (Nigeria): What I Am: The Driving Force, The Very Essence Of Life’s Purpose And Fulfillment
- Aggarwal, Jyoti (USA): Honesty Per Square Foot
- Akpan, Udeme (Nigeria): Hate: An Inevitable Emotion
- Akpan, Udeme (Nigeria): The Complexity Of Man
- Ahmad Daud, Nurul Nadiah (Malaysia): The Art of Nurturing Self Identity
- Alam, Navid (Bangladesh): Conflicts and Stories
- Alawonde, Theophilus (Nigeria): Elementarily wrong, my dear reader!
- Alix, Amanda (USA): The Greatest Stories Ever Told
- Alkhawaja, Khaled (Bahrain): Buddhism, Hate, Politics and Love
- Allende González, Carlos (USA): The road to happiness is paved with sorrow: Why we need conflict in stories, explained by neuroscience
- Andrew, Anesha (Canada): A Story without Conflict is like a Plant without Water: It is Necessary.
- Angel, Simone (Belize): A different kind of twitter
- Anike, Amarachi (Nigeria): To Know or To Become -- Shortlisted!
- Anoemuah, Oluwapelumi (Nigeria): A Piece of the Puzzle
- anon: The True Nature of Stories - An Expression of Experience
- Anumula, Kanchana Swarnalatha (India): Conflicts - The Necessary Ripples in Life
- Anyanwu, Mathias (Nigeria): Seeing stories in things far from us
- Anyanwu, Mathias (Nigeria): The Structure of True Hate
- Anyika, Uche (Nigeria): The Concept of Dreams
- Arif, Ayesha (Pakistan): "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" Henry Ford -- Shortlisted!
- Arthur, Emmanuel (Ghana): The World Is A Story
- Atere, Gbemisola (Nigeria): A Soiled Hand Equals a Soiled World
- Attaboh, Usman (Nigeria): "If There's No Conflict, There Are No Stories Worth Telling – Or Reading"
- Auckel, Leena (Mauritius): Camouflage
- Avshalumova, Tamara (USA): Golden Middle
- Ayegba, Emmanuel (Nigeria): Letter to Teachers
- Ayegba, Emmanuel (Nigeria): The Struggles of our Life
- Ayegba, Emmanuel (Nigeria): Three Haters
- Ayegba, Emmanuel (Nigeria): School: A Place to Loosen your Mind
- Barnes, Andrea (USA): Are Your Ideas More Important Than Others’?
- Barrows, Jaclyn (USA): Conflict as Catalyst for The Story
- Basheer, Waasia (Saudi Arabia): Be Who You Weren't
- Belliones, Lea (Philippines): Humans Are Changing
- Benitez Ponce, Alberto Fabian (Mexico): Educate against Morals
- Bobeda, Amy (USA): Knowing Nothing, is Everything
- Bossman, Blessing (Nigeria): Know Your Why, What, and How
- Brennan, Erin (Northern Ireland, UK): Breeding Hate
- Brown, Cath (UK): I Am What I Am
- Brown, Patricia (UK): Sparks, Explosion, Mushroom Cloud: The Story of Hate
- Browne, Marguerite Diane (Jamaica): We cannot escape what we are; we should not have to
- Bruggeman, Eric (USA): What I am!
- Bryan, Vicky (UK): The Foundations of our Oscillating Ramifications in Desires
- Bu Asalli, Mariam (Bahrain): Our True Selves
- Bulat, Nataliia (Ukraine): The Conflicts of Our Lives
- Bun, Adriana (Romania): A story about searching and untruth
- Buthelezi, Mthobisi (South Africa): People Change, It's Called Life
- Buthelezi, Mthobisi (South Africa): Conflicts Are Stories
- Caya, Jeremy (Philippines): River of Life
- Celentano, Tina (USA): Wild Horses
- Chauhan, Divyanjali (India): Connection Needs To Be Remembered
- Chawki, Mehdi (Morocco): Jellyfish was the answer
- Cherf, James (USA): What I Want?
- Cheung, Paula (Canada): An Existential Child
- Chimedza, Tinashe (Zimbabwe): Hope Springs Eternal: Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk
- Coster, Charlotte (UK): For those on fast horses, jump to the end
- Cuppy, Carol (USA): No Stories Worth Telling; No Life Worth Living
- Dane, Michelle (USA): We Are Not The Sum Of Our Past
- Daro, Irene (Philippines): Conflict is a Story Itself
- De Leon, Alexia Joyce (Philippines): The Good Side of Conflicts -- Shortlisted!
- Delfino, Jessica (USA): Conflict May Be A Great Impetus For Story Creation, But It Is A Terrible Impetus For Humanity
- Deshmukh, Snehal (India): Killing the Panopticon in Us
- D'Hippolito, Joseph (USA): The Eternal Tension
- Doalty Brophy, Kevin (Ireland): Fears of Becoming a Non-Person
- Dorsey, Joanne (India): What's In a Name?
- Eamey, Harry (UK): Being
- Echebiri, Stanley (Nigeria): "La haine attire la haine." (Hate attracts hate)
- El-Boustani, Rima (Poland): Immersion
- El-Boustani, Rima (Poland): Life as Evolution
- El-Boustani, Rima (Poland): The Fastest Horse
- El-Boustani, Rima (Poland): The Method of Hate
- Emate, Thompson (Nigeria): Conflict: A Precursor to History
- Faruna, Abdullah (Nigeria): Tomorrow is Another Person
- Fellowes, Marianne (UK): Ask or Do?
- Fox,Nancy (Malta): Personal Upgrades
- Gagliardi, Peter (USA): In American Politics, Hate Attracts Hate as the Nation Disintegrates and Drifts Towards Civil War
- Garcia, Guillermo (Venezuela): Although I Don’t Hate Anyone, Surely Someone Hates Me (Hate is The Most Efficient Human Factory of Unhappiness)
- Gass, Garrett (USA): A Midwest View
- Gaur, Chetna (India): To the Unknown You
- Ghahremanzadeh, Reza (Northern Ireland, UK): Not Just A Four-Letter Word
- Ghazal, Nafeesa (India): Hate Trap
- Gilbert, David (USA): "Who Are You?" Asks Your Inner Child
- G. M., Imesha (Sri Lanka): Dying to meet the real me...
- Godwin, Mercy (Nigeria): An Odysseus' Journey
- Goff, Jason (USA): Past Time
- Gotera, Adelina (Canada): “I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” – Michel Foucault. Discuss.
- Gravett, Debbie (South Africa): Change How We Educate
- Grochot dos Santos, Lucas (Brazil): At the Heart of Conflict
- Grochot dos Santos, Lucas (Brazil): Of Being Stuck in Place
- Gudimella, Mrinalini (India): A journey into the 'Self'
- Guerrero, Faustino (USA): Utopia Now!
- Gupta, Neelu (India): “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” – Henry Ford.
- Gurbuz, Ozge (Turkey): The Power of Stories
- Hamid, Amir (Myanmar): The Words
- Hardy, Verbieann (USA): Contented Customers – Only Until The Next Gadget Appears!
- Harrypersaud, Annesa (Guyana): Purpose-driven generation
- Hartshorn, Joseph (UK): The Symbiosis of Conflict and Imagination
- Hasan, Rakibul (Bangladesh): Worrisome Wonder
- Higgins, Rebekka (USA): The Omnipresence of Conflicts
- Ho, Leilia (Malaysia): eloquent bliss.
- Idaraesit, Bill (Nigeria): The Duality of Self
- Igbe, Silas (Nigeria): Trust Your Instincts – Forget Their Opinions
- Ikang, Umutu (Nigeria): A Vicious Cycle
- Imtiaz, Aysha (Pakistan): The Two Cents of the 1%
- Jain, Nikita (India): If You Cannot Love, Don't Hate!
- Jain, Nita (USA): Gut Instinct: Invisible but Indelible -- Shortlisted!
- Jamani, Ufuoma (Nigeria): The Awakening
- James, Michael (Nigeria): Learning To Become Who We Are Is Not The Main Interest In Life
- John, Bindu (India): Of Stories Worth Telling
- Jones, Emma (UK): Shades of Rainbow
- Jung, Mariela (Brazil): Human Being, Human Becoming
- Kakkattil, Habeeb Moosa (India): No Conflict, No Life
- Kamada, Laurel (USA): Our Multiple Identities
- Kamenya, Michael (Kenya): The Ugly Truth About How Hate Attracts Hate
- Kanunova, Nigina (Tajikistan): The Immortal Evil of Humanity
- Kaoma, Precious Betty (Zambia): From the writer's perspective
- Kapadia, Megha (India): Who Am I?
- Kapugeekiyana, Piyumi (Sri Lanka): What we need to ask ourselves
- Khan, Stoori (Pakistan): Yesterday VS Today
- Kharbithai, Dafanie (India): Absolute
- Kharel, Saprunika (Nepal): Conflict: If nothing else, it's poetic
- Kim, Lyudmila (Uzbekistan): Ford's "faster horses" Reveal the Buying Psychology Secret
- Kingston, James (UK): Losing My Identity
- Kingston, Samantha (USA): Henry Ford, a Visionary of More Than Just Automobiles
- Ko, Helen (USA): Conflict Makes The Character
- Ko, Helen (USA): To Live Is To Change
- Kölzow, Ally (UK): What Am I?
- Koman, Savio (India): Hate- The Enemy Within
- Koster, Mira (USA): Moral Responsibility and Becoming Someone New
- Kreeft, Corina (Netherlands): What about XXL stories?
- Kuenyefu, Paul Edem (Ghana): Seeking validation may kill your ambition
- Kuku, Melody (Nigeria): Innovation Without Justifications
- Law, Christine (UK): A blackcountry lass
- Lawrence, Jane (UK): The Compelling Nature of Conflict
- Lee, Christine (USA): The Chessboard
- Levy, Carly (USA): The Necessary Conflicts of an Unfair Life
- Lewis, Christina (USA): Hardship and Prosperity: How Conflict Enriches Our Lives
- Lipsky, Amy (USA): Dialectical
- López-Goicoechea, Mario (UK): La haine n'attire pas la haine, elle l'engendre
- Maikarfi, Francis (Nigeria): "Blah, blah blows the light out"
- Mandi, Sisasenkosi (Zimbabwe): Courage to Break the Mould
- Mandras, Gabriela (Romania): On Hatred
- Manmohan, Santhosh (India): How ‘Right’ is Michel Foucault?
- Marie, Jean (USA): Born Into A World Of Conflict
- Martinez, Angela (USA): The Line in the Sand
- Mason, Celestine (Brazil): Love breeds Love
- Mathur, Anshu (India): Be Water, My Friend
- Matthews, S. (Scotland, UK): Remembrance
- Mavata, Nomanna (South Africa): To be Human is to Grow
- Mazucca, Laura Marie (USA): You Are Who You Think You Are!
- Mbiza, Mduduzi (South Africa): He Never Knew Who He Was
- MacFarland, Martha (USA): Blooming in the Charred Rubble
- McGinnis, Robert (USA): A Brief Article on the Apocryphal Henry Ford
- Mehra, Sahas (India): Don't Fear Life
- Meier, Julie (Canada): Beyond the Horses
- Merrick, Deborah (USA): A Perspective on Conflict
- Mhango, Stephanie (Zambia): Individuation and Self-refusal: the struggle for identity
- Mihaylov, Genadiy (Bulgaria): It feels nice, doesn't it?
- Miller, Joy (USA): Beyond Boundaries
- Miller, Semerete Yesus (Tobago): The Beauty Of Knowing Who I Am
- Miller, Semerete Yesus (Tobago): The Dynamics of Hate
- Mirpuri, Mukesh (India): Hate - A Contagious Disease
- Mirpuri, Mukesh (India): Conflicts are the essence of stories
- Mitchell, Robert (Jamaica): And That's the Problem I Have with History
- Mitevska, Viktorija (Macedonia): The Meaning of Perfection
- Moreno, Amy, B. (Scotland, UK): Telling Stories in Time of Conflict
- Morton, Cathy (USA): The Core of All Things Real
- Mukherjee, Subhodeep (India): Victor or Victim?
- Mulyangote, Lizza (Malaysia): Self-Awareness First
- Munshi, Naman (India): Heart of the Story – Conflict
- Murguía, Romina (Uruguay): The two selves dilemma
- Murguía, Pamela (Uruguay): Our Life is Mirror
- Muse, Daniel (Kenya): Deep Within The Scars -- Shortlisted!
- Muse, Daniel (Kenya): The Strongest Men on Earth
- Naira, Daniela (UK): What are you?
- Nakawooya, Gloria (Uganda): The Silver Lining in Conflict
- Nawras, Nofel (UK): The First and Last Story
- Ndipmong-uwem, Isaiah (Nigeria): They Would Say Faster Horses -- Shortlisted!
- Nezhni, Crista (USA): Mapping Out the End Product: Ourselves
- Nielsen, Jessica (Canada): Never The Same Again
- Nichols, Kevin (USA): Tender-Hearted and Hard-Hearted We Are
- Nichols, Kevin (USA): The Contender Blues
- Njuguna, Benny (Kenya): The Functions of Conflict in a Story
- Nwaozuzu, Vivian (Nigeria): The Conflict in Human Life
- Nwokeji, Bianca (Nigeria): Beautiful Tales of Incumbent Conflicts
- Nwokorie, Timothy (Nigeria): The Realities Of Transition And Transformation
- Nyengera, Kudzanayi (South Africa): 'Become someone else that you were not in the beginning.' - Foucault.
- Nyirongo, Fiske (Zambia): This Is Not A Game.
- Obini, Nwonye (Burkina Faso): Life is Conflict
- Oboh, Racheal (Nigeria): 'Become someone else that you were not in the beginning.' - Foucault.
- Ojedokun, Olubukola (Nigeria): On My Way To Make It In Life
- Oke, Babawale (Nigeria): The Journey To Self-Discovery: The Pains And Gains Of Life
- Okenwa, Precious (Nigeria): Our lives matter too
- Okhato, Maureen (Kenya): "[...] The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not at the beginning." – Michel Foucault
- Olaoba, Tomiwa (Nigeria): God, give me a harder conflict
- Olawoore, Roseline (Nigeria): Humans: Limited Visions with Unlimited Changes
- Ologe, Funmilayo (Nigeria): Expanding And Persuading The Mind
- Olyaoye, Olajide (Nigeria): Conflicts and the World
- Omoke, Jared (Kenya): Conflict: The Basis of a Story
- Onwumere, Odimegwu (Nigeria): Human Ignorance
- Onwumere, Odimegwu (Nigeria): Importance of User Research
- Onwumere, Odigmegwu (Nigeria): We All Are Battling
- Onwumere, Odigmegqu (Nigeria): Different Behavioural Outcomes
- Orimolade, Harrison (Nigeria): All Black, No Cream - Hatred Breeds Hatred
- Ortega, Joanna (USA): What Am I? Just Another Changing Human!
- Orton, Marisa (France): Write me a story
- Osisiogu, Chibuike (Nigeria): Custodians
- Pastrana, Francisco (USA): Born American Again
- Pastrana, Francisco (USA): Hate Not To Be Me
- Patel, Rima (India): From the Universe to Ourselves
- Petrak, Ani (Czech Republic): If wishes were horses, then what would beggars ride?
- Poliakova, Yuliia (Australia): The Price of Conflict
- Pressnall, Maya (Germany): Does Hatred Have the Upper Hand?
- Pressnall, Maya (Germany): Discord Is Not the Only Driving Force
- Prosper, Stephen (USA): T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E.
- Puckett, Jace (USA): Finding "Me"
- Puthur Venkataraman, Anupama (USA): Want Transformational Innovation? Do Not Listen to Customers!
- Radhakrishnan, Gomathi Sridevi (India): Love overshadows everything
- Railton, Olivia Grace (UK): Ignorance and Want are Grown Up Now
- Ram, Sivasubramanian (India): The Color of Blood is Love
- Ramachandran, Sandhya (India): Conflict – An inseparable part of modern society!
- Ranieri, Jason (USA): The Betterment of Humankind
- Reeves, Valerie (USA): Childhood’s End: A New Beginning
- Reimers, Robert (USA): Do It Your Way
- Reittie, MisIvy (USA): The Unseen Truth
- Rex Otang, Agbor (Cameroon): Her principal priority
- Rioflorido, Joseph Ryan (Philippines): No Conflict in the Clouds
- Roberts, Chrystel (Zambia): Utopia: A Perfectly Boring World
- Rock, Chris (UK): All shall be well
- Rodriguez, Krystal (USA): Do Not Be Yourself
- Roy, Chantal (Canada): Know Yourself
- Ryan-Webster, Kesia (USA): Photographs: We Are All Humans Becoming
- Saeed, Hanifa (Pakistan): Conflict: a Bitter Reality of Life
- Sahu, Anima (USA): Finding our Inherent Being
- Salami, Oluwatobi (Nigeria): Are you who you are? -- Winner!
- Salih, Chiman (Iraq): The Time to Scream
- Samson, Oghenemaro (Nigeria): Innovation & Customer’s Insights: Coming Together, A Beginning; Working Together, A Success! Henry Ford’s Success and Failure
- Santamarina, Alani (USA): Conflict, Change, and Meaning
- Sapepe, Caryl (Philippines): How Conflict Affects Life Stories
- Sapone, Luca (Italy): The ‘Apathy Issue’ and Faster Horses
- Sekondi, Emmanuel (Nigeria): “If there’s no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – or reading”
- Shah, Neelam (UK): Michel Foucault's Theory on Knowledge and Truth
- Shaik, Jakeer (India): My New Identity
- Shaik, Reenad (Saudi Arabia): A story that breathes
- Shoukat, Sara (Pakistan): The Reason We Hate
- Sibisi, Nqobile (South Africa): The Metamorphosis of Identity: For the caterpillar never knows it is a butterfly! -- Shortlisted!
- Sillah, Fatima (Nigeria): Uncaged: The Beginning Of A New Dawn
- Simmons James, Solace (Nigeria): La Haine Attire La Haine -- Third Place!
- Simonde, Indana (UK): An Objectve Argument Against Racism
- Singh, Divya (Malaysia): Are you listening? Really?
- Sizemore, Robin (USA): "Where There Is Ruin There Is Hope For A Treasure"
- Smith, Timothy (USA): In the Pursuit of Real or Perceived Excellence
- Somani, Neha (India): How Good is Conflict?
- Sprague, Kristy Cameron (USA): The Yin and Yang of Hatred
- : The Guidebook of Hide and Seek
- Spencer, TrevaJeanice (USA): A Story Worth Telling
- Stone, Shannon (USA): Not happily ever after?
- Stoto, Belinda (USA): I Was Looking For You
- Szigeti, Boglàrka (Hungary): Can I not hate back?
- Szigeti, Boglàrka (Hungary): The only one that walks beside me is my dream -- Shortlisted!
- Teziev, Irbek (Tajikistan): Where Can I Find Plywood for My Airplane?
- Thornhill, Latesha (USA): Foucault and Educational Transformation
- Trahan, Cole (USA): Milestones Shmilestones. I'll Always Be Somebody.
- Tran, Noemi (France): Penniless Thoughts
- Treat, Austin (USA): It's Deadly to be Trans in America
- Uchegbu, Chinaza (Nigeria): "The main interest in life is to become someone else you were not in the beginning" - Foucault
- Ugoh, Emenike (Nigeria): I Know Who I Am, But It Doesn't Matter
- Ugoh, Emenike (Nigeria): They Refuse To Bend Until They Break
- Uzfar, Shariz (Sri Lanka): "La haine attire la haine" (Hate attracts hate)
- Valentor, Christine (USA): Conflict Vs. Peace: Why People Cannot Handle Serenity
- Valentor, Christine (USA): Hold Your Horses! Henry Ford and the Infinite Exploration
- Vallard, Nina (UK): Give That Horse A Rest
- Vashishtha, Charu (India): A Story Without Conflicts
- Velpula, Sundhar (India): Transforming into a better version of me
- Vidosavljevic, Ana (Serbia): Who am I?
- Vivek, Anila (India): Evolution of a human being
- Vuong, Alice (Canada): Who You Are Now Is Not As Important As The Person You Can Become
- Vyas, Shubhda (India): Nature Versus Nurture
- Wamae, Tracy (Kenya): Thoughts of a Utopian
- Wamuni, Sharon (Kenya): A Transformation of the Mind; the Vital Key of Life
- Wanjiku, Evah (Kenya): Conflict and Storytelling -- Shortlisted!
- Wanjiku, Evah (Kenya): The Burden Of Progress
- Wessels, Danelle (UK): La Haine Attire La Haine
- Westbrook, Lynne (USA): Let Them Eat Cake
- White, Ronald L. (USA): The Love of Hate
- Winter, James (UK): Conflict or No Conflict? That is the Question!
- Wyman, Francesca (USA): Discovering "What I Am"
- Yong, Ivan (Malaysia): Fordism: The Ubiquitous Approach to Fulfilling Your Customers’ Needs
- Zagaynova, Katerina (Russia): Exploring The Horizons of One’s Self – Without Being Lost
- Zapiain, Andrea (Mexico): Real People
- Zhong Zhi, James Lim (Singapore): Being and Becoming
- Zhong Zhi, James Lim (Singapore): Innovation and Ford
- Zhong Zhi, James Lim (Singapore): The Nature of Hate -- Second Place!
- Zhong Zhi, James Lim (Singapore): What are Conflict and Stories