Essay Winners
2024

Hurrah! Here they are... the essay winners 2024!

In this 9th annual essay competition on Kids World Travel Guide, we received 242 entries from 27 countries! Many students showed amazing talent and reading through your stories was such a pleasure!

Congratulations to our fabulous prize-winners! And a huge Thank You to ALL who participated this year and made this competition such a huge success! 

We are grateful that our competition inspired the creativity of so many young students who covered a wide range of topics under the 2024 theme: My Culture - Who I am.

From inspiring stories on personal achievements or favourite heroes to essays about countries, religion and popular food. There were many highly creative stories, some of them more critical and political, others more factual and some very imaginative.

As always it is such a motivation to see young talent grow over time! This year we had many students who not only entered for the first time with their high quality content but have been with us for several competitions! 

Who will be our 2024 winners?

This year we will add again several outstanding essays per category as "commended essays". You can be so very proud of your achievements too!

- Please bear with us, as all the essays and commended entries will be added to the site and linked from this page over the next few days.

Now drumroll please..... herewith we announce the 2024 winners for each category:

Essay Competition Winners
2024: 
'My Culture - Who I Am"

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runners-up

All winners will be notified via email about their success in the essay competition. Prizes and certificates will be despatched by the end of the month.

This year we again added a special mentions category for several outstanding essays of our finalists. 

Special Mention

• Angus Lansdown. "My Favourite Hero - Dr Richard 'Harry' Harris". Shore Preparatory School Sydney, Australia. English as home language.
• Mumudi Gajadeera. "Perahera". Horizon College International, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sinhalese as home language.
• Natalie Woo. "My Favourite Lantern Festival". Chij (Kellock) Primary School, Singapore. English and Mandarin as home languages.
• Mana Yamauchi. "The New Year". Minami Yurigaoka Elementary School, Kawasaki, Japan. Japanese as home language.
• Czarina Johann Cacayuran. "Holiday Festivities in the Philippines". Collinz International School, Selangor, Malaysia. Tagalog as home language
• Sarvinoz Abduvosiyeva. "My Favourite Holiday". Yuksalish School, Fergana, Uzbekistan. Uzbek as home language.

Age Category: 12 - 15 years

Winners

Runners-up

All winners will be notified via email about their success in the essay competition. Prizes and certificates will be despatched by the end of the month.

This year we again added a special mentions category for several outstanding essays of our finalists. 

Special Mention

• Aivind Huey Emannuel Belen. "A Lengthy Worthy Christmas". OB Montessori Center Santa Ana Manila, Philippines. Filipino as home language
• Emma Zuccharello. "My Own Family Culture". Scuola media Paolo VI, Tradate, Italy. Italian as home language.
  
• Chang Kah Xun. "New Year, New Hopes, and a Plate Full of Tradition!" Collinz International School, Selangor, Malaysia. Mandarin as home language.
• Hiranga Bandara Suraweera. "Perahera – My Hometown Pageant". Trinity College, Kandy, SriLanka. Sinhalese as home language.
• Zhibek Duishenkulova. "The culture of Kyrgyzstan through the centuries". V.I. Lenin School Bakai-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyz as home language.

Thank you for your wonderful essays! All these excellent essays will make a great reading and are an inspiration! Merit award certificates for "special mention" essays will be sent to the participants by the end of the month.

Keep honing your writing skills while exploring the world around you, there is nothing better than sharing ideas, experiences and insights!

Our competition stats and the infographic for the 2024 competition will be shown here by end of November 2024. Please watch this space....

Now, if you are interested in our previous competition winners, check out their essays in the last years' listings below:

Essay Competition Winners
2023: 
'Wildlife - Nature's Stars"

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

Age Category: 12 -15 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

Competition Winners 2022:
"My Life"

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

• Hiranga Bandara Suraweera: "My Life" (Trinity College Kandy, Sri Lanka) - English as Second Language, Home language Sinhala
  
• Naurah Afiqah Mohd Naseem: "A Day of My Life" (Sekolah Kebangsaan Putrajaya, Malaysia) - English as Second Language
• Daphne Tsu: "My School Life" (Macau Anglican College, China) - English as Second Language, Home Language Chinese
• Lizzie Xu: "The Flowing Rhythm of My Life" (St George’s British International School Rome, Italy) - English as Second Language, Home Language Chinese
• Kanyisola Omogbai: "Scrabble" (Topaz Comprehensive College Lagos, Nigeria) – English as First Language

Age Category: 12 - 15 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

• Aelfred Bowden: "Half a year in Japan" (Aberdeen/ UK) – English as First Language, Home Language Mandarin Chinese
• Pei Yuan Erica Yip: "Zongzi (dumpling)" (Foon Yew High School Johor Bahru, Malaysia) - Home Language Chinese
• Carys Lee Hui Ern: "My Life" (SMJK Chan Wa Seremban- Malaysia) – English as First Language
• Benedict Okoroafor: "Personal Activities" (Dority International School Abayi, Nigeria) – Home Language Igbo, English as Second Language
• Natalie Treu: "Life As A Resident Sibling" (Homeschooled/ USA) - English as First Language 

Competition Winners 2021:
"Hope"

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

• Carissa Handrian: "Beauty Within Our Archipelago" (Bina Bangsa School, Indonesia)
• Rithikha Shree Sivananthan: "My Favourite Quote: A Beautiful Mind Makes a Beautiful Life" (Pusat Tuisyen Alfa Matriks, Malaysia)
• Avni Singh: "Live in Hope, Love to Laugh" (Homeschooling, India)
• Haram Cho: "Power of Hope" (International School ParkCity Hanoi, Vietnam)
• Lizzie Xu: "My Eternal Hope" (St George's British International School Rome, Italy)

Age Category: 12 - 15 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

• Corrine Yang: "The Power of Hope" (Merivale High School, Canada)
• Cojitha Senanayake: "The Beach: My Haven, My Hope"(St Thomas' College, Sri Lanka)
• Angelos Kandilas: "Hope is the dream of an awake person" (Music School of Athens, Greece)
• Akriti Lamba: "Anne Frank - A Story Of Hope" (Our Lady Queen of the Missions School, India)
• Nischal Samrat: "Life, an Opportunity" (Sudarshan Vidya Mandir, India)

Competition Winners 2020:
"My Country"

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

• Ihor Kravchenko: "The Country of My Dreams" (Saint Joseph School, Lebanon)
  
• Srikoustubh Karanam: "My Country - Invincible India" (Overseas Family School, Singapore)
• Rizqin Nasuha Mohamed Ridzuan: "The Country of My Dreams" (Artistic Strategies Academy, Singapore)
• Parker Hadley: "Florida to Alaska: A Big Change" (Raven Homeschool, USA)
• Mitchell Kuhn: "Cape Vultures" (Homeschool, South Africa)
• Matthew Borg: "About My Home Country" (Stella Maris College, Malta)
• Leila El Baba: "Japan - The Country of My Dreams" (Šiauliai Centro Primary School, Lithuania) 
• Regina Chiu: "My Host Country Singapore" (Saint Joseph's Institution International School, Singapore)

Age Category: 12 -15 years

Winner

Runners-Up

Special Mention

• Luca Ciripitca: "Moldova" (Sutton Grammar School, UK)
• Ashley Tay: "My Unique Home" (CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School, Singapore)
• Alina Kiedos: "Romanies in Poland" (English Language Studio, Poland)
• Tana Tahira Valmond: "My Country Dominica" (Dominica Grammar School, Dominica)
• Muhammad Imad Khan: "Trees" (Islamia Children Academy, Pakistan)
• Pranavkrishna Bharanidharan: "The Crossroads of My Life" (California Montessori Project, USA) - What a wonderful achievement now in the Senior Category! Read his winning essay from 2019 in the Junior Category here.

Essay Competition Winners
2019: 'The Gift of Languages'

Age Category: 8-11 years

Winner

Runner-Up

Age Category 12-15 years

Winner

Runner-Up

Special Prize

Essay Competition Winners
2018: 'My Favourite Festival'

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runner-Up

Age Category: 12 -15 years

Winner

Runner-Up

We really enjoyed all your entries, so please do not give up on your dream if you want to become a writer but your essay was not chosen for publication this time.

Never give up! Keep on writing and honing your skills and join in our next competition! ... And for some of you we will have a special treat, so keep our site bookmarked and you might hear from us regarding a special publication of your entry on another page on this site. Cheers!

Essay Competition Winners
2017: 'My Favourite Holiday'

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runners-Up

Age Category: 12 -15 years

Winner

Runners-Up

All winners will be notified via email about their success in the essay competition to claim their prizes which then will be dispatched in the coming week. Congratulations again! Well done! Keep on writing!

Essay Competition Winners
2016: 'My Country'

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runners-up

Age Category: 12 - 15 years

Winner

Runner-up

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