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! 

essay competition 2024 winners

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

essay 2024 pot of noodles

Runners-up

essay 2024 runner-up south africa
essay2024_japan2
essay 2024 seollal runner up

All winners will be notified via email about their success in the essay competition in the coming week. 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. Essays will be added and linked to this page by the end of the month.

Special Mention

my favourite hero essay 2024
  • Angus Lansdown. "My Favourite Hero - Dr Richard 'Harry' Harris". Shore Preparatory School Sydney, Australia. English as home language.
perahera junior 2024
  • Mumudi Gajadeera. "Perahera". Horizon College International, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sinhalese as home language.
myfavouritefestival essay 2024
  • Natalie Woo. "My Favourite Lantern Festival". Chij (Kellock) Primary School, Singapore. English and Mandarin as home languages.
japanese new year essay 2024
  • Mana Yamauchi. "The New Year". Minami Yurigaoka Elementary School, Kawasaki, Japan. Japanese as home language.
holidayfestivitiesphilippines_essay2024
  • Czarina Johann Cacayuran. "Holiday Festivities in the Philippines". Collinz International School, Selangor, Malaysia. Tagalog as home language
navrus essay 2024
  • Sarvinoz Abduvosiyeva. "My Favourite Holiday". Yuksalish School, Fergana, Uzbekistan. Uzbek as home language.

Age Category: 12 - 15 years

Winners

essay winner 2024 senior aivind
essay2024 pearloftheorientseas

Runners-up

essay2024_runnerup_ramlila
essay 2024 myidealculture

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

myownfamilyculture
  • Emma Zuccharello. "My Own Family Culture". Scuola media Paolo VI, Tradate, Italy. Italian as home language.
newyearnewhopes essay
perahera senior essay
  • Hiranga Bandara Suraweera. "Perahera – My Hometown Pageant". Trinity College, Kandy, SriLanka. Sinhalese as home language.
culture of kyrgyzstan
  • 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!

Commended essays will be added and linked to this page by the end of the month.

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, too. Please watch this space....

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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

being a regal bird

Runners-up

malaysian tiger
red panda

Special Mention

pangolin essay 2023 sri lanka
  • Mumudi Gajadeera: "Web". Horizon College International in Malabe/ Sri Lanka. English as Second Language. Home language is Sinhalese
rani speaks tiger essay
tragopan world of birds essay
my safari experience
wild dog essay
orang utan essay 2023
white rhino essay
  • Grace Young: "Dream". Currently World Schooling from Denver, Colorado/ USA. English as First Language. Other Home Language Spanish
asiatic lion essay 2023
favourite animal giraffe essay
story of a sea turtle
pouakai essay 2023
red pandas essay 2023

Age Category: 12 -15 years

Winner

ocean hatchlings

Runners-up

dolphin essay
podi aththa

Special Mention

save the planet
planet warriors essay porpoise
Kruger adventure lilac breasted roller
platypus essay
favorite animal lynx
white lions essay
wildlife conservation essay
cheetah essay 2023
pygmyforest
  • V.A.T. Mandini Samarawickrama: "Through the pygmy forests". Swarnamali Girls' College in Kandy/ Sri Lanka. English as Additional Language. Home Language is Sinhala.
deforestation essay
endangered madagascar
endangered animals essay

Competition Winners 2022:
"My Life"

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

Age Category: 12 - 15 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

Competition Winners 2021:
"Hope"

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

Age Category: 12 - 15 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

Competition Winners 2020:
"My Country"

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runners-up

Special Mention

Age Category: 12 -15 years

Winner

Runners-Up

Special Mention

Essay Competition Winners
2019: 'The Gift of Languages'

Age Category: 8-11 years

Winner

Zachary Ming Zhi Tan from St. Joseph Institution International Elementary School in Singapore

'My Journey to Explore the Gift of the Chinese Language'

Runner-Up

Emily Bates from Wales/UK (Homeschooled)

'My Language Adventures'

Age Category 12-15 years

Winner

Tristan Kuhn from South Africa (Home educated)

'For the Love of Linguae'

Runner-Up

Lana Labudović from Ladimirevci Primary School in Croatia

'The Beauty of Languages'

Special Prize

Javier Yung from Chung Cheng High School in Singapore 

'Si+nglish= ...English?'

Essay Competition Winners
2018: 'My Favourite Festival'

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Vidhyuth Viswanathan from Urbana Sugarloaf Elementary School, USA

'Diwali Festival of Lights'

Read his essay here.

Runner-Up

Pranavkrishna Bharanidharan from California Montessori Project, India/USA

'Diwali'

Read his essay here.

Age Category: 12 -15 years

Winner

Nuthara Karunarathna from Lyceum International School, Sri Lanka

'Vesak Day'

Read her essay here.

Runner-Up

Javier Yung from Singapore

'Moon Cake Festival'

Read his essay here.

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

Matilda Rumball-Smith from New Zealand, Ngunguru School

'New Zealand - Aoteorea'

Read the award-winning essay here

Runners-up

Kundana Panuganti from the USA, Eason Elementary School

'My Country India'

Poem Schway from the USA, Christa McAuliffe School

'Austria - The Wonder'

Read her essay here.

Age Category: 12 - 15 years

Winner

Sree Panuganti from the USA, Timberline School

'Incredible India'

Read the award-winning essay here

Runner-up

Ana Sofia Moreno from South Africa, Curro Schools

'My Country South Africa'


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