First Place For Bensalem In National Young Writers Contest

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA —The competition was stiff.

Across the country, 16,000 entries were received for the Young Writers Twisted Tales writing contest. But Bensalem High School came out on top.

School officials said that Bensalem High School students in Miss Eisenmann’s 2022-2023 English classes were recently honored for their hard work, creativity, and imagination in the Young Writers Twisted Tales writing contest.

Besides taking first place, the high school earned the Young Writers Award of Excellence for having the most unique and captivating stories over all other school entries.

"This is a major honor for our students and Bensalem High School alike," school officials said. "On behalf of Young Writers, BHS was sent a beautiful award that will be displayed in the school."

Young Writers Twisted Tales is a mini-saga writing contest students entered in October 2022 in Eisenmann’s class.

Students were given the topic of looking at a villain from another angle and writing from their perspective in 100 words or less.

All writers were given the freedom to choose their villain and the situation they wanted to write
about, such as the origin story of the villain, what they do on a regular day, or why the villain thinks they are doing the right thing.

Students wrote about villains from Disney movies, TV shows, books, video games, and even villains in real life.

Out of 121 student entries from Eisenmann’s class, 106 student entries were accepted by Young
Writers.

Of those 106 stories, 59 students were then published in the Young Writers literary magazine, school officials said.

Eisenmann thanked all of her students for "stepping out of their comfort zone" to enter the contest.

"This was a fun and engaging contest that gave students the opportunity to push their thinking outside of the box," she said. "This contest is always an amazing opportunity for students to get published and show off their brilliant minds."

The published students are:

Lillian Alger-McCaffrey, Ella Alleva (Class of 2023), Adham Ammar, Raven Baker, Logan Bauer, Addison Bock, Tuana Cakir, Jessica Canizares (Class of 2023), Shu-Chen Chiang, Abigail Clark, Catherine Cosden, Madelyn Cowell, Viktoriia Daniuk, Elena Drinhouser, Alyssa Durkalec, Kadin Eloi, Luke Factor, Caleb Falade, Samirah Feliciano, Andrew Gasper, Jasmine George, Efrain Gonzalez, Lisbeth Gonzalez- Altamirano, Haley Groves, Kelis Harvey, Ibiza Houck,
Musa Jakypbek, Danny Klein, Emily Le, Anthony Lineberger (Class of 2023), Ambrielle McCoy, Giovanni Micciolo, Jessica Ortega, Alma Padilla, Meet Patel, Sophia Peacock, Shiloh Peters, Brianna Pezza, Nick Plata, Alla Pogoretskaya, Yasir Port, Charlotte Querin, Kaitlynne Raymond, Lainey Rossiter, Kendra Rush, Lea Scott, Janicia Shaw, Michael Sit, Piper Strunk, Madison Thackeray, Ivy Tran, Mainor Villanueva, Ahmir Warrington, Madison Weldon, Christopher White, Maya White, Regis Williams, Steven Wise, and Max Wiza.