Essay Competition
Winners
2022

Here they are... the essay competition winners 2022!

In the seventh annual essay competition on Kids World Travel Guide, we received over 130 entries from over 21 countries and students entered with a wide range of home languages - simply awesome!

Congratulations to our fabulous prize-winners! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful essays! And a huge Thank You to ALL who participated this year and again made this competition such a huge success! 

2022 was a more cheerful year for many of us, though looming economic crises and also Covid still had a huge impact on many. We are grateful that our competition inspired the creativity of young students who covered a  wide range of topics under the 2022 theme: My Life.

From motivational tips on how to lead a happy life to insightful personal life stories as well as highly creative and imaginative stories. Again, it was amazing to witness how many of you went out of your comfort zones and shared their own opinions so compassionately, motivating each other and learning about their own identity.

We have very much enjoyed reading, shortlisting and discussing the many extraordinary essays and were amazed by the high quality essays especially among the very young writers. We value all your entries and efforts, even if your essay entry did not make it into the final round.

Now finally we can announce the 2022 winners for each category - as well as some highly commended entries.

And now... drumroll, please... here they are:

Essay Competition Winners
2022: 
'My Life - Make Happiness a Habit"

Age Category: 8 - 11 years

Winner

Runner-up

All winners have been notified via email about their success in the essay competition. Congratulations!

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

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

All winners have been 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!

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 

Thank you for your wonderful essays! All these excellent essays will make a great reading and are an inspiration!

Please note, we will link to some other really good essays on our country pages, so be on the look out for them too! .. ;-) especially check our India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore pages as we will add new content there regularly.

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

Our competition stats and the infographic for the 2022 competition are shown here:

Essay Competition Winners 2022
Infographic 

And for those of you who want to compare to the 2021 stats:

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

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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