POETRY (AGE CATEGORY - 14 to 17)

First Place	Second Place	Third Place
The Mind	Wayside Prayer	Obsidian
Shahd Younis Al Balushi	Fatma Saad Said Al Zakwany	Claudine Paola Nava Urdaneta

POETRY (AGE CATEGORY - 18 to 24)

First Place	Second Place	Third Place
A Broken Masterpiece	The City	Heavenly Dish
Liyutha Rashid Al Zakwani	Mahnoor Anees Khan	Sheikha Hilal Al Busaidi

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SHORT STORY (AGE CATEGORY - 14 to 17)

First Place	Second Place	Third Place	Highly Commended
Numbers	Starry Night	The Fifth Sign	Scintilla of Hope
Nasra Said Bashir Al Manji	Claudine Paola Nava Urdaneta	Ghadeh Al-Murshidi	Aburva Govindarajan

SHORT STORY (AGE CATEGORY - 18 to 24)

First Place	Second Place	Third Place	Highly Commended
Four Tickets	In the Blink of an Eye	The Call of Life	Flowers Buried Alive
Mahnoor Anees Khan	Basma Shamis Hamed Al Balushi	Prameet Biswas	Shaima Amer Hamed Al-Shamli

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ESSAY CATEGORY

First Place	Second Place	Third Place
Creating Ripples	Farewell Coral Reefs	D is for Dementia: The Silent Sufferers
Prameet Biswas	Sheikha Hilal Al Busaidi	Deena Shahrabani