| Student | Title | School/Program | Grade |
| Kiania Avant | The Door Bell | Boston Day and Evening Academy | 11 |
| Kirlenys Baez | Untitled | Orchard Gardens Pilot School | 7 |
| Michele Bibeau | Loves | Academy of the Pacific Rim | 12 |
| Fabienne Casseus | 3,2,1 / I Dare Not Speak | Another Course to College | 10 |
| Aryana Chin-Felix | The Name Words, My Lips Cannot Speak | Wayland High School | 10 |
| Edwin Ciriaco | Untitled | Orchard Gardens Pilot School | 8 |
| Jasmynn Daley | Confusion | Another Course to College | 9 |
| Taniya Delva | The Photographer | ||
| Catherine Denis | Sin House | TechBoston Academy | 9 |
| Bernadine Desanges | True Soul | Academy of the Pacific Rim | 12 |
| Kayla Dias | Cloudy Confinements | Wellesley High School | 11 |
| Sarah "Catch-up" Lawrence | Street Soldier Part 2 I Plead | Boston Day and Evening Academy | 12 |
| David Hinton | Read Read | 8 | |
| Nagelore Jean-Caidor | Stripped | TechBoston Academy | 10 |
| Lennie Johnson III | Jazz-Free Verse | Write Boston | |
| Derrick Joseph | Emotionless | West Roxbury | 9 |
| Fleurette Joseph | Stuck in a Shell | ||
| Ashley King | Remember | Fenway High School | 9 |
| Israel Latham | The Streets | Madison Park High School | 10 |
| Khari Linton | Mistaken Identity | English High School | 11 |
| Lilyana Lorenzo | Imagine | Orchard Gardens Pilot School | 6 |
| Patrice Maddrey | We Ask Ourselves Everyday Why? | Muriel Snowden High School | |
| Linda Mary Manzano | El Lusero, La Luna y El Mar | Dearborn Middle School | 8 |
| Eraj Mashmasarmi | Fighting To the End | Health Careers Academy | 12 |
| Tatyana McAfee | Good | TechBoston Academy | 10 |
| Franny Medina | Watch Out World; Here He Comes | Madison Park High School | 11 |
| Moses Michel | Lamb of the Wolves | CCSC | 10 |
| Jennifer Miranda | Invincibility | Fenway High School | 9 |
| Karina Pedroza | The Warm Welcome of a New Life | Madison Park High School | 11 |
| Maria Phan | Vietnam | Fenway High School | 9 |
| Shashanna Phillips | Moms | Fenway High School | 9 |
| Daniela Pineda | When My Brother Came to the World | Fenway High School | 10 |
| Ricketa Pryce | Are You A Virgin? | Boston Day & Evening Academy | 11 |
| Lurika Rivera | Untitled | Orchard Gardens Pilot School | 6 |
| Michael Roberson | Absolute Zero | Boston Day & Evening Academy | |
| Anthony Robertson | Will Y'all Remember Me | Community Transition School | 10 |
| Ashley Roscoe-Walcott | Personal Statement | Greater Egleston High School | 12 |
| Shyann Roseboro | Untitled | Muriel Snowden High School | |
| Fredrick Ross | On My Block | English High School | 12 |
| Jocelyn Santiago | Another Phase of Life | Horace Mann Middle School | 11 |
| Yamira Serret | Abu Ghraib | Boston Arts Academy | 11 |
| Gillian Shaughnessy | Iggy | Academy of the Pacific Rim | 12 |
| Fatuma Sheriff | Fear Memoir | New Mission High School | 12 |
| Wesline Simplce | Always With You | Health Careers Academy | 12 |
| Monica Soto | What Are You? | Boston Day & Evening Academy | |
| Georgiana Swaray | I am from | Boston Day & Evening Academy | 12 |
| Stan Williams | An Unlived Ideology | Muriel S. Snowden International H.S. | 11 |
| LaQuenna Williams | A Victim | TechBoston Academy | 10 |
