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Italy Writes 2023 winners

Non-Fiction

  • 1st place (€300 gift certificate) to Denise Messina, 3rd year, Liceo Classico Linguistico “Immanuel Kant” in Rome (Prof. Gina Reale) for Madness
  • 2nd place (€200 gift certificate) to Elena Sofia Battisti, 3rd year, Liceo Classico/Linguistico Statale Tito Lucrezio Caro, Rome (Prof. Serena Strianese) for The Start
  • 3rd place (€100 gift certificate) to Mariia Komohortseva, 5th year, Liceo Classico/Linguistico Statale Tito Lucrezio Caro, Rome (Prof. Serena Strianese) for War Through the Eyes of a Teenager

Fiction

  • 1st place (€300 gift certificate) to Thi Thuc Matilde Rosci, 5th year, IIS Blaise Pascal, Pomezia (Prof. Giorgia Proietti) for The Girl from The Yellow House
  • 2nd place (€200 gift certificate) to Caterina Verdecchia, 5th year, Liceo Ginnasio Statale “Dante Alighieri”, Rome (Prof. Carla Mummolo) for Jivica
  • 3rd place (€100 gift certificate) to Francesca Di Chiara, 4th year, Liceo Classico Linguistico “Immanuel Kant” in Rome (Prof. Valentina Popa) for The Last Inheritance

Italy Writes 2020 winners

Read the writing of both 1st Place Prize recipients published in the June 2020 online issue of Wanted in Rome.

NON-FICTION – AWARDS

  • 1st Place Prize, in the category of Non-Fiction, a gift certificate for €300, Cecilia Federici, 4th year at Liceo Scientifico G. B. Morgagni in Rome, for 'Brushes and Words: American Impressionism and Whitman'
  • 2nd Place Prize, in the category of Non-Fiction, a gift certificate for €200, Simone Spadoni, 5th year at Liceo Scientifico Giovanni Keplero in Rome, for 'The Subjectivity of Truth'
  • 3rd Place Prize, in the category of Non-Fiction, a gift certificate for €100, Nancy Fantoni, 5th year at Liceo Scientifico Liceo Virgilio in Rome for 'The Next Train'

FICTION – AWARDS

  • 1st Place Prize, in the category of Fiction, a gift certificate for €300, Giulia Alberini, 4th year at Liceo Azzarita (IIS Tommaso Salvini) in Rome, for 'Civil War'
  • 2nd Place Prize, in the category of Fiction, a gift certificate for €200, Lorenzo De Mare, 4th year at Liceo Azzarita (IIS Tommaso Salvini) in Rome for 'The Cure'
  • 3rd Place Prize, in the category of Fiction, a gift certificate for €100, Maria Perini, 3rd year at the Educandato Statale Emanuela Setti Carraro Dalla Chiesa in Milan, for 'A Girl and a Casket'

Italy Writes 2022 winners

NON-FICTION 

  • 1st Place Prize in the category of Non-Fiction, a gift certificate for €300 goes to Lorenzo Pastorelli, Liceo Scientifico A. Volta in Milano, for ‘A Death in the Cradle’.
  • 2nd Place Prize in the category of Non-Fiction, a gift certificate for €200, goes to  
  • Veronica Sessa, Liceo Classico/Linguistico Statale Tito Lucrezio Caro in Rome, for ‘Photographs Lie’ 
  • 3rd Place Prize in the category of Non-Fiction, a gift certificate for €100, goes to  Livia Di Raimondo, Liceo Statale 'Niccolò Machiavelli' in Rome, for ‘Emily Dickinson's Poetry’ 

FICTION

  • 1st Place Prize in the category of Fiction, a gift certificate for €300 goes to Arianna Calabrò, IIS Leopoldo Pirelli in Rome, for ‘In the Beginning’  
  • 2nd Place Prize in the category of Fiction, a gift certificate for €200 goes to Silvia Parente, Liceo Scientifico Statale "Albert Einstein", in Cerignola, province of Foggia, for ‘And Still It Is’ 
  • 3rd Place Prize in the category of Fiction, a gift certificate for €100 goes to Elisa Massari, Liceo Scientifico Statale "I. Newton", in Rome, for ‘Hidden Narrator

Italy Writes 2021 winners

NON-FICTION – AWARDS

  • 1st Place Prize in the category of Non-Fiction, a gift certificate for €300, to Cecilia Federici, 5th year student at Liceo Scientifico G. B. Morgagni in Rome, for ‘HER - Noticing the color purple in a field
  • 2nd Place Prize in the category of Non-Fiction, a gift certificate for €200, to Alessandro Picardi, 5th year student at Liceo Scientifico F. Sbordone in Naples for ‘A Panoramic Overview of Gender and the Gender divide’ 
  • 3rd Place Prize in the category of Non-Fiction, a gift certificate for €100, to Carlo Philip Carretta, 3rd year student at Liceo Ginnasio Dante Alighieri in Rome, for ‘Hate and War’ 

FICTION – AWARDS

  • 1st Place Prize in the category of Fiction, a gift certificate for €300, to Martina Cacchioni, 4th year student at the Scuola Svizzera di Roma, for ‘So I flew
  • 2nd Place Prize in the category of Fiction, a gift certificate for €200, to Elisabetta Stedile, 4th year student at Liceo Giovanni Marinelli in Udine, for ‘The perfect murder
  • 3rd Place Prize in the category of Fiction, a gift certificate for €100, to Gaia Padalino, 3rd year student at Liceo Polivalente "Carolina Poerio" in Foggia for ‘Gods' Will