We are grateful to everyone who shared their work with us. Your creativity and originality made the selection process both inspiring and challenging. We selected 2 essays, 3 poems, and 5 short stories. 

The winning entries are:

- Anatomy of a Deer (short story by M. V., a 12th-grade student of Šv. Juozapo Mokykla);

- Silver Spoon (short story by M. V., a 12th-grade student of Šv. Juozapo Mokykla);

- Ivy (short story by Vakarė Baranauskaitė, a 9th-grade student of Pažinimo Medis school);

- The Tower of Church (short story by D. N., an 11th-grade student of Kaunas Jonas Jablonskis High School);

- He Who Sleeps (short story by Kostas Ferensas, an 11th-grade student of Šiaulių Didždvario gymnasium);

- Big Eyes (poem by Skaistė Albrektaitė, a 9th-grade student of Kelmės Jono Graičiūno High School);

- Just ten Minutes Before Midnight (poem by Lina Mulevičiūtė, an 11th-grade student of Vilnius Lyceum);

- The Symphony of Seven Winds (poem by Diana Veselovaitė, a 9th-grade student of Vilnius Gabija gymnasium);

- We Grow More Than Pencil Marks (essay by Paulina Bagdonaitė, a 9th-grade student of Klaipėda Lyceum);

- The Teenager I Thought I’d Be (essay by Rugilė Stundžaitė, an 11th-grade student of Vilnius Lyceum).

Congratulations to the winners! Your works will appear in the 2nd issue of Discourse Magazine.

To those not published this time, thank you for your courage in submitting — we hope you will keep writing and sharing your voice.