This poem titled Figure Skating, The Journey is about what it's actually like being a figure skater. From the outside, a figure skater might look beautiful and elegant, but there is so much more that goes into it.

Socrates was a Greek philosopher who sought truth by the means of constant questioning. The Socratic method enabled the critically consider a subject matter deeply.

This artwork focuses on the way America treats me as someone who is Asian.

I wrote this story during an opening writing prompt that we do at the beginning of every workshop creative writing class. It was October 13th.

This is a creative writing piece depicting a possible ending of a story I have been planning to write from the point of view of a character who cannot remember the past only to wake up in the hospital.

The moments when we feel the most vulnerable and visible are when we need to speak the loudest and let ourselves be afraid.

During my composition of "Breathless", I aimed for it to be a short story. It's much easier to adapt this way, manageable to edit, it's a world captured in a few pages or less.

This story is built off of an idea have been having for a long time, I used to have dreams where I became starts and this piece help translate that majestical feeling into worlds and something I can share with the world.

One Last Shot was a piece that was inspired by my own life. It is based on my true feelings and experiences. This piece is a great example of a Personal Narrative that conveys my own thoughts and how I play basketball.

Writing about important and true-to-life issues has always been important to me. In past years I would write a good mix between unrealistic and unfortunately realistic, but this year I've focused on the unfortunate a lot more often.

Whenever I get bored or feel upset, I go on my laptop and let my imagination write away.

A ”Glimpse Of Hope” is a letter written by a girl to her mother. The letter has to do with a girl's mental health and how she fights her demons when she is inspired by her mother. I was inspired to write this because I wanted to show readers that even in the dark there is always light.

My piece is made up of observations I made about how the world looks in the rain. I took those observations and added references to what it's like to not know yourself and your reflection.

This is a poem I wrote a bit earlier this year during a time that was incredibly hard for me. It was a way for me to reflect on what I had been going through and the things I had been feeling and hopefully realize that the pain and futility in my actions weren’t worth any outcome that could come of them.

My poem is almost like a metaphor reflecting on how the bright spirit of a child changed so fast, burning out like the sun eventually will. Tired of trying and ready to give up.

My short story was inspired by my mom and some of the experiences she has detailed to me throughout my life about my older sister, the abusive relationship she had with my sister's father, and the struggles she went through with leaving him.

This is a piece of writing that I began in seventh grade and finished my senior year of high school. It was the first piece of my writing that other people - family members and friends - were genuinely moved by and compelled to share.