The following is a list of the top short stories entered in this year’s student competition.

First place: A COMEDY OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS by Trevor Wisniewski of Ancaster High School, Ancaster, Ontario.

Second place: THE BLACK BOX by Jeffery Ma of Agincourt Collegiate Institute, Scarborough, Ontario.

Third place: HOLY MATRIMONY by Rena Shirley of Twin Lakes Secondary School, Orillia, Ontario.

The remaining six shortlisted entries are in alphabetical order:

Lindsay Campbell – Hammarskjold High School, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Miranda Carlson-Strain, St. Mary’s College, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario.

Angeline Hawthorne – St. Thomas Aquinas High School – Oakville, Ontario.

Nick Maeder – Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School – (There are three Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary Schools in Ontario. We are not sure which one Nick attends.)

Submanya Sivajothy – Sir Wilfred Laurier Collegiate Institute, Scarborough, Ontario.

Emma Tranter – Hammarskjold High School, Thunder Bay, Ontario.