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The Sixth Chapter Poetry Writing Contest – Winners

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We’re thrilled to celebrate six incredible years of poetry, creativity, and community with the announcement of our Sixth Chapter Poetry Writing Contest winners! 🏆 This year’s contest brought in powerful poems and passionate voices from across the country, and your votes helped us select the standout entries. Congratulations to our three grand prize winners… chosen by popular vote! Your words inspired us, and your talent truly lit up our sixth anniversary celebration. A round of applause for our ten runner-up winners as well! Each of you will receive a special gift: the Little Infinite 90-Day Poetry for Life Journal—a space to keep your creativity flowing all year long. Thank you to everyone who submitted, shared, and voted. You’ve helped us make this milestone year unforgettable. Keep writing. Keep inspiring. Here’s to Chapter Seven! 🥂 🥇🎉1ST PLACE WINNER: Kayla Lee Goodbye Overachiever An unfamiliar, all-white room—sterile, yet strangely dark. Tubes and needles drain what’s left of my hope. Tears blur the future I once believed in. Furrowed brows and screams fracture my identity. The academic overachiever waves goodbye. This is no classroom—it’s a dreadful cell. Chained to a bed—where is my escape? Wooden desks are gone. The world loomed large around

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