RAINBOW STORYTELLING COMPETITION
PAST WINNERS & ENTRIES
2024
Poetry
Under 16
Winner
Runner Up
Content Warnings: Homophobia, violence
16 – 20
Winner
Runner Up
Content Warnings: Strong language, homophobic language
Content Warnings: Death
Content Warnings: Death
Content Warnings: Homophobia
Content Warnings: Homophobia,racism, religion
21 – 27
Winner
Content Warnings: Religion, transphobia
Runner Up
Content Warnings: Gender dysphoria
Content Warnings: Sexual violence
Creative Storytelling
Under 16
Winner
Content Warnings: Mental illness, metaphor for self-harm
Runner Up
Content Warnings: Mentions of death, blood, hallucinations, and mental illness
Content Warnings: Mentions of blood, self-harm, and substance use/abuse
Content Warnings: Transphobia, violence
Content Warnings: Death, mental illness
16 – 20
Winner
Content Warnings: Violence, zombie/horror, death, suicidal ideation
Runner Up
Content Warnings: Police brutality
Content Warnings: Homophobia
21 – 27
Winner
Content Warnings: Strong language and substance use
Runner Up
Content Warnings: Violence, homophobia, implied suicidal ideation
Content Warnings: Violence, xenophobia, gore, self-harm, religious allegory
Māori
Winner
Runner Up
Content Warnings: Police brutality
Content Warnings: Gender dysphoria
Content Warnings: Sexual violence
2023
Poetry
Under 16
Winner
Content Warnings: homophobia, implied sexual themes
Runner Up
Content Warnings: gore
Entries
Content Warnings: mental illness
Content Warnings: internalised homophobia
16 – 24
Winner
Content Warnings: gore
Runner Up
Content Warnings: gun violence, character death
Runner Up
Content Warnings: abuse
Entries
Content Warnings: violence
Content Warnings: death
Content Warnings: homophobia
Content Warnings: homophobia, religion, racism
Content Warnings: religion
Content Warnings: violence
Content Warnings: religion, abuse
Content Warnings: death, violence
Content Warnings: religion
Fiction (Prose)
Under 16
Winner
Runner Up
Runner Up
Entries
Content Warnings: violence
Content Warnings: violence, character death, transphobia, homophobia
Content Warnings: transphobia
Content Warnings: mental illness, character death
Content Warnings: homophobia
Content Warnings: homophobia
Content Warnings: homophobia, transphobia
Content Warnings: self-harm
16 – 24
Winner
Content Warnings: gore
Runner Up
Runner Up
Content Warnings: gore
Entries
Content Warnings: homophobia
Content Warnings: gore
Content Warnings: homophobia
Content Warnings: self-harm, homophobia, transphobia
Content Warnings: suicide
Content Warnings: mental illness
Content Warnings: violence
Content Warnings: homophobia
Content Warnings: mental illness, substance use/abuse, character death
Creative Non-Fiction
Under 16
Winner
Entries
Content Warnings: transphobia
16-24 entry
Content Warnings: violence
2022
Fiction
Winner
Content Warnings: character death, war, mental illness
Content Warnings: character death
Content Warnings: homophobia
Content Warnings: homophobia, character death
Non-Fiction
Winner
Content Warnings: discrimination
Poetry
Winner
Content Warnings: character death
Content Warnings: homophobia
Content Warnings: transphobia
Content Warnings: substance use/abuse
Content Warnings: homophobia
Content Warnings: sexual assault, mental illness
2021
Under 16
Winners
Entries
16 – 24
Winners
Entries
