River of Words

2026 Winners & Finalists

2026 Winners & Finalists

Winners & Finalists Gallery

Painting of five fish swimming above painted and string seaweed in the foreground. They are under the waters surface with light streaming down on them.

The River of Words Program is ecstatic to announce our 2026 Winners and Finalists

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Category I Winners

Pre-K through 2nd Grade

Monsoon Storm

The stone under the Oak tree

My favourite tree

Our Planet Our Decision

Where the River Breathes

Watershed

Category II Winners

3rd Grade through 5th Grade

Carry My Heart

Ode to Pomegranate

Whales' Waltz

The River is Home to All

The Path We Choose

We Built Robots, But Forgot the Ocean

Category III Winners

6th Grade through 8th Grade

Notes from the Forest Floor

Structural Pruning

petals in lowercase

My home was in River

In the Same Current

Sailing on Dark Seas

Category IV Winners

9th Grade through 12th Grade

California Is a Soft Body That Refuses Me

The Witness

What the Valley Drinks

Drainage of the Seas

Lost Red-Foot

Melting Home

Special Prize Winners

Hometown Apologia for Beijing

Streetlit Stars

Tilling the Blank Page

The Great Migration

Feather River Headwaters: A Transcript

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