2022 KidSpirit Awards Honor Global Young Writers and Artists

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - June 13, 2022 - PRLog -- KidSpirit (kidspiritonline.com), the award-winning online magazine and community by and for 11-to-17-year-olds, announces the winners of its annual KidSpirit Awards today. The awards, chosen by the magazine's all-youth editorial boards around the world, recognize contributors for outstanding expository writing, personal essays, poetry, and artwork featured in KidSpirit in the last year. Over 80 editors from 11 countries selected pieces from issues on Life and Death, Connection and Isolation, The Media That Raised Us, and Love created by their peers.

KidSpirit provides a unique forum for young people to explore life's big questions, and award recipients represent the wide range of perspectives and backgrounds that make up the magazine's global community.

Each issue of KidSpirit revolves around a Big Question posed by the editors. The 2022 Big Question Award goes to a writer from Pakistan who contemplates what it means to lead a fulfilling life.

In the Features department, editors recognize two teens from Australia from their exploration of why we mourn celebrity deaths, a writer from Taiwan for her piece on the impact of childhood relationships, a young New Yorker's probing of biases in the death penalty, and a Hong Kong student's analysis of the benefits of reading.

Winners in the Awesome Moments department include authors from New York and Paraguay who share stories about lessons from family and friends, learning to appreciate the present moment, and overcoming their fears. Interfaith Connections Awards acknowledge youth from Australia, Pakistan, India, Taiwan, and Ukraine for essays on the permanent impact of impermanent love, the transformative power of poetry and art, the importance of learning an ancestral language, and the role of children in Ukrainian culture. In Media, winning pieces include reviews of Being Mortal, Confetti Girl, and The Good Place by teens from Texas, California, and New York. Helping Hands Awards honor writers from Australia, India, and Tennessee for their stories about founding a newspaper, a teen writer who helps her peers find self-understanding, and a nonprofit dedicated to the healing power of music. The editors also selected winners from Australia, Pakistan, Tennessee, India, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, China, Haiti, and Ukraine in the Poetry and Art departments, highlighting the creative ways contributors around the world have shared their inner wisdom on this year's themes.

The 2022 PerSpectives Award — the only award reserved for an adult author — goes to Lama Surya Das for his piece "What Is Death to Me?"  Lama Surya draws on ancient spiritual wisdom and his own personal journey to share how questions like this can lead us to our true selves.

For a complete list of winners, please visit KidSpirit's website at kidspiritonline.com/about/whats-new/. For more information or to request an interview, please contact Jessie Insley at the information below.