"The appreciation of beauty is deeply individual; to confine beauty to a single definition would be to undervalue its impact on all of our lives."
-Joan B., from "Beauty", Outstanding Interpretation Senior Division
Students were allowed to submit original works of fiction or nonfiction, within the genres of prose, poetry, or drama. If English was not the student's first language, the student was allowed to submit an entry in his or her own language, along with an interpretative translation.