We are thrilled to announce the three winners in each category—creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry—of the 2018-2019 Young Authors Writing Competition, hosted by the English and Creative Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago! Our judges selected the winning entries...

We are delighted to share with you the finalists in each category—creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry—of the 2019 Young Authors Writing Competition! It was a huge challenge to select the finalists from the hundreds of wonderful pieces we received...

Our judges are very close to determining the winning entries in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry for the 2019 Young Authors Writing Competition. We received well over 1500 different pieces this year, and have been consistently amazed by their...

Submissions for the 2019 Young Authors Writing Competition are now closed. On behalf of the English and Creative Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago, we want to thank all of the talented writers who have submitted their stories, poems,...

Simultaneous Submissions: Q: Is it OK to submit my work to your contest as well as other contests or magazines? A: Simultaneous submissions are allowed for our contest, but we ask that you notify us immediately if the piece...

Submissions for the 2019 Young Authors Writing Competition are now open! To enter, please follow these steps: Visit the website at https://www.colum.edu/academics/liberal-arts-and-sciences/initiatives/young-authors-writing-competition.html  Click on the Submit Your Work button. Fill out all required fields on the form. Upload the submission(s). Remember: Students...

2019 Young Authors Writing Competition Submission Guidelines   Length Each individual entry has a limit of ten pages. The number of words is not fixed, but each work cannot exceed 10 pages.  If you’re submitting multiple entries, each entry...

Submissions for the 2019 Young Authors Writing Competition are now open! Check out the submissions guidelines for more information. Happy writing!  

My Goddamn Pink House by Kaya Dierks I live smack-dab in the middle of Nowhere, Ohio: twelve square miles of bobbing rooftops and soggy fold-up lawn chairs wrapped in sticky ribbons of interstate. My town’s like a city stretched...

of honey and spice by Arushi Avachat This is what I know of India: 1. Summers spent on dirty rooftops. My cousins and I go up here every afternoon of our visit. The streets of Jaipur glitter below us,...