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,...

Instructions for Suburban Boy Love By Aidan Forster Wax. Never use Nair. Pull blackheads from your pores with a metal extractor. Ask the nice lady at Great Clips to give you a hard part, a deep white line of...

Talk to me by Ingrid Ren ___ Everything makes my mother suffer. ___ I stand on a street at nighttime begging her not to leave. She opens her car door. I don’t know if I would miss her but...

sunlight through the honey jar by Savannah Bradley we argue over the pronunciation of caramel for an hour in the car. i say it the long way, the “wrong way,” according to him. look it up. if he’s right,...