The Young Authors Competition is coming back soon from Columbia College Chicago. Submissions will be open this fall in the categories of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. We’re excited to once again see exciting new work from high school writers...
Heirloom by Masfi Khan you are ten when a teacher says to untie your bengali accent like an iron necklace. you dream of a voice that slices oceans like wind. of being an autumn-crisp american, even if it...
Reflections on Trauma over an X-Axis by Rachel Litchman This essay will appear in New South, 10.2, in the coming months. Reflection When I study calculus in eleventh grade, my math teacher tells me that a...
Magic by Ella Lerner When I was younger I liked playing the game. I liked teasing and being teased and how my knees shook and how his hands trembled. I liked feeling like a princess from the fairy...
Home, Oven by Farah Ghafoor Your sister is baking — the heavy banana and nut moving viscous through the hallways for hours. The bread rises warm and supple until it is split for tea, shards of almond peeking...
The Semester of Fading by Michelle Chen Dr. Mary Ren Contact: mren34@longinghs| 728-843-2732 Office: 246 (a room I haunt with a swivel chair that runs ridges into the carpet and four people whose backs of heads I can...
Misfire by Kathryn Hargett July 6-12, 2016 I am a terrible person because when my friends talk about their mental illnesses, my chest coils like the mud nest of a sparrow and I vomit. Even the word “health” can...
We’re excited to share the top three winners in our Young Authors contest, as selected by our faculty here at Columbia College Chicago. As always, this was a highly competitive year with great entries from all over the world....
We’re excited to announce our top ten finalists in each of the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. We saw amazing quality in so many of the submissions this year, and are blown away by all the talent. Congratulations...
Thanks to everyone who submitted their work to Columbia College Chicago’s Young Authors Writing Competition! We are busy reading all 1,800 of the submissions we received. Ten finalists will be named in each of the three categories: Fiction,...
