Young Authors Writing Competition

Submissions open!

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Dear Writing Community, We are excited to announce that the submissions for the 2020-2021 Young Authors Writing Competition are now open! Check out the submissions guidelines and the FAQs for more information. And keep an eye out for our...

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2020-2021 Young Authors Writing Competition FAQs

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Number of submissions: Q: Am I limited to two entries total or two in each category? A: You may enter up to two works (in separate files) in each category of Creative Nonfiction and Fiction. In the Poetry category,...

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2020-2021 Young Authors Writing Competition Submission Guidelines

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Number of submissions You may enter up to two works (in separate files) in each category of Creative Nonfiction and Fiction. In the Poetry category, you also may enter up to two files, but each of them can have...

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‘Under the Same Sun’, First Place in Nonfiction

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Under the Same Sun by Hannah Ahdab I. The power outages happened every day at noon. These outages were as integral to the Syrian lifestyle as afternoon naps and eating dinner at 10 p.m. It was seemingly cruel to cut the power...

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‘Turmeric Stains’, Second Place in Nonfiction

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Turmeric Stains by Priyanka Shrestha I remember sitting on my bathroom counter the summer before seventh grade in a thin tank top and shorts. I was wearing my newly prescribed glasses and staring at every stretch and etch on...

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‘One Child’, Second Place in Fiction

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One Child by Hannah Han They took you on a Thursday. The family planning officials pulled up to our house in a sun-white truck in the late afternoon. They wore heavy boots, flecked with mud, and strained faces, the skin...

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‘New Year’, Third Place in Fiction

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New Year by Alexis Yang For most of my life, I believed that my daddy was the luckiest man on Earth. I wasn’t entirely sure what luck exactly was or what constituted it, but my daddy had it....

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‘Three Poems’, Third Place in Poetry

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Three Poems by Annie Cao Cordelia The first time I drowned, I was a child — my head a wreath of daylilies swallowing the saltwater, as if it were a richness...

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2019-2020 Young Authors Writing Competition!

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We are thrilled to announce the three winners in each category—creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry—of the 2019-2020 Young Authors Writing Competition, hosted by the English and Creative Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago! Our judges selected the winning entries...

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Top Ten 2019-2020 Young Authors Writing Competition!

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After a demanding spring, we are delighted to announce the ten finalists in each category—creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry—of the 2019-2020 Young Authors Writing Competition! It was an immense challenge to choose the finalists from hundreds of extraordinary pieces...

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