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‘Love of my Life’, Second Place in Fiction

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Love of my Life by Romola Cavet BRANDY My mother called me the love of her life. We used to sit together on sticky white plastic chairs on the sun-cracked concrete outside our trailer, me staring at her staring at...

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Chapter from ‘The Boy with the Red Bicycle A Novel’, Third Place in Fiction

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Chapter from The Boy with the Red Bicycle A Novel by Ashley Theilacker The air was hot and stale, stumbling and tangling against the trees outside the window. Alf felt his body numbing in the July heat, a...

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2020-2021 Young Authors Writing Competition!

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We are excited to announce the three winners in each category—creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry—of the 2020-2021 Young Authors Writing Competition, hosted by the English and Creative Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago! Our judges selected the winning pieces...

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Top Ten 2020-2021 Young Authors Writing Competition!

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We are delighted to announce the ten finalists in each category—creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry—of the 2020-2021 Young Authors Writing Competition! Our judges had a huge challenge to choose the finalists from hundreds of extraordinary pieces we received from...

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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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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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Top Ten 2020 Young Authors Writing Competition Announcement

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Dear writing community, We hope that you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy during this challenging time. We want to inform you that our judging process for the 2019-2020 Young Authors Writing Competition has been affected...

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Submissions closed

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Submissions for the 2019-2020 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,...

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