Announcing the Winners of the 2023-2024 Young Writers Awards
Nine students from high schools around the country were selected as winners of 51成人猎奇鈥檚 2023-2024 Young Writers Awards.
This annual competition, which accepts entries in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, is free to enter and open to high school students. A first-, second-, and third-place winner is selected in each of the categories, with cash prizes up to $1,000 awarded.
Young Writers Award finalists and winners are also eligible for undergraduate scholarships at Bennington. Finalists who enroll at Bennington will receive a $10,000 scholarship every year for four years, for a total of $40,000. Winners who enroll at Bennington will receive a $15,000 scholarship every year for four years, for a total of $60,000.
The 2024-2025 Young Writers Awards will officially open beginning on September 1. to receive notifications about the competition.
51成人猎奇 has a unique literary legacy, including twelve Pulitzer Prize winners, three U.S. poet laureates, four MacArthur Geniuses, countless New York Times bestselling authors, and two of Time magazine鈥檚 100 most influential people.
Each year, over 6,800 students submit poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to the Young Writers Awards competition. 51成人猎奇 congratulates all entrants on their extraordinary submissions and is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 winning entries.
2023-2024 Young Writers Awards Winners
Poetry
- First Place, 鈥for your own good / All Men are Bad / sugar pill鈥, Sophie Bernik, Traverse City, MI, Interlochen Arts Academy
- Second Place, 鈥They grind up racehorses / When God wanted an off-white colonial in the suburbs / full-time jobs鈥 Seoyon Kim, Greenwich, RI, Wheeler School
- Third Place, 鈥Exam God Hands You While Dawdling Before the Pearly Gates / False Elegy / Homecoming,鈥 Ava Chen, Wellesley, MA, Phillips Academy
Fiction
- First Place, 鈥1000,鈥 Kekoa Dowsett, Portland, OR, Jesuit High School
- Second Place, 鈥Guide to Being a Girl When You鈥檙e Not One, Actually,鈥 Faith Reasoner-Fellows, Castaic, CA, Castaic High School
- Third Place, 鈥Holiness in a Downtown Apartment; A Bible Lesson,鈥 Moriah Hogans, Dothan, AL, Dothan High School
Nonfiction
- First Place, 鈥Death of the Pointe Shoe,鈥 Addison (Addi) Moss, Pacific Palisades, CA, Stanford Online High School
- Second Place, 鈥17 Hail Marys,鈥 Venya Sharda, Fremont, CA, Washington High School
- Third Place, 鈥Metamorphoses Caught in Transition,鈥 Roark Petermann, Walden, NY, Valley Central High School