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    Creative Writing Awards: 2019 Selected Poems, Stories, & Memoirs
    Creative Writing Awards: 2019 Selec...
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    A scholarship program from Penguin Random House, the Creative Writing Awards are focused on encouraging the next generation of diverse and unique voices. We Need Diverse Books began partnering with Penguin Random House in 2019 on the CWAs, which distribute $50,000 in scholarships each year. Five students receive $10,000 each in these categories: fiction / drama, personal essay, poetry, and the Maya Angelou Award for Spoken Word. There is also a  New York City entrant award, in recognition of the Creative Writing Awards previously being centered on New York City. 
        
        Read the 2019 winning entries here, along with a selection of honorable mention submissions.  For more on the Creative Writing Awards go here: https://social-impact.penguinrandomhouse.com/creativewriting/
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    Table of contents
    • Introduction
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • 2019 Scholarship Winners
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • Red-White-and-Brown Skin By Katherine Sanchez
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • blood moon by Samantha Kirschman
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • American Jew by Siobhan Cohen
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • The Misinterpretation of Dark Skin by Kiora Brooks
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • Stories My Mother Tells Me by Nora Carrier
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • Flyby by Eric Zhu
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • How Long Does a Wildfire Last? by Serena Yang
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • Dear Sister by Keneane Ejigu
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • First Generation by Maria Grijalva
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • How to Be Like Me by Safiatu Diagana
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • Why I Stand by Sophia Jaramillo
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • What's Your Perception? by Echezona Onwuama
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • Credits
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020

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    A scholarship program from Penguin Random House, the Creative Writing Awards are focused on encouraging the next generation of diverse and unique voices. We Need Diverse Books began partnering with Penguin Random House in 2019 on the CWAs, which distribute $50,000 in scholarships each year. Five students receive $10,000 each in these categories: fiction / drama, personal essay, poetry, and the Maya Angelou Award for Spoken Word. There is also a  New York City entrant award, in recognition of the Creative Writing Awards previously being centered on New York City. 
        
        Read the 2019 winning entries here, along with a selection of honorable mention submissions.  For more on the Creative Writing Awards go here: https://social-impact.penguinrandomhouse.com/creativewriting/

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    • Why I Stand by Sophia Jaramillo
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • What's Your Perception? by Echezona Onwuama
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
    • Credits
      Wed, Aug 12, 2020
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