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    Creative Writing Awards: 2020 Selected Poems, Stories, and Memoirs
    Creative Writing Awards: 2020 Selec...
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    Every year, in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, Penguin Random House hosts the Creative Writing Awards, looking for diverse, unique voices of high school seniors nationwide.  Five seniors are awarded $50,000 in scholarship money annually in these categories: fiction/drama, poetry, personal essay, and spoken word.
        
        Read the 2020 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/
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    Table of contentsLast updated May 05, 2021
    • INTRODUCTION
    • 2020 Scholarship Winners
    • Orlane Devesin: SPOKEN WORD
    • Ivana Cortez: PERSONAL MEMOIR
    • Erika Whisnant: FICTION & DRAMA
    • Jeffrey Liao: POETRY
    • Maya Williams: NYC ENTRANT AWARD
    • Arushi Avachat: Honorable Mention, PERSONAL MEMOIR
    • Madeleine Giaconia: Honorable Mention, FICTION & DRAMA
    • Penelope Alegria: Honorable Mention, POETRY
    • Anna Vargas: Honorable Mention, SPOKEN WORD
    • Jill Patel: Honorable Mention, PERSONAL MEMOIR
    • Isabella Yu: Honorable Mention, FICTION & DRAMA
    • Regina Valencia: Honorable Mention, POETRY
    • Xi Lu: Honorable Mention, FICTION & DRAMA
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    • INTRODUCTION
    • 2020 Scholarship Winners
    • Orlane Devesin: SPOKEN WORD
    • Ivana Cortez: PERSONAL MEMOIR
    • Erika Whisnant: FICTION & DRAMA
    • Jeffrey Liao: POETRY
    • Maya Williams: NYC ENTRANT AWARD
    • Arushi Avachat: Honorable Mention, PERSONAL MEMOIR
    • Madeleine Giaconia: Honorable Mention, FICTION & DRAMA
    • Penelope Alegria: Honorable Mention, POETRY
    • Anna Vargas: Honorable Mention, SPOKEN WORD
    • Jill Patel: Honorable Mention, PERSONAL MEMOIR
    • Isabella Yu: Honorable Mention, FICTION & DRAMA
    • Regina Valencia: Honorable Mention, POETRY
    • Xi Lu: Honorable Mention, FICTION & DRAMA
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