2024 Competition Winners | Pen & Quill

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2024 Summer Competition Winners

Our 2024 Annual Summer Competition's, themed Longing & Dreamscapes, was open to all writers between the ages of 12-21. Our prizes were generously sponsored by the International Women's Writing Guild and the Princeton University Press.

1st Place

Snowglobe

by Ava Chen

Princeton University / Freshman

2nd Place

colonial purgatory

by Ela Kini

Hunter College High School / Junior

3rd Place

suburban post-apocalyptic

by Fiona Jin

Adlai E. Stevenson High School / Senior

Runner-Up

Mutant Troglodyte

by Dawn Canada

University of San Carlos in the Philippines / Freshman

2024 Finalists

Alana Rodrigues-Birch | Poetry | University of Auckland
Conlan Heiser-Cerrato | Poetry | Loyola Blakefield
Gwyneth Bessey | Poetry | University of Pittsburgh
Joanna Liu | Poetry | Lexington High School
Johann Jazmine Perez | Poetry | La Salle College Antipolo
Kaia Boyer | Prose | University of California, Santa Barbara
Pacella Chukwuma-Eke | Poetry | Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra State, Nigeria
Rose Raphael | Poetry | Boston University
Samuel Samba | Poetry | University of Benin
Sierra J. Williams | Prose | University of Pennsylvania

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