Where

Mission Workshop

541 Valencia St, San Francisco

When

Saturday, October 20th

5 PM to 6 PM

Details

Join us to help honor the Award Recipients and Finalists at the The Bay Area Teen Writing Awards Ceremony, which will be hosted at Mission Workshop (541 Valencia St, San Francisco) from 5 to 6 PM on Saturday, October 20th as part of Litquake’s finale event, The Lit Crawl. Come be inspired by Shanthi Sekaran, our lauded keynote speaker, and hear the nine award recipients read their pieces.

The names of the award recipients and finalists are listed below alphabetically by first name. If your name is below you will receive another email with details about the event. Thank you to all who submitted! Keep writing!

Writopia Lab, in partnership with Litquake, invited writers between the ages of 12 to 18 to submit their fiction, memoir, or poetry for a chance to receive an award of recognition. Each award recipient will have the opportunity to be published in Writopia Lab's teen litmag The Ellipsis and to participate in a celebratory reading at Litquake’s culminating event, the Lit Crawl. The finalists will be published in The Ellipsis and be honored with a certificate at the Lit Crawl.

A broad range of voices, styles, and perspectives has beenchosen to be showcased at Lit Crawl, Litquake’s final festive night in the Mission District of San Francisco on Saturday, October 20th. Additionally, two outstanding submissions by 11th and 12th grade writers have been selected to receive a $250 scholarship.

For more information, email RegisterBayArea@writopialab.org.

Award Recipients

Amy Zhang, Poetry

Ashni Mathuria, Memoir

Bella Coles, Poetry

Charlie Stuip, Memoir

Dante Kirkman, Fiction

Jessica Schott-Rosenfield, Poetry

Lily Wancewicz, Fiction

Naseem Alavi, Memoir

Percy Unger, Fiction

Finalists

Aaron Ouyang, Memoir

Aditi Khanna, Memoir

Alexandra Gold, Poetry

Alexandra Shahinfar, Poetry

Annie Cheng, Memoir

Annie Ma, Memoir

Chaya Tong, Poetry

Christina Wong, Memoir

Daniela Castillo, Memoir

Emma Greif, Fiction

Jackie Lincroft, Memoir

Jacob Zhou, Memoir

Kai Sam Fong, Poetry

Kate Richardson, Poetry

Liza Kolbasov, Poetry

Mara Tucker, Memoir

Megan Yu, Memoir

Prajna Boreddy, Memoir

Prameela Kottapalli, Poetry

Sandra Chen, Poetry

Sarah Feng, Memoir

Sia Desale, Fiction

Sofi Orkin, Poetry

Sydney Riemer, Fiction

Trinity Balla, Fiction

Valerie Wu, Memoir

Vivienne Tran, Fiction