Personalessay Stories

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...

About everything. In Bahasa and English. Cover from Pinterest.

A personal mini-essay. A little, late night reflection.

Hi. I wrote this Personal Essay for my Creative Writing class. This is not a perfect piece but I hope you'll enjoy reading it. A.

I wrote this back in Highschool as a personal essay of in a sense going through the process of letting go of a friend. I've grown up with a fair amount of relationships...

Personal essay

"Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem." - Anne Sexton

A personal essay I wrote while in college (2022)

Do you believe? In self?

Just an apology and a brief explanation. Not really any specific set of formal writing.

Everyone seems to think the world is so complicated, at least I did for a long time. The truth is, everything is explainable, I learned that at a young age. The world is...

Generosity is not just feeding the hungry right off the bat! We are living under a generational curse-scarcity. Our minds are conditioned to operate based on a selfish...

After a revealing search for his birth mother, Lee declined to pursue the paternal side of the story. Little did he know how the fate of the planet itself was wrapped up...

A day of mandatory fun, at a water theme park, a young man finds himself struggling with the reality of his childhood. His pride is continuously grasped, until the water...

A personal essay about my father and the wide felt effects of substance abuse and mental illness on him and his loved ones. Thank you to anyone who finds this and reads...

This is a true story about a friend I made in the streets of Old Delhi named "Torrential Rain". I took inspiration from Orwell's 'Shooting an Elephant' in weav...