Personalessay Stories

A college essay

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...

Personal essay

a collection of personal essays about myself.

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

This is a personal essay that I originally published on teen ink. However, now that they aren't publishing anymore I'm looking for new places to post my work. This is an...

This personal essay is written from solely looking at an old photograph. This image may seems basic and trivial, although most photographs tend to appear that way at fir...

Forever my inspiration.

So, usually I write fiction, and not so much these personal essay type things. I actually didn't do this for class, I did this because I am tired of people saying I'm no...

An essay about how I lost them, and how it affected me.

A short personal essay about inner pain and self-acceptance. This is my first work.

This personal essay explores the author's lifelong aversion to sports and physical education, tracing their experiences from traumatic PE classes and swimming lessons to...

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...

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