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Creative Writing Awards: 2022 Selected Poems, Stories, & Memoirs

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A scholarship program from Penguin Random House, the Creative Writing Awards are focused on encouraging the next generation of diverse and unique voices. We Need Diverse Books began partnering with Penguin Random House in 2019 on the CWAs, which distribute $50,000 in scholarships each year. Five students receive $10,000 each in these categories: fiction / drama, personal essay, the Amanda Gorman Award for Poetry, and the Maya Angelou Award for Spoken Word. There is also a  New York City entrant award, in recognition of the Creative Writing Awards previously being centered on New York City. 

Read the 2022 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/our-awards/u-s-creative-writing-awards/All Rights Reserved

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