2025 Writing Contests
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Tell a Bay Area Story
Summer Deadline: August 15, 2024
Enlighten your readers with a creative essay that illustrates a slice of life in the Bay Area. Choose a topic (art, culture, society, business, health, social justice) and interview 3 people over 30 years old in the Bay Area that have interesting professions relating to that topic. Find a common thread between these three people and write an out-of-the-box essay that shares a distinctly Bay Area story.
Unsung Community Leaders
Winter Deadline: December 31, 2024
Choose one lesser-known leader (from the present or past), research their life and work, and write a profile on them. How they have impacted our community in some way? Be creative.
Throughout your essay, you should also be interpreting the following question in your own way: How do you define a leader? How does this person help us understand what a leader could be?
Fantasy Fiction
Summer Deadline: June 30, 2025
It’s no question what teens love to read: fantasy. Many students have submitted short stories in this genre that it seemed time to create a bigger contest to encourage students to perfect their fantasy craft.
For this contest, create a fantasy short story about anything.
