The winners of the annual Random House Creative Writing Competition For New York City Public High School Seniors were announced last week at the competition’s annual awards ceremony. The RH CWC awards are designed to encourage and support young creative talent in the New York City public school system and first, second and third place scholarship prizes are awarded in fiction, poetry, drama, personal memoir and graphic novels.
Indeed graphic novels are the newest category to be included in the Random House Creative Writing Competition for New York City High school seniors. A complete list of the winners for all the categories as well as a booklet containing the full text and images of all the winning graphic novel stories can be downloaded from the RHCWC website. This year’s first place winners for the graphic novel competition are the team of Charlotte Ahlin and Jalilah Byrd from Hunter College High School. The two will split a $10,000 scholarship for their comics short story, “Rough Draft.”
The other winners include Erica Chan and Sara Shi from Stuyvesant High School, who will split a $5,000 scholarship for their comic “Summer Harvest.” Samantha Chitacap from Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, will receive a $2,500 scholarship award for her comic “Push the Envelope.” Valeriya Barayants from Forest Hills High School will receive a $1000 scholarship for her comic “The Origin of the Garden of Earthly Delights.” Ngo-chi Tran from Dewitt Clinton High School will receive a $1000 scholarship for her comic “Hope Once More.” And Mei Chan from Brooklyn Technical High School will receive a $1000 scholarship for her comic “Meant to be Broken.”
The awards were presented at the competition’s annual awards ceremony, held this year at Pace University. The awards were presented by GB Tran, author of the graphic memoir Vietnamerica (Villard).
