During Monday’s morning meeting, the Upper School learned the results of NA’s Second Annual Flash Fiction Competition, which welcomes students’ creative submissions of 500 words or fewer. The judges – all published writers in NA’s orbit (Liz Maccie ’93, Flannery James ’14, and Thomas Reed) – recognize the following students as winners of the 2023 competition:
Category Awards
Best Dialogue: Jeffrey Kunzweiler for the story, “Husk”
Best Figurative Language: Christina Silva for the story, “Birthday”
Most Evocative: Anika Lippke for the story, “Part-Time Lover”
Best Social Commentary: Sydney Chang for the story, “The Party”
Overall Awards
Honorable Mention: Siyona Bordia for the story, “Time and Time Again”
Third Place: Ani Chakravarthy for the story, “Day 44”
Second Place: Olivia Palker for the story, “The Ocean’s Call”
Overall First Place Winner: Sophie Hu for the story, “Icarus”
You can read three of the winning short stories below: