This piece started as many little stories about my grandmother’s cooking and evolved into a story about my grandmother herself and the moments when we drink hot chocolate together.
Narrative
the probability of learning my lesson
There is significant evidence that shows I still haven’t learned my lesson.
Reflections On A Semester Abroad in Copenhagen
![Allison Su](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/30154121/Allison-Su.jpg)
This piece offers reflections on my semester abroad in Copenhagen, highlighting the class that changed how I think about everything and how it will continue to impact me.
The Monsters
This story is a post-apocalyptic world where monsters (in the form of mutant animals) come out at night. Sunlight is weak and limited in this world, so the characters have to be wary.
Remnants
![Rhea Dhar](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/07131814/Rhea-Dhar.jpg)
This piece was selected as the winner in the First Chapters Contest, hosted in partnership with Penguin Random House and Electric Lit
The Vile Crown
![Megan Ngo](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/03101819/mn.png)
This piece was selected as an Honorable Mention in the First Chapters Contest, hosted in partnership with Penguin Random House and Electric Lit. Mave Chen finds herself in an impossible situation where she’s the only one who knows a secret the conquering Rynnians would kill for.
Passionless
![Gloria Liang](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/10093832/Author-Photo_10-25-2022-05-15-06-PM.png)
This piece was selected as an Honorable Mention in the First Chapters Contest, hosted in partnership with Penguin Random House and Electric Lit.
In the mechanized faction of Chronodale in the Velorath Coalition, humanoid dolls have been forbidden for their destructive power and lack of humanity. That’s the way it’s always been—or supposed to be, at least.
Ear wax/worm
This piece was selected as an Honorable Mention in the First Chapters Contest, hosted in partnership with Penguin Random House and Electric Lit.
This piece is intended to be the first chapter of a larger, semi autobiographical body of work that essentially criticizes the archetypes of men that have frustrated me throughout my life.
Rin, Haru, and Umi
![Sophia Li](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/22114916/Sophia-Li.jpg)
This piece was selected as an Honorable Mention in the First Chapters Contest, hosted in partnership with Penguin Random House and Electric Lit.
A boy who plays violin is nudged out of his shell.
Regnants
![Erina Rejo](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/24151748/Erina-Rejo.png)
This piece was selected as an Honorable Mention in the First Chapters Contest, hosted in partnership with Penguin Random House and Electric Lit.
For two years, every action Ariella had taken was infiltrated by her father’s opinions. Until, she discovered secrets her government had hidden for decades. Was she just a pawn in a much more complicated game?
Monumental
![Olivia Kim](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/10095517/Olivia-Kim.png)
This piece was selected as an Honorable Mention in the First Chapters Contest, hosted in partnership with Penguin Random House and Electric Lit
Couple in Training
![Kaia Boyer](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/10131226/kb.jpg)
This piece was selected as an Honorable Mention in the First Chapters Contest, hosted in partnership with Penguin Random House and Electric Lit.
Deja Evans and Vivian Wu are thrown into collaboration at summer camp after six months of no contact. Reluctantly, working together is the only option, even as the memories of their time together invade.
Offline
![Megan Ngo](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/03101819/mn.png)
![Molly Tansey](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/03102012/Molly-Tansey.png)
Told in a series of chat conversations, “Offline” tells the story of a writer who, fed up with his technology-assisted world, turns to the one thing he’s tried so hard to avoid: AI.
An Angel and a Keyboard
![Maya Collins](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/11152413/Maya-Collins-2.jpg)
The psych ward is more than a harsh, white, dehumanizing space in some psychological thriller. It is a place that stores life. And with life, beauty.
Maatrbhaasha
![Erina Rejo](https://gwn-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/24151748/Erina-Rejo.png)
To my family for showing me that love goes beyond the words we speak.