WiPS Short Story Competition for Young Writers
Past Winners
The theme of the 2018 competition was “Our Green Planet”. Entries came from an array of schools across Hong Kong, providing stories that were highly imaginative in both content and genre choice. This was Women in Publishing Society’s eighteenth student writing competition.
First Place
“Now You See It, Now You Don’t” by Queena Lau
Good Hope School
Second Place
“Timeless Verdant” by Karis Ng
Good Hope School
Third Place
“Voluntary Orbit” by Jocelyn Cheung
Good Hope School
We thank the judges, WiPS members Celia Claase, Barbara Gregor and Janet Mann, for once again lending their expertise to selecting the best stories from among so many entries. The winning stories are featured here in Imprint.
The winners received cash prizes from WiPS to the value of HK$1,000, HK$600 and HK$400 respectively. Thank you also to Bookazine for generously providing goodie bags of books to each of the winners.
Congratulations to all the young aspiring writers who took part!
