Penguin Random House 2023 Creative Writing Awards

Through this programme, Penguin Random House will award college scholarships of up to $10,000 each to five public U.S. high school seniors, nationwide. Creative Writing Awards winners have gone on to become professional and award-winning authors. Since 1993, this programme has awarded more than $2.8 million dollars to public high school students for original poetry, memoir/personal essay, fiction/drama, and spoken-word compositions. This signature programme continues to empower and celebrate hundreds of young writers each year. Penguin Random House is passionate about encouraging the next generation of readers and authors and promoting diverse voices and stories. For more than 25 years, Penguin Random House has supported this mission through the Creative Writing Awards, which in 2019 entered into an innovative new partnership with national advocacy nonprofit We Need Diverse Books.