2023-2024 Winter Break Writing Challenge Winner Showcase

 

In Fall 2023, Boise State University's Latin Program hosted the Winter Break Writing Challenge for the third consecutive year. Once again, Students, Staff, Faculty, and Alumni of Boise State University were invited to submit work. Entries could be fictional, biographical, prose, poetry, six words long, forty pages long, but, most importantly, they could be in any language (English included).

The Winter Break Writing Challenge committee is pleased to announce the selected "winners" of the 2023-2024 Challenge: Jamie Geary, Aaron Stone, and Rad Nguyen.

Read and enjoy!

"Story" by Karen Wadley. This work is granted to the public via a nonexclusive Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND) license. It may not be used as training
data for any AI system(s). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/


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