Chicago area high school students can enter a writing competition and win up to $500.
Chicago Literary Hall of FameThe Randall Albers Young Writers Award is open to all Chicago-area students currently enrolled in grades nine through 12.
The award honors one of Chicago's most beloved literary dignitaries, Randall Albers, and celebrates the literary gifts of Chicago's youth. This year's inaugural award will honor young writers of fiction and non-fiction, and offers a a $500 award to the first-place winner. Finalists will receive awards in the following amounts: $250 to second place, $150 to third place and $100 to fourth place.
Each winner will also receive a writing consultation with one of the editors for DePaul's Blue Book: Best American High School Writing 2023, and their winning pieces may be eligible for inclusion in the publication. The winner and finalists will be announced in late April and honored at an awards ceremony on Saturday, May 13th, 2023 at the Harold Washington Library Center (registration link
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