Eligibility
This contest is open to students ages 13 to 19 who are in middle school or high school around the world. College students cannot submit an entry.
The Contest
Can you tell a meaningful and interesting true story from your life in just 100 words? That’s the challenge they posed to teenagers last fall with our first-ever 100-Word Personal Narrative Contest, a storytelling form popularized by Modern Love’s Tiny Love Stories series.
Your tiny memoir should be a short, powerful, true story about a meaningful experience from your own life. It must be 100 words or fewer, not including the title. You must be a student ages 13 to 19 in middle school or high school to participate, and all students must have parent or guardian permission to enter. The work should be fundamentally your own — it should not be plagiarized, written by someone else or generated by artificial intelligence.
Rules
Please read these rules carefully before submitting an entry. You can find more details in the Frequently Asked Questions section below.
Your tiny memoir should be a short, powerful, true story about a meaningful experience from your own life.
It must be 100 words or fewer, not including the title.
You must be a student ages 13 to 19 in middle school or high school to participate, and all students must have parent or guardian permission to enter. Please see the F.A.Q. section for additional eligibility details.
The work should be fundamentally your own — it should not be plagiarized, written by someone else or generated by artificial intelligence.
Your piece should also be original for this contest, meaning, it should not have been published anywhere else at the time of submission, such as in a school newspaper.
Keep your audience in mind. You’re writing for a family newspaper, so, for example, no curse words, please.
Only one entry per student is allowed. And while many of our contests allow students to work in teams, for this one you must work alone.
New for 2023: As part of your submission, you must also submit an “artist’s statement” that describes your process. These statements, which will not be used to choose finalists, help us to design and refine our contests. See the F.A.Q. below to learn more.
All entries must be submitted by Nov. 1, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific using the submission form at the bottom of this post. Entries submitted via the comments section will not be read by our judges.
The last date of submission is November 1, 2023.
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