Winners of the ELTU Creative Writing Competition 2025
CREATIVE NONFICTION
1st Place
Ana Paula Carbonell Díaz
“Is it so bad that I lied”
2nd Place
Wen Airan
“The Inertia of Rain”
Honourable Mention
Maya Riminucci
“How I Learned to Cook (and to Be Alone)”
Honourable Mention
Wong Hung Wah, Helen
“Between the Mirror and the Mask”
POETRY
1st Place
Law Yuen Tong, Phoebe
“Fare Well”
2nd Place
Wen Airan, Ariel
“The Idealist Cooks”
Honourable Mention
Ana Paula Carbonell Díaz
“hidden truth”
Honourable Mention
ka Po Wong, Joyce
“Choose your Poison”
Honourable Mention
LEE, Ying Sin Tracy
“Strawberry Truths”
Honourable Mention
Nathan Fung
“Lucifer”
SHORT STORY
1st Place
Chung Yan Sing, Joshua
“Perfect Li(f)e”
2nd Place
Yeung Hoi Lok, Hillary
“The Prophet’s Truth”
Honourable Mention
Lyu Xinran, Lillian
“Log: First Godfall Crater Expedition Concluded. March 16, 2023”
Honourable Mention
Lu Christian Cai
“Boy”
Winners of the ELTU Creative Writing Competition 2024
CREATIVE NONFICTION
1st Place
Stef
“The Nature and Logic of a Frog”
2nd Place
Himson
“Miriam Choi”
Honourable Mention
Marco Sitio
“Distant Memories: A Lament for Lost Time”
POETRY
1st Place
Marco Yung
“BFF”
2nd Place
Marco Yung
“0317am, From Another Place”
Honourable Mention
Ariel Airan Wen
“Sea Fish (Still Alive)”
Honourable Mention
Yikiu
“a letter that was never written”
Honourable Mention
Yikiu
“you are:”
Honourable Mention
Ningwa Shakti Limbu
“My Face”
SHORT STORY
1st Place
Mono Chow
“Interspace of Ions”
2nd Place
Careese Poon
“An Expected Goodbye”
Honourable Mention
Ariel Airan Wen
“Green”
Honourable Mention
Lam Tsz Hei Errin
“Twelve Hours Away”
Winners of the ELTU Creative Writing Competition 2023
POETRY
1st Place
Lyn
“Time of a Genius”
2nd Place
Chu Yiu Kwan
“Our Threads”
Honourable Mention
Amanda C
“Rabbit Holes”
Honourable Mention
Rabindra Gurung
“Comeuppance”
Honourable Mention
Andres Chan
“The Cycle of Ages”
Honourable Mention
Ariel Wen
“Warfield Reading”
SHORT STORY
1st Place
Law Yuen Tong
“The Games We Play”
2nd Place
Lam Tsz Hei Errin
“Glass”
Honourable Mention
John Cheung
“The Rise of Dawn”
Honourable Mention
Lee Chien Chien
“Apparitional Guidance”
Honourable Mention
Casey Law
“The Last Winter”
Winners of the ELTU Creative Writing Competition 2022
CREATIVE NONFICTION
1st Place
Johnny Chan Sheung Chun
“The Vanishing of My Good Old Days”
2nd Place
Ningwa Shakti Limbu
“We Are Not of Anywhere”
Honourable Mention
Audrey Wong
“The Art of Awakening”
POETRY
1st Place
Ariel Wen
“Un-girly”
2nd Place
Ben Chu
“Tribe”
Honourable Mention
Eva Chong
“7 years in a dream”
Honourable Mention
Rabindra Gurung
“Sleep is just death pretending to be shy”
Honourable Mention
Janice Lam
“The currency of fate”
Honourable Mention
Dandelion Lee
“Overflow”
Honourable Mention
Anas Nadeem
“Cyclic Minds”
Honourable Mention
Ariel Wen
“Leng Neoi”
Honourable Mention
Stephanie Wu Sin Yan
“My Person”
SHORT STORY
1st Place
Himson To
“The Reason I Wake Up”
2nd Place
Rabindra Gurung
“The Voyage of Salam”
Honourable Mention
Ariel Wen
“Coffee Choice”
Winners of the ELTU Creative Writing Competition 2021
Honourable Mention
Coco Yu
“How to Survive a Fast-paced Life 101: Food Edition”
MEMOIR
1st Place
Stephanie Studzinski
“Cane You or Can’t You: Perception and Visible and Invisible Disabilities”
2nd Place
Michelle Yau Ming Suet
“It’s not as bad as you see”
POETRY
1st Place
Maleah Do Cao
“No.”
2nd Place
Corrine Cheung
“Because I could not stop for Death”
Honourable Mention
Charlotte Chan Sze Lok
“Empty Box”
Honourable Mention
Cyrus Chan
“Wanderer”
Honourable Mention
Cyrus Chan
“The Gray Constellation”
Honourable Mention
Élise Chan
“Brewing of Spring”
Honourable Mention
Marta Gramatyka
“Another diary of a madman”
Honourable Mention
Demi Huang Qian
“Our 18, our gone days”
Honourable Mention
Pinky Lui
“A Ballad for Her”
Honourable Mention
Stephanie Studzinski
“ourselves, alone”
Honourable Mention
Chloe Wong
“The Corpse Underground”
SHORT STORY
1st Place
Maheen Haider
“AND WHEN THE RAIN COMES, I FEEL IT IN MY BONES”
2nd Place
Stephanie Studzinski
“The Extraordinary Ordinary: Finding Felicity in Four Rooms”
Honourable Mention
Jing Chan
“Two Sisters”
Honourable Mention
Serag Heiba
“Tomorrow, A Rose”
Honourable Mention
Katrina Lee Yuen Yi
“Parallel”
Honourable Mention
Jess Luyan
“To Believe or not to Believe that is the Question”
Winners of the ELTU Creative Writing Competition 2020
1st Place
Stephanie Studzinski
“Instant Noodle Reflections: Feeding a Pandemic Appetite”
2nd Place
Winnie Lam Wai
“A Companion to My Nomadic Adult Life: Szechuan Fish Stew with Pickled Mustard Greens”
Honourable Mention
Tung Ka Long
“HOTPOT; AND THE REFLECTION OF SOLITUDE AND COMPANIONSHIP”
MEMOIR
1st Place
Emilia Wong Sze Man
“Feverish Utterance”
2nd Place
Johanna Chan
“Reminiscence in the Garden”
Honourable Mention
Jing Chan
“Sharpened”
Honourable Mention
Charlotte Tiffany Fung
“Because I Am”
Honourable Mention
Winnie Lam Wai
“Anna Karenina Principle”
POETRY
1st Place
Gladys Lam Lok Ching
“You and I”
2nd Place
Emily H. Olsson
“Innocence”
Honourable Mention
Kassandra Lai
“The Koala”
Honourable Mention
Hysan Lam
“Reason VS. Feeling – A Poem on Jane Eyre”
Honourable Mention
Emily H. Olsson
“Mother, May I”
Honourable Mention
Anju Otsuka
“Rising Above”
Honourable Mention
Charmaine Wong
“Dear Self”
Honourable Mention
Stephanie Wu Sin Yan
“List”
Honourable Mention
Stephanie Wu SIn Yan
“Surgery”
SHORT STORY
1st Place
Emms Chan
“My Days on Cassiopeia”
2nd Place
Emily H. Olsson
“The White Wolf”
Honourable Mention
Cindy Chung Jing Wo
“The Silk Road”
Honourable Mention
Kelly Lam Man Hei
“Washing Machine”
Honourable Mention
Nicholas Yu Pak Hei
“Needle and Thread”