Amazing results at the „Swiss Creative Writing Prize“ competition 2022 and 2023

Students of the  Advanced Creative Writing Class dominate the »Swiss Creative Writing Prize« competition in 2022 as well as 2023

As the results of the „Swiss Creative Writing Prize“ are only published after we honour our students at a special event in May, we would also like to honour the students of the Advanced Creative Writing Class of 2022, who took part in the national competition in 2022, as well as the students who made it onto the 2023 shortlist this year and received a prize:

Swiss Creative Writing Prize for Short Stories 2022
3^rd place: Jil Hug (former G3C, now G4C) for her short story »Radio Silence«.

Swiss Creative Writing Prize for Poetry 2022
2^nd place: Carole Meier (former G2C, now G3C) for her poem »Nothing Left«.

Shortlisted: Vrinda Arora (former G2A, now G3A) und Sulamith Tamborriello (former G4A)

On April 27^th, 2023 the Shortlist 2023 was published. Of all the short stories and poems submitted, twenty were selected, ten each for the Short Story Prize and ten for the Poetry Prize. The twenty young authors were allowed to take part in a workshop in Lucerne and the final award ceremony as they were considered possible winners of the Swiss Creative Writing Prize 2023. Five of them, meaning a quarter fourth of the shortlist, are KSWE students. No other school in Switzerland has so many students on the shortlist (only two other schools were able to place two students each on the shortlist, these are Hofwil and Olten). Congratulations to the students for this wonderful result. Shortlisted are:

Short Story Prize 2023 Shortlist
Jil Hug (G4C), Strawberry Fields Forever
Carole Meier (G3C), Did We Do It?

Poetry Prize 2023 Shortlist
Leonie Haag (G2I), Greatest Sin
Nienke Nachtegaal (G4B), Lion
Vrinda Arora (G3A), The Galaxy Within Me

At the final award ceremony, Jil Hug (G4C) won the 3^rd prize for the second time in a row, this year for her short story  Strawberry Fields Forever.