Results: The Nasiona Writing Prompts Tournament #6

Stephanie Tan is a 3rd-year student at Cornell University studying Communications and English. As an Asian-American woman, most of her writing focuses on the intersection between intergenerational trauma and the struggles that come with being a feminine presenting individual.

As a student at the University of Florida, I enjoy developing my writing skills in any way I can. Poetry has been a topic that I was once too scared to approach, but is now one of my favorite hobbies. I love writing as a method of de-stressing and working through complex emotion.

Jeddie Sophronius was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Virginia and the poetry editor at Meridian. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere.

Jessica Archambeau is a queer writer from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Currently an undergraduate student at Bradley University, their work blurs the lines between social advocacy and art. In addition to their creative writing work, they are a proud activist, illustrator/painter, and lover of all animals (even the slimy, scaly ones!).

I am a multiracial writer and a diversity, equity, and inclusion educator at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A graduate of GrubStreet’s memoir incubator and VONA, my writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Independent (UK), Cognoscenti, Hippocampus, The Seventh Wave, and Memoir Mixtapes.

Amy London is an award winning writer and storyteller. After surviving a traumatic brain injury in 2015, she turned to creative writing as part of her recovery. Her first non-fiction essay on brain injury was published in the anthology, Surviving Brian Injury: Stories of Strength and Inspiration. She followed by winning The Storyline Slam telling her disability story within the theme of “Magic.” She can be found online at www.amylondon.com.