It's time to vote!
We're excited to announce that five Harvard students are in the running for the Long Story Short Award this year! Click on their direct links below to vote for your favorites (or all of them)!
Voting happens by readers, from anywhere, accessing the site, reading stories, and then casting a vote (for as many stories as they like, but only once per story) at the bottom of each story's page. Full information on the guidelines can be found in the Contest Official Rules.
We hope you'll take a short break, read some student writing, and consider voting for your favorites!
The voting deadline is Tuesday, November 26 at 9am.
| First Name | Last Name | Story Title |
|---|---|---|
| Priyanka | Chahal | The Dreams She Chased: From Haryana to Harvard |
| Sanika | Ganesh | teenage chords |
| Sophia | Li | Shallow Waters |
| Jahnavi | Munagala | Once in A Pink Moon |
| K | V | The Descent |
Long Story Short Award
Contest details from the Short Édition website:
What better way to connect with fellow students from around the globe than through writing? To hear thousands of voices in all their glorious diversity and to give your creativity the platform it deserves? Enter your short story in the Long Story Short Award!
Starting October 8th, Short Édition (the makers of our Short Story Dispensers) invites students from all participating universities to submit their short stories of 7,500 characters or less for our annual inter-university contest, the Long Story Short Award 2024.
This year, the contest will feature an overarching theme, which will be revealed at the contest launch on October 8th.
Through this contest, we aim to provide a platform — both online and in our Short Story Dispensers — to share your stories. Your work will be published alongside those of fellow students from campuses worldwide, creating a bridge between thousands of students and fostering a global literary community.
Learn more at Long Story Short Award!
Short Story Dispensers
“The art of storytelling goes back more than 17,000 years to the earliest known place, the Lascaux Caves in southwestern France, where ancient stories are told through painted symbols on the walls of the caves.” - Short Édition’s website
Countway has partnered with Short Édition to bring the art of storytelling to the Longwood community via our interactive Short Story Dispenser and Short Story Cube! These devices provide short works of literature at the push of a button (or wave of a hand, as it were since they are now contactless), offering visitors to the library a chance to take a short break from their day. The works themselves come from a mix of public domain short fiction and poetry, as well as specially curated modern authors contracted with the publisher.
To visit our Short Story Dispenser, stop by the Countway Cafe, located right inside our Huntington Avenue entrance. There you will be able to choose a story based on your preferred length of reading time - 1 minute, 3 minutes, or 5 minutes. Keep an eye out for special thematic collections throughout the year!
To visit our Short Story Cube, head down to the Information Desk, located on Lower Level 1. There you will be able to choose between a traditional text-based story and, in a fun twist, a comic strip! Please note that during special events, the Short Story Cube may be unavailable as we do take it with us around campus.
Stories from both devices print on an eco-friendly paper, certified FSC and BPA-free, and print without inks.
For questions or comments about Countway’s Short Story initiative, please contact Matthew Noe.