Can you tell a meaningful and interesting true story from your life in just 100 words? That’s the challenge we posed to teenagers this fall with our 100-Word Personal Narrative Contest, a storytelling form popularized by Modern Love’s Tiny Love Stories series.
The answer, we discovered, was a resounding yes. Students from all over the world — 12,448 of them — answered our call with 100-word stories about moments from their lives big and small, funny and heartwarming, ordinary and extraordinary. From those thousands of submissions, our judges selected 82 finalists — 13 winners, 23 runners-up and 46 honorable mentions.
We hope you will take the time to read the winning essays. These miniature memoirs captured our judges’ hearts round after round and showed us how, sometimes, all you need is a few sentences to tell a compelling story.
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