YWCR AWARD WINNERS
April 2025
Nisha Guzman Grover
Cleveland Charter High School
$1,000
April 2025
Noelle Kim
Fairmont Preparatory Academy
$1,000
April 2025
Isabella Charpentier
San Juan Hills High School
$1,000
YOUNG WOMEN OF COLOR READ ESSAY CONTEST INFORMATION
Eligible Participants
Annual Essay Contest
Eligible Participants: The Young Women of Color Read annual essay contest is open to 12th grade women students who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color (BIPOC) and are enrolled in high schools in California.
YWCR Winners’ Financial Awards
Two winners will receive a financial award of $1,000 each.
Contest Deadline
The deadline is 12 noon, PST, March 31st. No late entries will be accepted.
YWCR Contest Essay Writing Prompt
Describe how your fiction or nonfiction book changed your views/perspectives or made you think differently about an issue.
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Sandra Cisneros
Author
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other people’s eyes. All good books do this.
Ntozake Shange
Playwright
I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive.