SoLit And UTC Announce Winners Of Young Southern Student Writers Contest

  • Tuesday, April 22, 2025

SoLit, in partnership with UTC, has named the winners of the 2025 Young Southern Student Writers contest. 320 students from area schools were selected as winners from 3,000 submissions.

Four high school students received the contest’s top honor, the Prevost Awards for Outstanding Poetry and Prose, and will each receive a cash prize: Isla Wilson (Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts), Sarah Moss (Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts), Anna Neal (Signal Mountain High School) and Helen Chen (Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts).

The award ceremony, presented by EPB and the First Horizon Foundation and sponsored by Publix, will be held next Monday at UTC’s Roland Hayes Concert Hall at 752 Vine St. 

The program schedule is as follows: grades K-third – 5 p.m., grades fourth-sixth – 6:15 p.m.

and grades seventh-12th – 7:30 p.m. All contest winners will be presented with a distinction of merit medal, and their work will be published in an electronic booklet. 

For more information, visit solitchatt.org.

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