The Wade Edwards Foundation awards the annual Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award to the North Carolina high school junior who submits the year's most outstanding original work of short fiction.

The competition is supported by, and made possible because of the work of the North Carolina English Teachers Association and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.  The award is intended to reward excellence in creative writing and to encourage contemplation of virtues among high school students.

In their submitted short fiction, students are encouraged to consider and address one or more of the qualities associated with Wade Edwards -- humility, strength of convictions, loyalty, honor, charity, determination, the value of friendship, and the obligations of friendship and community.

Download a contest brochure and entry form (requires free Adobe Reader®).

The awards for this competition are:

$5,000 scholarship for the 1st place winner
$2,000 scholarship for the 2nd place winner
$1,000 scholarship for the 3rd place winner
$2,000 cash award for the 1st place winner's English department

Finalists are chosen through district wide competitions.

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                    2006 Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award Winners

                            First Place: Olivia Bowler, Watauga High School,
                                                            sponsored by William Watterson, "The Eye of the Beholder."

                                             Second Place: Kayla Combs, Watauga High School,
                                                            sponsored by William Watterson, "Saying Goodbye."

                                                Third Place: Brittany Morgan, North Moore High School,
                                                            sponsored by Nina Upchurch, "Metamorphosis."

2005 Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award Winners
First Place:  Ariel Rudolph, Watauga High School,
sponsored by William Watterson, "Finding the Way to the Moon."

Second Place, Lawrence J. Williams,  Middle Creek High School,
sponsored by Amy Christensen, “The Day of Manhood.”

Third Place, Nolan G. Heath, Apex High School,
sponsored by Kristropher Koechling,  “Cab Fare."

2004 Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award Winners

First Place: Alex Dalrymple, Enloe High School,
sponsored by Betty Timberlake, "The Pecan Tree."

Second Place: Marieke Mauro, Wakefield High School,
sponsored by  Canda Molinari, "Dragonfly."

Third Place:  Joanna Ng, Enloe High School, 
sponsored by Patricia Berini, "Home Away from Home."

2003 Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award Winners

 First Place: Seth Peavey, Enloe High School,
sponsored by Betty Timberlake, "Hope Among the Ashes."

 Second Place: Alex Shealy, Page High School,
sponsored by  Janet Ireland Trail, "Mr. Winston's Words."

Third Place:  Jessica Haywood, Watauga High School, 
sponsored by William B. Watterson, "In the Woods."

2002 Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award Winners

First Place: Jerry Mauro, Wakefield High School,
sponsored by Elizabeth Peeples, "Angels Dancing."

Second Place: Jessica Son, Enloe High School,
sponsored by Betty Timberlake, "The Yellow Daffodils."

Third Place: Katie Chamblee, Myers Park High School
sponsored by Patricia Berini, "63."

2001 Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award Winners

First Place: Neil F. Rudisill, Charlotte Country Day School,
sponsored by Julia M. Britt, "Blue Sky Over Red Earth."

Second Place: Chang Liu, Enloe High School,
sponsored by Betty Timberlake, "You Bing."

Third Place: Noah Raper, Madison High School,
sponsored by Allegra S. Aylward, "Hold On."

2000 Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award Winners

First Place: David Patrick Moses, III, Watauga High School,
sponsored by William B. Watterson, "The Storm."

Second Place: Cory Finneron, Watauga High School,
sponsored by William B. Watterson, "Scratch and Win."

Third Place: Laura Dehmer, East Chapel Hill High School,
sponsored by Mary Beth Braker, "Smoky Mountain Taffy Logs."

1999 Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award Winners

First Place: Kristin Denise Payne, Mount Airy High School,
sponsored by Aurie Ammerman, "Bearing the Bitter Cross."

Second Place: Kasey C. Poole, Shelby High School,
sponsored by Martha Moore, "Dawn to Dusk."

Third Place: Kirsten C. Brewer, Watauga High School,
sponsored by William Watterson, "My True Beloved One."

1998 Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award Winners

First Place: Alexis Blane Third Place: Celena Reynolds

Second Place: Susan Caroline Young Honorable Mention: Harold L. Jennings, Jr.

Honorable Mention: Keith Beams

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