Winners of the 2019 Young Writers Workshop Announced
Jiang Boyan, LLC, the strategic partner of Beijing OpenBook, is pleased to present the winners of “China’s Young Writer Workshop” campaign held by the Professional Committee under Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
According to Yang Honying, “Their literary and writing backgrounds are made up of infinite imagination, excellent language control ability and childlike aesthetic taste. This is the future of literature.”
Candidates are students from all primary and secondary schools nationwide, and are selected by rounds of writing competitions. By spending their summer time in Beijing, finalists are able to participate in the closed training with face-to-face guidance from the famous writers. At the end of the workshop, through appraisal and selection by expert committee, students who finished qualified fictions would be able to sign with the committee as “Young Writers”. Thus, their works will be promoted and published by domestic and foreign media and publishing houses.
The workshop has a strong team of mentors, with famous children’s literature writer Yang Hongying as the chief supervisor. Mentors teach candidates writing skills in person in order to inspire the students’ perception, imagination and thinking ability.
Other mentors include:
- Shen Shixi, also known as “the king of animal novels in China”;
- Zhang Zhilu, the winner of Hans Christian Andersen prize in China;
- Xiong Jing, with pen name Xiao Ni Zi, is a famous writer in youth school literature; and
- Zou Zou, a popular female writer.
This year is the third session of the workshop since the first held in summer 2017. Selected from more than 50,000 candidates across the country, the students have completed a number of creative works, including fairy tales, science fiction, fantasy, campus and other categories.
The phrase “strong youths lead to a strong field of literature” encourages young writers. With writers as teachers, young writers will be able to bring their original thoughts and in-depth thinking into their works, and further make their own chapters in the future history of literature.
Quality content recognized by industry experts:
“Excellent quality, unique style, these works are rare excellent. There’s a lot of creativity and a lot of literary potential.”
–by Li Chaoquan (deputy director of creative research department of China writers association; famous literary critic; jury member of Lu Xun Literature Prize and Mao Dun Prize for Literature)
“Their works shine with the pure beauty of youth and dream of the boundless world. Their sky is vast.”
–by Wang Xuming (former spokesman of the Ministry of Education)
“So young and so energetic, so smart and so poetic, their works give us infinite space to inspire the beauty of the world.”–by Bao Mingde (professor of literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; jury member of Lu Xun Literature Prize and Mao Dun Prize for Literature)
LIST OF WINNERS:
- Wang Shuning
- Chen Zeya
- Qi Miaotian
- Wei Huilan
- Zhang Tongshu
- Wen Xinya
- Li Ziyan
- Wang Qingjun
- Jin Yuhan
- Li Ruiwen
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Yang Hongying is one of the most successful and popular Chinese children authors in modern time. Yang Hongying is a leading voice of China today. She is the author with a largest circulation of original children’s literature, creating a miracle of children’s reading in China. She is the chief supervisor of Young Writer Workshop in China.
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences leads the Professional Committee of Chinese Language Teaching In Chinese Contemporary Literature Research, which is a national academic organization specialized in the study of chinese teaching and the testing of ability levels in primary, secondary and primary schools. At present, Professional Committee of Chinese Language Teaching In Chinese Contemporary Literature Research is the only domestic academic and research entity of Chinese language through the children, primary schools, secondary schools and universities. The committee is dedicated on training teachers and cultivating young writers, in order to publish quality literature for future.
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