Rowayat runs fiction competitions across a range of participating categories, including school and university students, specialized children’s competitions for the under-14 age groups, as well as other thematic categories. We are proud to give younger writers the opportunity to publish their work and share it with the world.
Below is a list of our competition winners to date.
Fifth competition winner – university category :
Easy Come, Easy Go
Fifth competition winner – school category :
Hagar
Fourth competition winner – university category :
Hope Like Stars
Fourth competition winner – school category :
The Darkness Within
Fourth competition winner – Unsold Stories :
Pearl
Third competition winners – Our Young Writers (Under-10s):
The Magical Key
Third competition winner – Our Young Writers (Under-12s):
Aladdin And The Woodcutter
Third competition winner – Our Young Writers (Under-14s):
Alice in Alex
Second competition winner – university category :
The Palm’s Poem
Second competition winner – school category :
Anna Christina Olson
First competition winner :
Musée des Beaux Arts
Runner-Ups
Fifth competition:
University category:
First runner-up: Mahmoud Oraby for his poem 32 blue and others
Second runner-up: Yosra Hamouda for her poem The Picture and others
Third runner-up: Dina Hekal for her short story Lost Times
School category:
First runner-up: Aliaa Tarek Kamal for her short story Ain’t them bodies saints?
Second runner-up: Norhan Khaled for her poetry Comparing Deaths and others
Third runner-up: Salma Ezzat for her short story Precious
Fourth competition:
Unsold Stories category:
First runner-up: Kay Merkel Boruf for Yerba
Second runner-up: Kehkashan Khalid for The Man Who Could Not Change the World
Third runner-up: Chris Iovenko for Selling
Fourth runner-up: Lamia Ayman Salah for Three Euros and Fifty Cents
Third competition:
8-10 age category:
First runner-up: Vittoria Fumelli for Pinnocchio The Rock
Second runner-up: Emmett Leo for Jack and the Pyramid
Third runner-up: Maya Dallal for Rapunzel
10-12 age category:
First runner-up: Emma Lacchini for Tom and Jerry’s Dangerous Christmas
Second runner-up: Rania Baelz for Cinderella Reloaded
Third runner-up: Noran Angeel for Let it Go By
12-14 age category:
First runner-up: Norhan Khaled Mohamed for The Past Explained
Second runner-up: Zeina Hani for Mirror Mirror
Third runner-up: Youmna Waleed Faisal for My Life
Second competition:
University category:
First runner-up: Lina Emad Elkordy for Among the Wreckage
Second runner-up: Yasmin Radwan for Nail Polish
Third runner-up: Yasmin Abu Halawa for Home
Fourth runner-up: Yossra Hamouda for The Camera, The Chorus, and The Chair
School category:
First runner-up: Hoda ElSayed for Little Numbers
Second runner-up: Miriam Elbayady for The Ostrich
Third runner-up: Mohamed Moataz for Way to the Everlasting Home
Fourth runner-up: Jamilla Soliman for her poetry
First competition:
Shot story category:
First runner-up: Ali Ahmed for his story Under the Desert Sun
Second runner-up: Aya Zain for her story A Bus Ride
Third runner-up: Mohamed Hedar for his story A Dove Who Flies Above
Fourth runner-up: Baher Ibrahim for his story A Chance
Poetry category:
First runner-up: Sherif Khairy for Hail the King and other poems
Second runner-up: Mariam Elsherbini for Burnt Roses
Third runner-up: Hoda Elsayed for Societal Damages and other poems
Fourth runner-up: Malaka El-Gammal for Remembering