13-06-2025
Dystopian tale by Auburn student impresses judges in national creative writing contest
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Nasia Morehead, a student at Auburn, won a creative writing competition for a short story about preserving history in a dystopian future.
Nasia Morehead won the International Creative Writing Competition for the 'Future Problem Solving Program.'
At the finals, which took place at Indiana University, she was randomly assigned a prompt, 'the future of history,' asking how humans might preserve history for the future.
In two hours, she wrote a short story that follows a woman who has been implanted with historical knowledge as eras of history begin to vanish from people's memories.
'I was just very surprised – I'm happy. Cause I do imagine things a lot. I'm just happy it came out on paper the way I thought it would,' she said.
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