The Liar’s 2021 Open Text Writing and Design Contest
We are thrilled to announce the winners of The Liar’s 2021 Open Text Writing and Design Contest,
Each winner will be awarded $500 and will appear in our 2022 issue.
Read more about our winners below and follow our socials for new updates on our 2022 issue!
DESIGN WINNER Celina Zhong
WRITING WINNER Megan Vaghy
FINALISTS
Jenna Weind, Viola Baker, Samantha Wakelin
Writing
Mira Golembioski, Rebeca Spiegel, Grace Zhang,
Sasha McGrenera, Sofia Novarro.
WRITING CONTEST WINNER
The winners of the writing contest held in 2021 have been decided
Megan Vaghy
Megan spent much of her childhood moving internationally, armed with a suitcase, a notebook, and a wild imagination. Writing got her through the doldrums of airport layovers and the endless slog of long-haul flights, back in the dark ages when we all had to watch the same movie on the same aisle-mounted screens. These days, she’s a mostly stay-at-home mum, a part-time sales associate at a specialty wine shop, and champion Cap U ABE math procrastinator. Megan is also a former flight attendant, with a Diploma of Wine (it’s a real thing—not just code for ‘heavy drinker’), and she’s upgrading courses so she can go to nursing school. Her dream is to one day have a fold-out business card that contains a series of totally unrelated credentials.
Honorable mentions – “She Sat in Velvet Sadness” by Toni Dumais
She sat in velvet sadness by Toni Dumais She sat in velvet sadness, comforted and persistent to lay basked in the dark layers of righteous melancholy, where she undresses her deformity to be splayed out, and picked through. This is wrong, that is wrong. What is...
DESIGN CONTEST WINNER
The results of our design contest held in 2021 have been decided
CELINA ZHONG
‘Escape’
Celina Zhong is a second year IDEA student studying graphic design and illustration. Her illustration for The Liar stems from surrealism and the concept of escaping the mundane nature of reality.
Feel free to visit her Instagram @celinaa.jpg
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