Inaugural MC Essay Competition Concludes

In addition to its annual Photography Competition, Morningside held its first ever Essay Competition this year. The Morningside College Essay Competition was open to all undergraduate students of CUHK, inviting them to submit their original, narrative nonfiction essays of 2,500 words or less in English for a top prize of 3,000 HKD and publication in the Morningside College Magazine. The theme for the Essay Competition was ‘Soundscapes’, while for the Photography Competition the three categories were ‘Duet’, ‘Distortion’, and ‘Decay’.

Hong Kong writer Karen Cheung, author of The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, was the guest judge for the Essay Competition, while Morningside Fellow Professor Benny Lim was the guest judge for the Photography Competition. On Thursday 17 April, the winners of each competition were announced at Morningside’s Formal Hall Dinner and awarded prizes by the guest judges. The award winners were:

Morningside College Essay Competition (read winning essays here):

1^st Place – “Life Notes” by Nalini Dhiman, Morningside College
2^nd Place – “The Violin and the Wheelchairs: Nine Years of Music at Life's Edge” by Suan Yeon, Morningside College
3^rd Place – “Echoes Of The Hush” by Ariel Migliorini Mercado, Morningside College

Morningside College Photography Competition:

Overall Grand Prize and 1^st Place in Duet: “Kidden” by Thomas Xu, Morningside College
2^nd Place in Duet: “Hot Scotch” by Charlene Chung, Chung Chi College
Student Choice in Duet: “Echos” by Charlotte Ng, Morningside College
1^st Place in Distortion: “Moving distortion” by Amicie Lebourdais, Amsterdam University College, Morningside College Exchange 2024-2025
2^nd Place in Distortion: “Beyond the Wires” by Thomas Xu, Morningside College
Student Choice in Distortion: “A City in Motion” by Chiara Monica Prasojo, Morningside College
1^st Place and Student Choice in Decay: “Echoes of the Sunbeam” by Ng Ching Man, Shaw College
2^nd Place in Decay: “eternal resonance made by faded outside” by Giselle Shao, Morningside College