Winners of the Creative Writing Contest

From the announcement of the contest:

Stories are a key part of how EA has grown since its beginning. Some examples:

There’s a lot of “rational fiction” out there — stories about people thinking clearly to solve problems. Many of those stories also incorporate EA themes. But they tend to reveal their ideas over dozens of chapters, making it hard for someone to pick up on those themes unless they’re willing to dedicate many hours of time.

We’d like to see creative work that “gets to the point” quickly — stories that, in a single sitting, might inspire someone to find out more about effective altruism, whether that means the whole movement or a single idea/​cause area/​intervention.

So we’re running a contest! We want to see you write or share stories and creative nonfiction with EA themes. And we’ve added prizes to sweeten the deal.[1]

Notably, your work doesn’t have to use EA jargon or cover a popular cause area, as long as it gets across the core idea of “using evidence and reason to help others effectively”.

Creative Writ­ing Con­test: The Win­ning Entries

The Un­weav­ing of a Beau­tiful Thing

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test][Fic­tion] Do Good Better

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] Count­ing the Living

[Creative Non­fic­tion] The Toba Su­per­vol­canic Eruption

The Detection

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] I See Dead Kids

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] Noumenon