Michelle Obama Award Will Celebrate High School Memoir Writers

By Bry'onna Mention· Updated October 12, 2022

The Michelle Obama Award for Memoirs is officially up for grabs.

Penguin Random House announced the retitling of the prize in its more than 25-year-old Creative Writing Awards program, on Wednesday. Co-administered with the grassroots organization We Need Diverse Books, the Michelle Obama prize will provide a $10,000 college scholarship to a high school senior in public school, based on an autobiographical English-language composition. 

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