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.