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Kyoto Kita Short Story Award きょうときたたんぺんぶんがくしょう

Edition 2 (2023)

Short story

Winners

3 people
黒田季菜子 くろだ きなこ best award

A Kyoto Kita Short Story Award piece about a sister and her brother, who uses a wheelchair, as they rediscover family time through photography.

Taking photographs becomes a way to see the city and themselves anew.

familyKyotophotographycoming of age
おぎなお紺 おぎなお こん excellence award

A top-prize Kyoto Kita Short Story Award work that follows the meaning of home where memory and the present overlap in northern Kyoto.

Home emerges in the space between the past and the present.

familylocal memoryKyotoshort story
ひぐち紀 ひぐち のり Funaokayama Award

A Kyoto Kita Short Story Award finalist piece in which an onmyoji hunts down a guardian dog that has slipped out of the gate at Kamigamo Shrine.

When the guardian dog escapes, the story crosses into the boundaries of the old capital.

fantasyKyotoguardian dogonmyoji