Welcome to the Autumn 2023 issue of Folyosó, which features its fourth international contest and much more! Students from South Africa, Turkey, Poland, and Hungary (Sárospatak and Szolnok) entered their pieces in this year’s contest (on the themes of “freedom” and “mistakes”); this issue features the winners. In addition, you will find essays, stories, cover art by Emese Kassai, and more.
Folyosó has been in existence for more than three years. For this we thank our contributors, readers, and contest judges!
International Contest 1: Freedom
- Folyosó Award (a special award for substance, merit, and originality): Szymon Kochański (3 Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Agnieszki Osieckiej w Sopocie, Sopot, Poland), The Power of The Word – The Weakness of Will
- First Place: Nil İrigül (Lycée Sainte Pulchérie, Istanbul, Turkey), What My Father Taught Me
- Second Place: Eszter Forvith (Varga Katalin Gimnázium, Szolnok, Hungary), Tom
- Third Place: Fatma Irmak Tuncel (Lycée Sainte Pulchérie, Istanbul, Turkey), The Ballad of the Moon
- Fourth Place: Nilüfer Doğanca (Lycée Sainte Pulchérie, Istanbul, Turkey), The Abstract Obstacle
- Honorable mention: Fanni Farkas (Varga), Prisoner; Janka Krech (Varga), A Different Angle; Léda Karmazin (Varga), There Must Be; Ella Reynolds (Pinelands High School, Cape Town, South Africa), The Room with No Soul; Márk Kovács (Varga), The Bird
International Contest 2: Mistakes
- First Place: Luca Türk (Árpád Vezér Gimnázium, Sárospatak, Hungary), My Diary
- Second Place: Dominik Nemcsok (Varga Katalin Gimnázium, Szolnok, Hungary), Mistakes
- Third Place: Mira Melinda Csépe (Varga Katalin Gimnázium, Szolnok, Hungary), I Miss You
- Fourth Place: Ivett Csenge Csehi (Árpád Vezér Gimnázium, Sárospatak, Hungary), Everybody Makes Mistakes
- Honorable mention: Márk Gál (Varga), Why Are Mistakes Important?; Áron Kaposvári (Varga), Mistakes – Good or Bad; Ceren Selimata (Lycée Sainte Pulchérie), Not Hating Them, Just Thriving By Them; Dániel Darabos (Árpád Vezér Gimnázium), A Fatal Error
Reflections on The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
(Students either applied the quote “human kind / Cannot bear very much reality”—from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets—to The Glass Menagerie or wrote a letter to one of the characters.)
- Zsombor Górán, When Nothing Changes
- Eszter Forvith, Taming the Harshness
- Márk Gál, Not Knowing Reality
- Csongor Veres, Letter from a Personal Trainer
- Adrienn Földi, An Unfixable Life
- Áron Kaposvári, Letter to Tom
- Jázmin Juhász, Avoidance
- Viktória Wilujeng Botka, Accept the Reality or Distract Yourself, Escape It?
- Léda Karmazin, Letter to Laura
- Gergely Kiss, Letter to Tom
- Márk Kovács, Letter from Tom to Laura
- Nóra Molnár, Letter from Jim to Laura
- Sára Timár, Reality’s Unease
Stories
- Hanna Abigél Algay, Brian West
- Sára Forgács, An Unexpected Return
- Zaránd Lánczi, My Dream
- Nóra Solti, The Unexpected Holiday
- Zoárd Varga, An Unlikely Victory
More on Freedom
- Julia Czajka (3 Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Agnieszki Osieckiej w Sopocie, Sopot, Poland), I Only Swim in the Dark in My Room
- Donát Balogh, The Story of a Bird
- Léna Varga, That Will Be My Freedom
- Márk Gál, Freedom Balanced with Rules
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Cover art: Emese Kassai.
The contributors to this issue are students of the Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok, Hungary; the Árpád Vezér Gimnázium in Sárospatak, Hungary; Pinelands High School in Cape Town, South Africa; the Lycée Sainte Pulchérie in Istanbul, Turkey; and the 3 Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Agnieszki Osieckiej w Sopocie in Sopot, Poland.