Lam Wing Sam Literary Award 554 winning works will be circulated forever

The 22nd Lam Rong Sam Literary Award was announced yesterday. Lin Honglian (2nd from right), chairman of the organizer, the Lam Rong Sam Cultural Charity Foundation, attended the award ceremony and took a group photo with the three first prize winners, namely Lai Jiaqi (from right), the first prize for short story, Su Shaolian, the first prize for new poetry, and Chen Qunyao, the first prize for prose. There are also 10 winners of the essay award, regardless of ranking.

This year, a total of 3,102 entries were received, which is the highest number of entries among all domestic literary award single-article competitions. The four awards went through 10 preliminary, second, and final review meetings, and a review team of 51 writers, scholars, and literary editors was assembled to select 25 winners. A total of 554 recipients of the Lam Wing Sam Literary Award have been awarded so far. The works of each edition are collected into volumes and permanently circulated on the Internet and in libraries.