Vahe and Lucie Competition 2026, Best Photography, Second Place Winner: Lusine Poghosyan • 

For me it’s very hard to define what is to be considered a childhood memory and what is not. Is…

Vahe and Lucie Competition 2026, Best Poetry, Second Place Winner: Aleksandr Chobanyan, “Invocations of my child self” • 

Moments frozen in gelatin; only tangible proof that you were once here, only tangible proof that you were once me…

Vahe and Lucie Competition 2026, Best Journalistic Feature, Second Place Winner: Erika Sargsyan, “The Trailblazer of Post-Soviet” • 

There is something irritating about seeing a Zhiguli from 1999 on the modern streets of Yerevan. Probably because the air…

Vahe and Lucie Competition 2026, Best Poetry, First Place Winner: Sofya Banyan “for my father, whom i hardly knew” • 

when i am four, my mom knits a tiny ladybug into the edge of my bedsheet as a sign of…

Vahe and Lucie Competition 2026, Best Journalistic Feature, First Place Winner: Susanna Hakobyan, “Under the Candlelight: Growing up in The 1990s” • 

The day starts at 7:30 a.m. in suburban Yerevan as Sona Hakobyan has to get ready for school. Their house…

Vahe and Lucie Competition 2026, Best Fiction/Non-Fiction, First Place Winner: Anna Dashyan, “Why is Your TV So Loud?” • 

I believe I remember most of my childhood. I remember my favourite cartoons that I have liked since I was…
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