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2024 Flash Essay Contest
Karen Kao Flash Contest Results 2025
March 20, 2026
The editors of Sweet are so pleased to announce the winner for 2025 Karen Kao Creative Nonfiction Flash Essay contest. Winner Kimberly Kearns for "The...
Interviews
Remembering Karen Kao: Frans Verhagen
November 20, 2025
Interview with Karen Kao’s husband, Frans Verhagen CS: Do you have a story that comes to mind when thinking about what the writing process meant...
Interviews
Remembering Karen Kao: Dinty Moore
November 13, 2025
CS: Is there a memory that sticks out for you from your experience with Karen Kao in a workshop? If so, would you mind...
2024 Flash Essay Contest
Karen Kao
July 1, 2025
And Before That I woke with a yellow film in my eyes as if someone had soft-boiled my eyeballs. I called my family doctor but...
2024 Flash Essay Contest
Flash Contest Results 2024
April 3, 2025
We apologize for the delay in announcing the winners of this contest. While notifying the winners, we learned that our winner, Karen Kao passed...
Creative Nonfiction
Karen Kao
February 20, 2024
Food Fight Grandma was born in 1892 in a village south of Shanghai, the name of which has been lost to family history. It might...
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