The third place winner for 2025 Julia Stewart Memorial Short Story contest is Bilge Bayhan of Fredericton.
You can read the story here: SALT
Bilge Bayhan is a high school student born in İstanbul who got shoved into writing back in grade six by her language arts teacher—and she just… never stopped. Most of her stories end up in the graveyard she calls Google Docs, but sometimes they make it out alive. She writes about everything from motorsport races to strange little short stories, usually at 2 a.m., when she should be sleeping. When she’s not writing, you’ll probably find her watching F1, painting something half-finished, or buried in a book.
