Sosena Audain

soh-seh-nuh oh-duhn | she, her, hers

Sosena Audain is a rising high school senior based in Washington, D.C. She enjoys writing, reading classics, composing a-capella versions of pop songs, drinking matcha, and thrifting anything that could blend into the forest. She doesn’t own any pets, but she wants a bunny, a cat, a duck, and a guinea pig so they can all be friends. Please give her song recommendations.

Publications

Address

Coming Soon!

Sosiology

Coming Soon!

Blue Marble Review (2024): “Someday I’ll Grieve Sosi Audain”Fleeting Daze Magazine (2024): “what is language outside the body but”Disjointed Magazine (2024): “wisdom teeth surgery”Eunoia Review (2025): “3 hour long playlist.”

Awards & Accolades

National Silver Medal, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: “As the Tide Drifts In” (Short Story, 2025)First Class Distinction, National Council for Teachers of English: “To Be Explored” (Creative Nonfiction, 2025)Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalist (2025)Finalist, Bennington Young Writers Award: “Twisted” (Fiction, 2025)Gold Key, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards: “i/i” (Poetry, 2025); “As the Tide Drifts In” (Short Story, 2025); The GIVID (Novel Writing, 2021)Silver Key, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards: “ode to blackness” (Poetry, 2025); “panama getaway” (Poetry, 2025); “wisdom teeth surgery” (Poetry, 2025); “Twisted” (Flash Fiction, 2025); “GDS Begins First Fall Without Burghardt in Last 50 Years” (Journalism, 2025)Honorable Mention, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Poetry, 2024)Fourth Place, Dr. J Mosee Young Writers Competition (Short Story, 2024)Finalist, The Eric Hoffer Award (Novel, 2021)Distinguished Favorite, Independent Press Award (Novel, 2021)

Activities

National Youth Poet Laureate Program
Montgomery County Youth Poet AmbassadorThe Looking Glass Review
Assistant Editor-in-ChiefThe Literacy Cohort
FounderPolyphony Lit
Teaching Assistant, Executive Editor, Contest JudgeDistrict Court of the United States
Summer Intern

Programs

Yale Young Global Scholars
Literature, Philosophy, and Culture (2025)Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program
Fiction (2025)Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop
Attendee (2024)Sewanee Young Writers Conference
Fiction (2024)Columbia Pre College Summer Programs
Novel Writing Intensive (2022)

Address brings the readers through an espionage painted murder mystery dotted with enticing government secrets. Inspired by works commonly known in the spy world such as the James Bond series and Kingsman series, but also in the mystery realm such as A Study in Scarlet and And Then There Were None, Address combines these two elements and follows the kick-butt cast of Braum Madaki, Camilla Rivera, and Henry Chu as they discover the truth behind the murder of Professor Patrick Shelby.

Titled with the best pun Audain has yet to make with her name, Sosiology leads readers through audain’s brain in a series of lengthy poems with philosophical undertones. In it, she ruminates on love, life, and death as an adolescent, serving as a memento of sixteen.