About

Sydney Brainard from the shoulders up and stylized in black and white

Sydney Brainard is a University of Chapel Hill Junior. She is majoring in Journalism with a minor in Creative Writing.

She seeks to author a fiction book, as well as produce many long-form journalistic pieces, hopefully for The New Yorker.

Most recently, she was awarded first place in the Mini-Max Short Fiction competition hosted by UNC’s Department of English and Comparative Literature.