Archmere Students Win Twenty-Six Scholastic Writing Awards

5/9/2024

In this year's Scholastic Writing Awards, ten Archmere students earned twenty-six awards across several different categories, including: Personal Essay and Memoir, Poetry, Short Story, Writing Portfolio, Flash Fiction, Humor, and the Critical Essay. Submitted work was reviewed and recognized by a panel of creative professionals, and awarded for its outstanding merit in originality, skill, and the emergence of your personal voice and vision.

Since 1923, the Awards have recognized some of Americas most celebrated artists and writers while they were teenagers, including Tschabalala Self, Stephen King, Kay WalkingStick, Amanda Gorman, Charles White, Joyce

Carol Oates, and Andy Warhol.

Gold Key works have been automatically advanced to the national level of judging in New York City. National Medalists will be announced on June 12, 2024.

Work Title	Awards (Category)	Participant Name
ascendancy	Honorable Mention (Poetry)	Brianna Yang
all i wanted to do was swim	Silver Key (Poetry)	Brianna Yang
The Veteran	Gold Key (Flash Fiction)	Brianna Yang
Three and a Little More Pieces of My Father and Me	Silver Key (Personal Essay & Memoir)	Brianna Yang
The Façade of Ballet	Honorable Mention (Critical Essay)	Grace Yang
Finding One’s Guide	Gold Key (Critical Essay)	Grace Yang
Microplastics	Silver Key (Poetry)	Sophia Chen
Last Night I Ate a Van Gogh	Honorable Mention (Poetry)	Sophia Chen
The Cradle	Silver Key (Poetry)	Sophia Chen
Root Beer	Silver Key (Flash Fiction)	Sophia Chen
upstream	Honorable Mention (Poetry)	Sophia Chen
dreamscape	Gold Key (Portfolio Category(Writing))	Sophia Chen
Your Cat Called Colby	Honorable Mention (Poetry)	Elisa Small
Operation: Dim Sum	Honorable Mention (Humor)	Valentina Ramos
Under the American Sun	Honorable Mention (Poetry)	Selena Yang
Defective	Honorable Mention (Science Fiction & Fantasy)	Selena Yang
Phantom’s Piano	Silver Key (Poetry)	Rebecca Wang
Dance of the Nebula-Fires	Silver Key (Poetry)	Rebecca Wang
self-love	Silver Key (Poetry)	Natalie Lucas
Dying to See the Ducks	Silver Key (Personal Essay & Memoir)	Chloe Li
Goldfish	Silver Key (Short Story)	Chloe Li
Belly Flop	Honorable Mention (Personal Essay & Memoir)	Logan Bustard
Yongsook's Journal	Silver Key (Flash Fiction)	Isabelle Kim
who is that	Silver Key (Poetry)	Isabelle Kim
SCOTUS Rules Against Affirmative Action	Honorable Mention (Undefined)	Elizabeth Maher
“She’s everything. He’s just Ken.”	Honorable Mention (Undefined)	Elizabeth Maher