Archmere Students Win Ten Scholastic Writing Awards

The Awards program was created in 1923 by Maurice R. "Robbie" Robinson, founder of Scholastic Corporation, and has been administered by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers since 1994. It has an impressive legacy and a noteworthy roster of past winners including Andy Warhol, Frances Farmer, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, and Joyce Carol Oates among many others. 

The work of Archmere's Gold Key winner, sophomore Nicholas Zhu, has been entered into the national competition, and all of the writers will be recognized in Dover next month at the Art Center Gallery at the Delaware State University. Full texts of Gold Key written works will be available in print in the Gallery. The full text of Silver Key written works and Gold Key works will also be available for browsing on Kindles. 

Awards and Categories:

Gold Key 
Nicholas Zhu '22 - Huck Finn's Quandary: Society vs. Self, Critical Essay  

Silver Key (4 Awards)
Ava Passehl '22 - Crime, Poetry    
Alexander Chen '23 - Paying to Pollute, Critical Essay
Simi Edeki '22 - Capital Punishment, Poetry 
Roisin Liew '23 - Change, Poetry  

Honorable Mention (5 Awards)
Alexis Rendel '21 - Stream of Consciousness, Poetry  
Natalie Gildea '23 - Endless Days, Orion, Poetry 
Kaitlin Lotkowski '22 - Questions of the Soul, Poetry 
Cassie Matalonis '23 - Reaching for What Stars, Poetry
Ryana Rajesh '22 - The Unseen Truth, Poetry  

To read the Gold Key winning essay by Nicholas Zhu '22, click here.