Archmere Students Win Fourteen Scholastic Writing Awards

In this year's Scholastic Writing Awards, eight Archmere students earned fourteen awards in six different categories, including: Personal Essay and Memoir, Poetry, Short Story, Writing Portfolio, Humor, and the Critical Essay. Junior Sophia Chen earned the nomination for the highly prestigious American Voices Award.
Delaware students uploaded 370 writing submissions to the Delaware Writing Region this year. Works submitted were eligible for Honorable Mention, Silver Key, Gold Key and American Voices Nominee recognition by the Delaware Writing Region. Works awarded a Delaware Regional Gold Key are submitted to be considered for national honors.   

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 winners, Sophia Chen and Alex Chen, are among twenty-nine Gold Key Writing individual submissions and one Gold Key Writing portfolio that have been forwarded to The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers for national level judging. Results will be announced this spring.

Awards:

Gold Key (3 Awards)
Alex Chen '23 - Cyclic Existentialism: The Creation and Destruction of Meaning in Joyce's "Araby", Critical Essay
Sophia Chen '24 - Road Signs, Poetry
Sophia Chen '24 - syzygy, Poetry, American Voices Nominee

Silver Key (6 Awards)
Sophia Chen '24 - Complaints for the ReaperHumorand erosion, Poetry; and I Was Always Too Busy To Be Lonely / Acrostic for the Red Wheelbarrow / Silver's Rusty, Poetry
Maggie Turner ’23 - The Problem with Kanye West, Critical Essay
Raphael Coronel ’23 - Lucid, Short Story
Alicia Chu ’24 - The Yellow Line, Personal Essay & Memoir

Honorable Mention (5 Awards)
Alex Chen ’23 - The Confucian Illusion: Why China Revived "The Great Sage", Critical Essay
Sophia Chen ’24 - the apocalypse can wait, I'm shaving my legs, Poetry
Mia Gattuso ‘23 - Sensorimotor, Writing Portfolio
Chloe Li ’26 - The Fairy in the Shade of My Tree, Personal Essay & Memoir
Alexander Bogey ’24 - Oswald Huxley, Humor

Read Sophia's poetry piece, syzygy, American Voices Nominee
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.