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James Blume

“The Illustrated Generation” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2019.

“My Illustrated Generation” (writing portfolio), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2019.

Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, 2018.

“The Illustrated Generation” (personal essay) & “Rockface” (fiction), NCTE Achievement Award for Superior Writing, 2018.

“Boulder” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2018.

“Sunken Kings and Other Afterthoughts” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2018.

“How to Kill Your Girlfriend’s Cat” & “The Socrates Machine” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mentions, 2018.

“Transubstantiation” (poetry), NJCTE Bronze Medal, 2017.

Folk Punk Goodbye” (personal essay), Teen Ink print magazine, April 2017.

“End of the Line” (play), finalist, NJ Young Playwrights Competition, 2017.

“Transubstantiation” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2017.

“The Bomb Under the Wall of Jericho” & “If I Only Had a Heart” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Keys, 2016.

“Selfie” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2016.

“Erasing the World” & “Halfway There” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mentions, 2016.

“An Ant Goes Marching On” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2015.

“Paleontology of Fossilized Dreams” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2015.

“Are Rabbit Feet Really Lucky?” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards National Gold Medal & Gold Key, 2014.

“Brown Bear, Brown Bear” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2014.

Samantha Burggraf

“Oblitus” (poetry), 2nd place, The Writing Conference, Inc. Contest; publication in The Writer’s Slate, spring 2017.

Sophie Gilbert

“Older” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2018.

“Otis” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2018.

Kianni Keys

The Greed Game” (play), 1st place, The Theater Project 17th Annual Young Playwrights Contest, 2019.

Play, 3rd place, The Theater Project 16th Annual Young Playwrights Contest, 2018.

How Distraction Fuels Creativity” (talk), TEDx, 2018.

Smile” (play), winner, Writers’ Theatre of New Jersey 34th Annual Young Playwrights Competition, 2017.

Governor’s Award in Arts Education, 2017.

Dramatists Guild of America, membership, 2017.

Alan Lin

“Ambidexterity” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2017.

“deus ex stratum” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2017.

“Ambidexterity” (personal essay), Apprentice Writer Magazine of Susquehanna University, Vol. 34, fall 2016.

Unnathy Nellutla

“Jersey City” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards American Voices Medal Nominee & Gold Key Award, 2019.

“The Road Monster” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2019.

“Jungle Habitat” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2019.

Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, 2019.

“The Sun, the Moon and the Stars” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2017.

“Wings” (science fiction/fantasy), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2016.

“Next Train” & “The Written Word” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mentions, 2016.

“Chernobyl” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2015.

“Medea” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2015. 

Micah Rivas

“All the Same Pieces” (play), finalist, NJ Young Playwrights Competition, 2017.

Justine Seo

“You’re Too Young to Understand!” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2018.

Jack Snyder

the promise of every cobbled alley” (fiction), Teen Ink Editor’s Choice Award, front page of the magazine, spring 2018.

Giulia Socolof

“Stars” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2017.

Magnolia Wang

“Sweet Meat” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2018.

“Flat Cola” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2018.

“Petals” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2017.

Spencer Wang

“My Mother had a Fear of Dung Beetles” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2018.

“You Are Not to Blame” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2018.

“Rice Paddy Memoir” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2017.

Elliiott Zorintsky

“A Twist in Translation” (poetry), 3rd place, The Writing Conference, Inc. Contest; Publication in The Writer’s Slate, spring 2017.