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Zoe Ades

“Night Thoughts (12:58AM)” & “Dirt” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2017.

Francesca Badalamenti

“Corn Maze” (one-act play), winner, New Jersey Playwrights Theatre 33rd annual Young Playwrights Contest, 2016.

“Abandoned Girl” (poetry), Black Fox Literary Magazine, Issue 13, winter 2016.

Young Se Choi

“Push Off” & “American Dream” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2018.

“It Costs an Arm and a Leg” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, Fla, 2018.

“My Spiral Notebook” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2018.

“Sunny” (fiction), winner, Susquehanna University’s 35th Annual High School Writing Contest, 2017.

Sunny” (fiction), The Apprentice Writer, Volume 35, p. 66, fall 2017.

Poetry collection, New Jersey Youth Poet Laureate’s Judge’s Choice, 2017.

“Idiom Story” (humor), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2017.

“Luke” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2017.

“Evening in New York” & “American Poem” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Keys, 2017.

“Boarding Time: 1:52” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2017.

“It Costs an Arm and a Leg” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2017.

“Executively Branched Out” (humor), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2017.

“Inside of Me,” topical winner, Live Poets Society of New Jersey, spring 2016.

“Evening in New York” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2016.

“Idiom Story” (humor), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2016.

“The Darkness Within Newark Academy” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2016.

“It Costs an Arm and a Leg” (humor), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2016.

“Shadows Within Shadows” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2016.

What the Stars Hold” (poetry), topical winner, Live Poets Society of New Jersey, fall 2015.

Darkness Within” (nonfiction), Teen Ink online, Editor’s Choice Award, spring 2015.

Remembering Concussion” (nonfiction), Teen Ink online, spring 2015.

“Remembering Concussion” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2015.

“The Darkness Within” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2015.

Maddie Christmann

The Shipwreck” (poetry), Cicada Magazine,November/ December 2015.

Sudden Death” (one-act play), Claremont Review, Vol. 50, fall 2016.

Cosimo Fabrizio

“As Baghdad Rewinds” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2015.

“Childhood” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2015.

Nick He

“A Prayer for Blue Eyes” (critical essay), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2017.

“The American Narrative” (critical essay), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2016.

Jennifer Huo

The Summit” (poetry), Teen Ink online, fall 2015.

Ben Kany

Justified Violence?” (nonfiction), winner, Mahatma Gandhi Peace and Harmony Award, 2016.

Samantha Kany

Sounds of Winter” (fiction), honorable mention, Rider University’s 37th Annual High School Writing Contest, spring 2017.

“Sounds of Winter” (fiction), 2nd place, Writers’ Slate annual writing contest sponsored by The Writing Conference, Inc.; Volume 31, spring 2016.

Katy Kim

NCTE Achievement Award for Superior Writing, 2017.

August VIII,” honorable mention, Rider University’s 37th Annual High School Writing Contest, spring 2017.

Father” (poetry), Cosmonaut’s Journal, 2017.

“Family Faultlines” & “Growing Pains” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Keys, 2017.

“Wisdom Teeth” (poetry), Fissure, forthcoming.

One Hundred Years” & “Luna” (poetry), The Light Ekphrastic, Issue 28, November 2016.

Lena, after Les Murray,” “I,” and “Curfew” (poetry), Reality Breach, fall 2016.

“Ohio/Naturetime” & “Trespass” (poetry), Cadavarine Magazine, fall 2016.

On Those Wednesdays” (poetry), Hobart Poetry Journal, 2017.

Prospect Bay / Maryland” (poetry), Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 4.

“Late Note” (poetry), Blueshift Journal, Issue 6.

Sunday Elegy, after Pablo Neruda” (poetry), Asian American Writers Workshop, December 13, 2016.

“Culling Season” & “To Disappointment” (poetry), Elan Magazine, fall 2016.

“Cut” (poetry), Hermeneutic Chaos Journal, fall 2016.

“Cut” (poetry), Daily Verse, Web Weekly Feature, September 26, 2016.

Iowa Young Writers Studio, summer 2016.

Kenyon Young Writers Workshop, summer 2016.

“On Somnolence” (poetry), The Writers Slate, Volume 32, Issue 1, fall 2016.

“Bitter Words” (poetry), Polyphony H.S., Fall 2016

Ode to Spring: Lost and Found” & “Ode to Summer: Popsicle Sticks and 1940s Propoganda” (poetry), Crashtest,  Vol. 6, Issue 2, fall 2016.

“To the Virginia Enlisted Man’s Frock Coat from the Civil War” (poetry), winner, Live Poets Society of New Jersey 18th annual National Contest, January 2016.

“Bitter Words” poetry, Canvas Literary Journal, summer 2016.

Ezra Lebovitz

“Cracking My Knuckles in Public, The Grass Enters, Champagne” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards National Gold Medal, 2018.

“For the Adolescent” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2018.

“Album for My Mother” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2018.

“Song for the Hook Up” (poetry), honorable mention, Rider University’s 37th Annual High School Writing Contest, spring 2017.

Poetry collection, New Jersey Youth Poet Laureate’s Judge’s Choice, 2017.

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

“Grief Song” & “Adolescence” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2017.

“Sunset in Blue/Pink” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2017.

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

“Tashlich” (fiction), 3rd place, Johns Hopkins Creative Minds Short Fiction Competition, 2016.

“Cityscape” (poetry), NJCTE Bronze Medal, 2016.

“Half Off” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2016.

“Locus” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2016.

“Ode,” “Spring Cleaning,” “Summer Bullseye,” “Plato” & “Chemistry” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Keys, 2016.

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

“Pronouns, Pictures and You” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2015.

Ben Leit

A Girl Named Toaster” (fiction), Teen Ink online, featured on front page, March 16, 2016.

Michael” (fiction), Teen Ink online, featured on the front page of the Action/Adventure section, November 11, 2015.

“About My Depression” (flash fiction), Teen Ink online, featured on front page, March 14, 2016.

Megan McCullough

Shattering Ice” (poetry), Teen Ink Editor’s Choice Award, November 2015; publication in Teen Ink print magazine, April 2016.

“Shattering Ice” (poetry), topical winner, Live Poets Society of New Jersey, January 2016.

Antonia Park

On Being a First Generation Korean American Woman” (nonfiction), Keke Magazine, August 2018.

Isabel Snee

“Mother Knows Best” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2015.

Dean Tan

“Blue Gray” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2018.

“Shabu” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, Poetry, 2017.

“Science,” “Variations on Life” & “Blue and Gray” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2017.

“Gettysburg 1863” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2016.

“The Gingerbread Man” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2016.

“Journey to Jazz” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2016.

“The Magic Pink Stone” (science fiction/fantasy), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2016.

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

Siddarth Tumu

“Dreams” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2017.

“The Red Herring” & “Sequences” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2017.

“State of the Union Address 2018” (humor), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2016.

Melody Xiao

“We Were Seven,” winner, Moving Words Competition, 2017.

Poetry collection, Winner of New Jersey Youth Poet Laureate Contest, 2017.

“Hope is a Home” (short story), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2017.

“Something to Talk About” & “Letters to my Mom” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Silver Key, 2017.

“Thought” (poetry), The Blue Marble Review,January 2017.

“Exit Signs” & “pickle” (poetry), The Apprentice Writer, Vol. 34, fall 2016.

“22” (poetry), Black Fox Literary Magazine, fall 2016.

Poetry reading, Dodge Poetry Festival at NJPAC, October 2016.

“everything that’s wrong with me” (poetry), NJCTE High School Writing Contest Bronze Medal, 2016.

“dear hecate” (poetry), Cicada Magazine, July/August 2016.

“Rewind” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2016.

Alena Zhang

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

“Perennial” (poetry), Black Fox Literary Magazine, Issue 13, winter 2016.

Pulse” (poetry), Teen Ink print magazine, April 2016; Teen Ink online, Editor’s Choice Award, fall 2015.

“Breathe” (poetry), winner, Live Poets Society of New Jersey 18th Annual National Contest, January 2016.

Abbey Zhu

“Ground Zero” (poetry), The Apprentice Writer, Vol. 34, fall 2016.

“Impediments” (poetry), Cicada, September/October 2016 issue.

It Can’t Be” (poetry), Teen Ink print magazine, September 2016.

“Yellow Fever” (personal essay/memoir), Scholastic Writing Awards Gold Key, 2016.

“Gone” & “Time’s Up” (poetry), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mentions, 2016.

“Bye Bye Birdie” (flash fiction), Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, 2015.