February 2nd 2017
This week, 19 Riverstone students were recognized for excellence in writing by the Idaho Scholastic Writing Awards – an affiliate of the national organization that works to honor and encourage the voices of young writers. Student submissions were blindly judged by panels of leading writers and artists in our community. Each student’s work will be submitted to the national awards, which entails massive scholarship opportunities and a possible invitation to the awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall. For more detailed information about the awards, please visit www.artandwriting.org.
The students who were honored at the Idaho level (names included below) will be recognized at a spring ceremony at Boise State University on Sunday, Mar 19 at 4:30 PM. All Gold Key and Silver Key recognitions will be submitted to the national awards, which entails massive scholarship opportunities and a possible invitation to the awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall. For more detailed information about the awards, please visit their website here.
Grade 12
- Nina E: Poetry – Gold Key
- Ethan T: Poetry – Gold Key
- Audrey T: Poetry – Honorable Mention
Grade 10
- Laurel C: Short Story – Honorable Mention
- Olivia D: Personal Essay/Memoir – Gold Key, Silver Key and Honorable Mention
- Aela D: Poetry – Honorable Mention; Flash Fiction – Silver Key and Honorable Mention
- Anwen R: Personal Essay/Memoir – Honorable Mention and Honorable Mention
- Maryana T: Personal Essay/Memoir – Honorable Mention
- Ian W:Personal Essay/Memoir – Honorable Mention
Grade 9
- Aiden G (Gr 9): Flash Fiction – Honorable Mention
- Maeve P (Gr 9): Personal Essay/Memoir – Gold Key and Honorable Mention
Grade 8
- Rachel C (Gr 8): Flash Fiction – Silver Key
- Louisa G (Gr 8): Poetry – Honorable Mention; Flash Fiction – Silver Key; Critical Essay – Honorable Mention
- Olivia G (Gr 8): Flash Fiction – Gold Key
- Emma G (Gr 8): Flash Fiction – Honorable Mention
- Alyson G (Gr 8): Flash Fiction – Silver Key; Poetry – Honorable Mention
- Ethan H (Gr 8): Flash Fiction – Gold Key
- Nathan M (Gr 8): Crictical Essay – Gold Key; Flash Fiction – Honorable Mention
- Faye S (Gr 8): Critical Essay – Honorable Mention
And thank you to our English teachers, Amanda Micheletty and Jeff Cole, for guiding our students with their entries for this year’s competition!
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