National Scholastic Medal recipients are announced

Congratulations to the H2H Region’s 2016 national medal recipients!

• Hannah Ahn, 8th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Lost and Found (Personal Essay/Memoir)
• Grant Albright, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Purges and Prayers (Poetry)
• Daniel Bring, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Resurrection of Sennacherib (Short Story)
• Caroline Challe, 10th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Food for Soul (Poetry)
• Amanda Cronin, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Finding the Current (Short Story)
• Jo de Waal, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Oma Chronicles: Tenthousandthings, Paper Scissors, Measure of Time (Poetry)
• Sydney DiStefano, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Part of the blueness (Poetry)
• Katherine Du, 11th grade, awarded Gold Medal for The Mothers (Personal Essay/Memoir)
• Violet Fearon, 11th grade, awarded American Voices Medal for Jesus Christ College Applicant (Humor)
• Violet Fearon, 11th grade, awarded Gold Key | Gold Medal for Pluto (Novel Writing)
• Blythe Filaski, 10th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Waking Past of Elle Perduamour (Short Story)
• Matthew Fisch, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Our Inhumane Justice System (Critical Essay)
• Maeve Flaherty, 12th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Mezcal (Poetry)
• Ashley Gong, 12th grade, awarded Gold Medal for The Fifth Series of Red (Poetry)
• Samuel Hodman, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for A Defrosting (Journalism)
• Becky Hoving, 11th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Conversation About Gender Neutral Bathrooms Surges Through Staples (Journalism)
• Colette Juran, 11th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Return to Mars (Critical Essay)
• Maryam Kajoshi, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for unnoticed, electricity, limerence, logicalemotionalimpulsive, unreturned (Poetry)
• Warren Kennedy-Nolle, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Tobacco Untouchables (Poetry)
• Alexander Kosyakov, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Gone Fishing (Short Story)
• Daniel Kuriakose, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for McDonalds: The Series” (Poetry)
• Maya Lew, 12th grade, awarded Silver Medal with Distinction for The Complete Collection of Maya Lew (Director's Cut, Box Set) (Writing Portfolio)
• Justin Lu, 8th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Midnight Canoe Ride (Personal Essay/Memoir)
• Kaley Mamo, 10th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Ponte Vecchio (Flash Fiction)
• Megan Meyerson, 8th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The River (Science Fiction/Fantasy)
• Sophie Nadel, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Trich (Flash Fiction)
• Katie O'Shea, 7th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Last Soldier and Out of Reach (Poetry)
• Evan Ortiz, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Piano Man (Personal Essay/Memoir)
• Ellie Prusko, 11th grade, awarded Gold Key for Wonderfully Tragic and Terribly Great (Novel Writing)
• Maddie Smyth, 7th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Raindrops (Poetry)
• Gabrielle Sussman, 8th grade, awarded Gold Key for Not Gold, Just Amber (Novel Writing)
• Athena Traver, 8th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Broken Glass (Poetry)
• A.J. Vitiello, 10th grade, awarded Gold Key | Silver Medal for Field Mouse (Novel Writing)
• Christina Wang, 10th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Lifeblood (Short Story)
• Callie Zola, 10th grade, awarded Gold Medal for A Wrinkle in Dystopia (Critical Essay)

Congratulations 2016 Hudson-to-Housatonic Scholastic Writing Awards recipients!

View the full list of works recognized in the 2016 Hudson-to-Housatonic Writing Region of the Scholastic Writing Awards below!

A panel of professional novelists, editors, teachers, poets, librarians, journalists, and other literary professionals selected these works from the 1,880 works submitted this year.

The Madeleine L'Engle Senior Writing Portfolio
$1,000 Scholarship

Ashley Gong
Newtown High School
Sandy Hook, CT

Ashley's Senior Writing Portfolio was selected by jurors as the most outstanding in the region. Congratulations!

Special Prizes...

• Emmy Laybourne's Essay Award for $300 is awarded to Michael Waters of Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford CT, for For Sale (Personal Essay / Memoir)
• The Marnie Hillsley Poetry Award for $300 is awarded to Raymond Hagan of ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven CT, for Gentleman's Proposal; Play Date; The patients laugh. (Poetry)
• The Rachel Vail Fiction Scholarship for $300 is awarded to Maeve Flaherty of Hopkins School in New Haven CT, for Lisa (Short Story)
• The Cuppa Pulp Writers Space Scholarship for $200 is awarded to Kate Fishman of New Paltz Senior High School in New Paltz NY, for To Submerge (Short Story)

2016 Hudson-to-Housatonic Scholastic Awards