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Congratulations 2025 DC Metro Scholastic Writing Awards recipients!

View the full list of works recognized in the 2025 DC Metro 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 2,619 works submitted this year.

  • 345 Honorable Mentions awarded to promising works
  • 222 Silver Keys awarded to distinguished works
  • 125 Gold Keys awarded to the most accomplished works
  • 5 American Voice Nominees selected as the strongest regional works

Gold Keys are automatically forwarded for consideration at the national level of the Scholastic Writing Awards.

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DC Awards Ceremony

To recognize their outstanding work, this year's Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention recipients are invited, along with their guests, teachers, and our esteemed jurors, to the 2025 Awards Ceremony for the DC Metro Writing Region of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards!

  • Date: Sunday, March 9th, 2025
  • Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET
  • Place: UDC Theater of the Arts, 4200 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
  • RSVP form link

American Voices Nominees

  • Nadia Lach-Hab of Arlington Public Schools for A Taste of Freedom (Personal Essay & Memoir)
  • Aigerim Bibol of Sidwell Friends for binary bodies (Poetry)
  • Aliyah Majeed-Hall of Potomac School, for Half Moon Rising (Personal Essay & Memoir)
  • Tara Prakash of Sidwell Friends, for How do you save a house on flames and everyone in it? (Poetry)
  • Michaela Frey of Langley High School, for MY HUSBAND AND I TRAVEL (Poetry)

2025 DC Metro Scholastic Awards