2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
O’Neal freshmen Chloe Shen, Tea Waldt, Zoey King and Naomi Johnson all earned honorable mention awards for their short stories submitted to the 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The contest is a national competition for students in grades 7-12 in the U.S. and its territories as well as American schools abroad – resulting in thousands of submittals. O’Neal’s students entered in the Southeast Writing Region-at-Large. Three levels of awards are presented including Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention Awards.
Submittals of creative and original work may be entered into any of the 29 art and writing categories, including architecture, painting, flash fiction, poetry, printmaking, and video game design.
All works are evaluated through blind adjudication first on a regional level by more than 100 local affiliates of the Alliance and then nationally by an impressive panel of creative industry experts. This past year’s group of distinguished jurors included cartoonist Leela Corman; writers John Corey Whaley, Edwidge Danticat, and Baratunde Thurston; artist Dread Scott; and curator and art critic Hrag Vartanian.
At each level of judging, all works are reviewed based on the same criteria that have represented the program since its founding in 1923: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.
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