South Dakota Students Announced as 2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Regional Winners
The University of South Dakota’s Department of English has announced the regional award winners of the 2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Presented by the nonprofit organization, the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the 99th Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country's longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12.
This year, nearly 100,000 teens from across the United States and Canada submitted their best art and writing. Sixty-seven creative teens from South Dakota received regional honors, including Gold Keys, Silver Keys, Honorable Mentions, and American Voices nominations, from local Scholastic Awards Affiliate, USD's Department of English.
View a List of South Dakota Recipients
In celebration of this year’s regional award winners, on March 6, the USD Department of English will host a reception and ceremony. The reception will be held at 1 p.m. in Farber Hall in Old Main on USD's main campus. The ceremony, including a keynote address by author Pete Dexter and formal recognition of this year’s award recipients, will begin at 2 p.m. This is a by invitation only event and is not open to the public.
Since the program’s founding in 1923, the awards have fostered the creativity and talent of millions of students and include a distinguished list of alumni such as Tschabalala Self, Stephen King, Kay WalkingStick, Charles White, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andy Warhol, all of whom received recognition in the awards when they were teens.
For Gold Key works of art and writing in the Awards’ 28 categories—including architecture, painting, flash fiction, poetry, printmaking, science fiction & fantasy, and more—the opportunities for recognition will continue when the works are considered for national honors, including a wealth of additional opportunities, such as scholarships, inclusion in the Scholastic Awards Traveling Exhibition, and in anthologies Best Teen Art and Best Teen Writing. Poets who win national awards are considered for the National Student Poets Program, the nation’s highest honor for young poets presenting original work. National awards will be announced on March 23, 2022.
For more information about the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, visit the Scholastic News Room: mediaroom.scholastic.com/artandwriting.
