South Dakota Students Announced as 2024 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Regional Winners
Presented by the nonprofit organization Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country's longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7-12. Thirty-five 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.
In celebration of this year’s regional award winners a reception and ceremony will be held on Sunday, March 3, at 1 p.m. in Farber Hall at USD.
This contest encourages middle and high school students to submit writing in a range of categories, and the works are judged by faculty and graduate students in USD's English department. The honor ceremony and reception, which will welcome families and guests to see young writers receive their awards, will be hosted by Cheyenne Marco, Ph.D., senior lecturer of English, and the Department of English.
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, Amanda Gorman, 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 and inclusion in the National Exhibition and Scholastic Awards Traveling Exhibition, the annual anthology of award-winning teen writing, and the annual catalogue of award-winning teen art.
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 June 12, 2024.
The alliance is grateful for its generous sponsors, who provide funds to support and produce the Scholastic Awards at the national level: Scholastic Inc., New York Life Foundation, The Maurice R. Robinson Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Command Companies, The Herb Block Foundation, The Jay Pritzker Foundation, Quad and The Windhover Foundation, BLICK Art Materials, National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Times, Don't Hide It, Flaunt It, RBC Foundation USA, Morgan Stanley, AppleTV+, Lindenmeyr Book Publishing Papers, Garcia Family Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and numerous other individual, foundation, and corporate funders; and, for the National Student Poets Program, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Hearthland Foundation, Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets.
For more information about the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, visit the Scholastic News Room: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/artandwriting.
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