Eight students from Brother Martin have earned recognition by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for their work in creative writing. In addition to seven regional award recipients, a story written by senior Sam Lucio titled “The New Me” has earned a Gold Key Award, meaning it will represent Brother Martin at the national competition with medalists announced on March 14th. Congratulations to these regional winners, and good luck to Sam at the national competition.
Gold Key Awards:
Sam Lucio ’16 – “The New Me” (Personal Essay / Memoir)
Silver Key Awards:
Brian Barry ’16 – “I Quit” (Personal Essay/ Memoir)
Robert Laurent ’16 – “How Breaking My Phone Made Me Start Writing” (Personal Essay / Memoir)
Alex Lucas ’16 – “My Struggle for Humility and Self-Purpose” (Personal Essay / Memoir)
Jack Neelis III ’16 – “Jack-y Jack-y, Scared-y Cat-y” (Personal Essay / Memoir)
Grant Strohmeyer ’17 – “Singers and Dancers” (Short Story)
Honorable Mention Awards:
Nathan Fernandez ’17 – “Handyman” (Short Story)
Gage Kott ’16 – “Jane’s Dreams” (Short Story)
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Through the Awards, students receive opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarships. Students across America submitted nearly 320,000 original works during our 2016 program year across 29 different categories of art and writing.
Selections from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are published in the National Catalog and The Best Teen Writing, which are distributed free of charge to schools and libraries nationwide. Works have also appeared in Scholastic publications including The Best Young Writers & Artists in America (PUSH), Scope magazine, Junior Scholastic magazine, and New York Times Upfront magazine.
Alumni of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards include artists Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, Cy Twombly, Robert Indiana, Kay WalkingStick, and John Baldessari; writers Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Bernard Malamud, Myla Goldberg, and Joyce Carol Oates; photographer Richard Avedon; actors Frances Farmer, Robert Redford, Alan Arkin, Lena Dunham, and John Lithgow; fashion designer Zac Posen; and filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Ken Burns, and Richard Linklater. Outside the arts, Awards alumni employ their creativity to become successful in any number of ways—leaders in fields including journalism, medicine, finance, government and public service, the law, science, design, and more.
