Skip to main content

National Scholastic Medal recipients are announced

Congratulations to the H2H Region’s 2016 national medal recipients!

  • Hannah Ahn, 8th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Lost and Found (Personal Essay/Memoir)
  • Grant Albright, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Purges and Prayers (Poetry)
  • Daniel Bring, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Resurrection of Sennacherib (Short Story)
  • Caroline Challe, 10th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Food for Soul (Poetry)
  • Amanda Cronin, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Finding the Current (Short Story)
  • Jo de Waal, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Oma Chronicles: Tenthousandthings, Paper Scissors, Measure of Time (Poetry)
  • Sydney DiStefano, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Part of the blueness (Poetry)
  • Katherine Du, 11th grade, awarded Gold Medal for The Mothers (Personal Essay/Memoir)
  • Violet Fearon, 11th grade, awarded American Voices Medal for Jesus Christ College Applicant (Humor)
  • Violet Fearon, 11th grade, awarded Gold Key | Gold Medal for Pluto (Novel Writing)
  • Blythe Filaski, 10th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Waking Past of Elle Perduamour (Short Story)
  • Matthew Fisch, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Our Inhumane Justice System (Critical Essay)
  • Maeve Flaherty, 12th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Mezcal (Poetry)
  • Ashley Gong, 12th grade, awarded Gold Medal for The Fifth Series of Red (Poetry)
  • Samuel Hodman, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for A Defrosting (Journalism)
  • Becky Hoving, 11th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Conversation About Gender Neutral Bathrooms Surges Through Staples (Journalism)
  • Colette Juran, 11th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Return to Mars (Critical Essay)
  • Maryam Kajoshi, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for unnoticed, electricity, limerence, logicalemotionalimpulsive, unreturned (Poetry)
  • Warren Kennedy-Nolle, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Tobacco Untouchables (Poetry)
  • Alexander Kosyakov, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Gone Fishing (Short Story)
  • Daniel Kuriakose, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for McDonalds: The Series” (Poetry)
  • Maya Lew, 12th grade, awarded Silver Medal with Distinction for The Complete Collection of Maya Lew (Director's Cut, Box Set) (Writing Portfolio)
  • Justin Lu, 8th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Midnight Canoe Ride (Personal Essay/Memoir)
  • Kaley Mamo, 10th grade, awarded Gold Medal for Ponte Vecchio (Flash Fiction)
  • Megan Meyerson, 8th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The River (Science Fiction/Fantasy)
  • Sophie Nadel, 9th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Trich (Flash Fiction)
  • Katie O'Shea, 7th grade, awarded Silver Medal for The Last Soldier and Out of Reach (Poetry)
  • Evan Ortiz, 11th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Piano Man (Personal Essay/Memoir)
  • Ellie Prusko, 11th grade, awarded Gold Key for Wonderfully Tragic and Terribly Great (Novel Writing)
  • Maddie Smyth, 7th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Raindrops (Poetry)
  • Gabrielle Sussman, 8th grade, awarded Gold Key for Not Gold, Just Amber (Novel Writing)
  • Athena Traver, 8th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Broken Glass (Poetry)
  • A.J. Vitiello, 10th grade, awarded Gold Key | Silver Medal for Field Mouse (Novel Writing)
  • Christina Wang, 10th grade, awarded Silver Medal for Lifeblood (Short Story)
  • Callie Zola, 10th grade, awarded Gold Medal for A Wrinkle in Dystopia (Critical Essay)

Congratulations 2016 Hudson-to-Housatonic Scholastic Writing Awards recipients!

View the full list of works recognized in the 2016 Hudson-to-Housatonic 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 the 1,880 works submitted this year.

The Madeleine L'Engle Senior Writing Portfolio
$1,000 Scholarship

Ashley Gong
Newtown High School
Sandy Hook, CT

Ashley's Senior Writing Portfolio was selected by jurors as the most outstanding in the region. Congratulations!

Special Prizes...

  • Emmy Laybourne's Essay Award for $300 is awarded to Michael Waters of Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford CT, for For Sale (Personal Essay / Memoir)
  • The Marnie Hillsley Poetry Award for $300 is awarded to Raymond Hagan of ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven CT, for Gentleman's Proposal; Play Date; The patients laugh. (Poetry)
  • The Rachel Vail Fiction Scholarship for $300 is awarded to Maeve Flaherty of Hopkins School in New Haven CT, for Lisa (Short Story)
  • The Cuppa Pulp Writers Space Scholarship for $200 is awarded to Kate Fishman of New Paltz Senior High School in New Paltz NY, for To Submerge (Short Story)

2016 Hudson-to-Housatonic Scholastic Awards

Just For Fun

Have a birthday? Party with us! Have your very own Writopia Lab Birthday Party.

Check out our online store and take a piece of Writopia Lab home with you!

Enroll Now!

Weekly Trimester-Long Workshops

Check out the Weekly Trimester-Long Schedule.

Holiday & School Break Workshops

Check out the Half-Day and Full-Day schedules.

Summer Workshops and Camps

Check out the Summer Schedule.

Join the Team!

If you love writing and want to share that love with young writers, apply today to join Writopia Lab! Click here to learn more!