By Léna Roy, Director of Teen Programs On March 30th, 2025, 250 teen writers—and their families—came to Reid Castle at Manhattanville College to be celebrated for winning Scholastic Writing Awards in the Hudson to Housatonic region in New York. Out of over 2,500 pieces submitted to the H2H region, 169 received gold keys, 266 received …
Month: April 2025
Guest Contributor, Naomi Jeske, 17 Happy National Poetry Month! I know we do not all consider ourselves poets. We are, of course, all writers. But each of us has a unique relationship to words whether we write fantasy or memoir or realistic fiction. Poetry. We document the past or we predict the future. We are …
By Elsa Bermudez, Associate Director of Specialty Programs On Friday, March 28th, 2025, Malcolm and I led the Open Mic for Scholastic Award winners at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC! The event was beautiful: 40 teen writers shared innovative, heartwarming, powerful, and often funny excerpts from their 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing gold …