Three MIHS Students Win Scholastic Art & Writing Awards from Alliance for Young Artists and Writers
Three MIHS Students Win Scholastic Art & Writing Awards from Alliance for Young Artists and Writers
MISD Communications
Mercer Island, WA, April 18, 2024 – Mercer Island High School students Madison Liu, Fern Frame, and Huashan Yang have won 2024 Scholastic Art & Writing awards from the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.
Liu has won a Gold Key award in the Personal Essay & Memoir category for her work titled Certain Things Spoken. Liu’s piece will automatically be advanced to national level judging with national medalists being announced on June 11.
Frame has won an Honorable Mention award in the Poetry category for his work titled Innocence.
Yang has won an Honorable Mention award in the Dramatic Script category for his work titled Love is a Thinker.
Read Liu’s Certain Things Spoken
Read Awards Letter from Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
Fern and Huashan are currently enrolled in the CCR Writing and Publishing class; Madison took the class as a sophomore. All of them are current Pegasus Creative Arts Magazine staff members through the Writing and Publishing class or the associated co-curricular Pegasus Magazine club.
The CCR Writing and Publishing Class is offered at Crest as a collaboration between Crest and the MIHS CCR program. The course offers college credit for Creative Writing through the "College in the High School" program at North Seattle Community College and is open to all MIHS students who want to develop and deepen their creative writing skills and learn skills in publishing, editing, and writing creative work. Students in the course learn creative writing skills as well as collaborate closely with students in the Pegasus club to jointly design and produce the Pegasus Creative Arts magazine.
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