MLWGS Class of 2028 Orientation News

2018 Scholastic Writing Competition Awards

Maggie Bust

We are very excited to announce that 21 students were recently honored as 2017-2018 Scholastic Writing Award winners!  

Summary of Awards:

5 Gold Key awards   

6 Silver Key awards          

10 Honorable Mentions

Congratulations the following Maggie Walker students:

Perisa Ashar / Silver Key / Poetry / The Outcast

Perisa Ashar / Silver Key / Poetry / Depression: The Evil 

Alys Goodwin / Honorable Mention / Flash Fiction / Moment

Samantha Grossman / Honorable Mention / Poetry / I am not a machine. 

Samantha Grossman / Honorable Mention / Poetry / In Response to Prufrock’s Love Song 

Raghda Labban / Silver Key / Personal Essay & Memoir / Burning Trash and Nostalgia

Megan Lee / Honorable Mention / Humor / Field Notes: Surviving the Wilderness 

Megan Lee / Honorable Mention / Personal Essay & Memoir / Incense

 Megan Lee / Honorable Mention / Poetry / flesh wound 

Asher Llewellyn / Silver Key / Short Story / Protest

Maggie McKenna / Gold Key / Personal Essay & Memoir / I Don’t Remember 

Maggie McKenna / Gold Key / Short Story / Daisies 

Maggie McKenna / Silver Key / Science Fiction & Fantasy / The Maze 

Marina Peebles / Gold Key / Personal Essay & Memoir / On Perfection 

Marina Peebles / Honorable Mention / Personal Essay & Memoir / On Mourning 

Marina Peebles / Honorable Mention / Personal Essay & Memoir / On Ulcerative Colitis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

Yumna Rahman / Gold Key / Personal Essay & Memoir / On Judgment 

Yumna Rahman / Silver Key / Personal Essay & Memoir / On Modesty

Jack Smith / Honorable Mention / Short Story / I Wish Upon the Universe on a Stormy April Day 

Brittani Telfair / Gold Key / Poetry / Naïveté 

Brittani Telfair / Honorable Mention / Poetry / Inspiration

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