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MACARONI TEENS: SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS

For Students in Grades 7-12 in Either Art or Writing

By Scholastic September 28, 2014
The annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the nation’s longest running, most prestigious scholarship and recognition initiative for students in grades 7–12, is now open for submissions and invites all aspiring teen artists and writers to share their work.

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Over the past five years alone, the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the nonprofit presenter of the Awards, has received more than one million original works from public, private and homeschooled students. The program provides top-winning artistic and literary teens with exhibition and publication opportunities, as well as access to millions of dollars in scholarships, while continuing its legacy of identifying the early promise of some of our nation’s most exceptional visionaries.

Students in the U.S. and Canada, and those attending American schools abroad, are invited to submit creative works in the Awards’ 28 categories, ranging from comic art to photography, flash fiction to poetry, video game design to novel-writing and more.

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All works are evaluated through a blind judging process based on originality, technical skill and the emergence of a personal vision or voice—the same three criteria since the program’s founding in 1923. Submissions are first judged on a regional level by the more than 100 affiliates of the Alliance, which bring the program to local communities across the country.

Deadlines for submissions vary by region {SEE OUR AREA'S DEADLINE HERE}with National Scholastic Art & Writing Award winners announced in March 2015.

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The Scholarship Partner Network includes more than 60 colleges and universities who set aside scholarships for Scholastic Art & Writing Award–winning high school seniors. With more than $10 million available, the program is the largest source of scholarships for creative teens.

Each year, 16 high school seniors are awarded the Portfolio Gold Medal, which is accompanied by a $10,000 scholarship—the highest possible honor a student can receive through the program.

Cash awards are also available to students of all grades, as well as teachers.

Student writers may be published in The Best Teen Writing series of anthologies, which are available for purchase at amzn.com/0545818966.

In addition 5 students in grades 9–11 are selected annually to serve as literary ambassadors as part of the National Student Poets Program, the nation’s highest honor for youth poets presenting original work. Winning a Scholastic Art & Writing Award National Medal in poetry is the exclusive pathway to this honor, which is presented in partnership by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Alliance.

To learn more about the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, visit www.artandwriting.org or the awards FACEBOOK PAGE