Ellis Students Win Scholastic Writing Awards
Twelve Ellis students won 16 Scholastic Writing Awards as part of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project (WPWP). Students submitted both personal and work created in class. This year, every Ellis student that submitted work received an award. Students either received an Honorable Mention, Silver Key, or Gold Key, and one student received a nomination for the American Voices Medal.
Work will be on view on Saturday, February 23 at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium at the University of Pittsburgh. The Writing Awards Ceremony will be held that day from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the same location.
EDIT: Ellis seniors Yumika Amemiya and Erica both won National Gold Medals for their works. Congratulations, girls!
EDIT: Ellis seniors Yumika Amemiya and Erica both won National Gold Medals for their works. Congratulations, girls!
Student | Award | Title of Piece | Category |
Yumika Amemiya ’19 | Gold Key | “The Fall of Romanticism” | Critical Essay |
Sydné Ballengee ’19 | Silver Key | “Carving the path” | Personal Essay |
Erica Davis ’19 | Silver Key | “Do You Have to be Rich to be Sustainable?” | Journalism |
Erica Davis ’19 | Gold Key and American Voices Nominee | “Hamlet’s Dichotomic Madness—An Exploration of Interior and Exterior Disunion” | Critical Essay |
Erica Davis ’19 | Honorable Mention | “Frankenstein and the Disjunction of Passion and Nature” | Critical Essay |
Emmy Hsiung ’19 | Honorable Mention | “Shelley’s Rejections of Rejection in Frankenstein” | Critical Essay |
Lauren Jasper ’19 | Honorable Mention | “Orero” | Personal Essay |
Lauren Jasper ’19 | Honorable Mention | “Frankenstein as a Criticism of Romantic Ideals and Promethean Figures” | Critical Essay |
Emma Schell ’19 | Silver Key | “Frankenstein as a Reflection of Romanic Ideology” | Critical Essay |
Grace Coffelt ’21 | Honorable Mention | “A Difference in Perspective” | Critical Essay |
Samantha Silk ’21 | Honorable Mention | “Souls Like a vas, In the Darkness of My Mind, Leaping Through the Night, My Life is Poetry, Neutron Star” | Poetry |
Lowrie Woodside ’21 | Silver Key | “Marriage: The Goal for Young, Childlike Women in 19th Century Literature” | Critical Essay |
Kris Kaminski ’22 | Honorable Mention | “Of Silence and Mind” | Poetry |
Sabrina Lateef ’23 | Honorable Mention | “A Difference in Perspective” | Critical Essay |
Lucy Larsen ’24 | Honorable Mention | “An Orphan’s Adventure” | Short Story |
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