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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Tess Abraham-Macht Honorable Mention Poetry A Stranger&'s Own Scent Hannah Abrams Honorable Mention Short Story The Real World Indya Adam Silver Key Critical Essay Making Change in the World One Inspiration at a Time Soledad Aguilar-Colon Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir College Personal Statement Samuel Ahn Honorable Mention Poetry Greek Love Samuel Ahn Honorable Mention Critical Essay Society of Steel: Metal in Nathaniel Hawthorne&'s The Scarlet Letter Ksenia Aleksandrov Honorable Mention Novel Writing The Ones We Never Notice Ferduz Alkindi Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Not an Ordinary Pool Day Betsy Allen Honorable Mention Poetry Young Girl Betsy Allen Gold Key Short Story The Monster Within Me Brianne Allen Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Things That Cannot Protect You Katherine Allen Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Bold Woman who is Beloved by the Community Gabriella Kaelan Adriana Alleyne Gold Key Poetry The Natural Curve Gabriella Kaelan Adriana Alleyne Honorable Mention Poetry Die or Survive, Faith Alicia Alonso Gold Key Short Story Plunging from Scarlet’s Sin to Snow’s Purity: A Creative Memoir Alicia Alonso Honorable Mention Journalism Capitalism’s Victim: Body Image From a Havana Stadium to Paper Flowers in NYC: Transcending 1,300 Miles of Alicia Alonso Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Separation Ela Alster Gold Key Poetry Depressions Demons Elizabeth Alton Honorable Mention Poetry Sensory Colors Estelle Anderson Silver Key Poetry Revelation Over Italian Food Estelle Anderson Honorable Mention Poetry stream of Consciousness Estelle Anderson Gold Key Flash Fiction Girl Broken Estelle Anderson Gold Key Critical Essay The Cruciality of Attentiveness to News Media Estelle Anderson Honorable Mention Dramatic Script Disconnected Eleonor Andersson Honorable Mention Short Story Behind Martins Wall Alma Angantyr Silver Key Flash Fiction you have (9) new voicemails lukas anker Honorable Mention Flash Fiction What Was Once Hope Claire Annino Honorable Mention Short Story The Night Before Julian Ansorge Honorable Mention Critical Essay Milton's Fallen Followers 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 2 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Julian Ansorge Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Companionship of a Distant Light: Pip’s Search for a Reader Shan Ara Silver Key Short Story 7 Shan Ara Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Shine Julia Arancio Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Paul is a Punk Rocker Julia Arancio Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir An Ode to Sicilian Women Janelys Araujo Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Big Sister Anthony Armenakas Honorable Mention Short Story The World Expands Here Anthony Armenakas Honorable Mention Short Story The Other Side Paley Arnone Honorable Mention Short Story Anticipation and Defeat Paley Arnone Honorable Mention Critical Essay Solipsistic Sinner Paley Arnone Honorable Mention Critical Essay People of Color Shayan Ashraf Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir How to Live: The Essential Rulebook on Being the Person You Should Be Adithi Attada Silver Key Critical Essay Rage and Racial Identity in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” You get a Hug! 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Role Models in The Anaïs Austin Honorable Mention Critical Essay House on Mango Street Anaïs Austin Silver Key Poetry Difference Anaïs Austin Silver Key Poetry Out There Yumadi Aye Silver Key Poetry Benevolence of Change Sara Azcona-Miller Gold Key Writing Portfolio The Rest is Drag: Writing to Reveal and Conceal Sara Azcona-Miller Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Drag The Chokecherry Contradiction: The Limitation and Liberation of the Black Sara Azcona-Miller Gold Key Critical Essay Female Body Sara Azcona-Miller Silver Key Journalism Redefining Patriotism: A Look into The Take a Knee Protests Priscilla Babalola Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Samantha's Fate Priscilla Babalola Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Samantha's Fate Elaine Baez Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Sixth Examination Aleya Baeza Milan Honorable Mention Short Story A Mother Knows Best Allison Bajada Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Symphony No. 42 Shreya Balaji Honorable Mention Poetry "The Power of One's Voice" Quentin Balboni Gold Key Short Story Student Merelin Baldonado Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Dear America Fatoumata Bamba Honorable Mention Poetry The Pissed Black Girl 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 3 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Anish Bardhan Gold Key Poetry Water Turned Wine, The Curse, Candle Alexander Barnett Honorable Mention Poetry The Fall Before Flight Death Before A Slave: A Collection of Poetry based on Narrative of the Life of Eliza Baron-Singer Gold Key Poetry Frederick Douglass Sabrina Barton Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Identity in a Void Yilan Batista Silver Key Poetry Home Julie Bazile Gold Key Poetry Snow White Cries in the Nighttime too Julie Bazile Honorable Mention Poetry Creation Doused in Posions Ida Beckett Gold Key Critical Essay Black People With Guns Ida Beckett Silver Key Critical Essay Cold War, Hot Words Ida Beckett Honorable Mention Critical Essay Different Depictions of a Deplorable Institution Ida Beckett Honorable Mention Poetry Statue Gabriella Begleiter Honorable Mention Poetry Poetry Gabriella Begleiter Honorable Mention Poetry Poetry Nina Belcove Silver Key Short Story 1 in 6 Nagieliss Belliard Honorable Mention Poetry No Reply Eliza Bender Honorable Mention Dramatic Script The Second Coming Eliza Bender Honorable Mention Poetry in regards to my space in the universe Noga Benish Silver Key Flash Fiction The Snowball Ashanti Benons Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Consequences of Society’s Current Disposal of Plastic Waste Milly Berman Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Fight Night (Sorry Mom) Rebecca Biagas Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Importance of LGBT Sex Education Simone Billera Silver Key Short Story Sudden Silence Daniel Biro Silver Key Journalism The Dilemma Facing LGBTQ+ Americans Daniel Biro Honorable Mention Journalism An Inside Look into New York Fashion Week Sierra Blanco Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Hero's Frozen Heartbeat Sierra Blanco Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Gods Have Hell as Well Sierra Blanco Honorable Mention Poetry Stuck With You/Stuck With Me Sierra Blanco Honorable Mention Dramatic Script An Early Education Sierra Blanco Silver Key Poetry Beliefs Sierra Blanco Honorable Mention Short Story A Girl Named Light Margaret Blaney Silver Key Short Story Two Days of Hope 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 4 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Gillan Blanket Honorable Mention Critical Essay "Spider Man" Video Game Review Gillan Blanket Honorable Mention Flash Fiction A Pleasant Talk at the Dinner Table Gaia Blessing Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir A Glossary for Children of Divorce Gaia Blessing Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Vivere a Colori Valerie Blinder Honorable Mention Poetry The Absurdity of Jazz Miles Blumemthal Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Beat Leo Boone Silver Key Short Story Gone Ryan Bose-Roy Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Grit Ryan Bose-Roy Silver Key Critical Essay How Industry and Immigration Worked Together in the 1920s Ana-Nefeli Brandhorst Kapernekas Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir A Gift from Milantheus Maeve Brennan Gold Key Short Story Daffodils Maeve Brennan Honorable Mention Short Story Kota Maeve Brennan Honorable Mention Short Story And All the Graves We Buried Thomas Breydo Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Bratik Zeynep Bromberg Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Sitting on a Stoop Victoria Brooks Honorable Mention Poetry Ldor Vador Victoria Brooks Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Rise and Fall of Magnitogorsk Victoria Brooks Honorable Mention Critical Essay Athlete Activism: A Parallel to Social Reform Bonnie Browne Honorable Mention Poetry A Desire Amelie Buc Silver Key Critical Essay The Long Undone Amelie Buc Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Animal Mind Amelie Buc Silver Key Critical Essay Unsex Me Amelie Buc Honorable Mention Critical Essay Realities Amelie Buc Silver Key Critical Essay The Other Place Zoe Buff Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Wait Anya Bulchandani Honorable Mention Critical Essay Human Hierarchy Bella Butler Silver Key Poetry Lonely or to be alone Asher Playing A Game Of Harmless War In Chapter 17: Exploring Third Person Alexandra Cacciarelli Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Limited Point Of View In Lois Lowry's The Giver Serena Camici Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Private Thoughts on the Beach Somewhere in Tuscany Elizabeth Campagna Honorable Mention Short Story Afternoon Tea Christina Cao Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Streaks of Gold 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 5 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Christina Cao Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Real Strength Eric Cao Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir My Own Era of Music Kai Caothien Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Breaking Down A Barrier Juliette Carbonnier Silver Key Poetry Dream Journal Helena Carhart Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Didi-Hollywood's Skater In My Mother’s Scrawled Black Handwriting on the Back Cover of a Well-worn Nora Carrier Silver Key Poetry Copy of the Joy of Cooking: Nora Carrier Honorable Mention Poetry R Train, January, July Charlize Casiño Honorable Mention Short Story The Hanged Man Fiona Casson Silver Key Poetry Snakeskin Manifesto Fiona Casson Honorable Mention Humor Letter to Minnewaska Club On Behalf of My Thunder-Thighed Granddaughter Daniela Castillo Silver Key Novel Writing Morality Gray Emily Cavanaugh Honorable Mention Flash Fiction An Unexpected Delay Emily Cavanaugh Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir August Rain Chiara Cecchini Silver Key Poetry Least of the Dreamscapes Grace Cen Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir White Noise Soumia Chakour Honorable Mention Humor Humor Soumia Chakour Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir I can't do it. Soumia Chakour Silver Key Poetry Spending the Time Isabel Chan Honorable Mention Poetry Illusions Lucas Chapman Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy . Jordan Che Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy A Meal to Die For Jake Cheffo Silver Key Short Story Expectations vs. Reality Alena Chen Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Lake Tenkiller Carol Chen Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Red Burns on White Snow Carol Chen Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Friendship Between the Different Emmett Chen Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Iris Jacky Chen Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Alone Jady Chen Honorable Mention Flash Fiction The Catch Jeff Chen Gold Key Flash Fiction Against the Winds of Time Kelly Chen Gold Key Poetry Memories Samantha Chen Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Just a Game 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 6 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Ting Ting Chen Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir A New Tomorrow Vella Chen Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Zongzi In the River Olivia Chiroiu Silver Key Poetry Summer Alex Cho Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Mothers in Time Catherine Choi Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Piece By Piece Jee Ho Chong Honorable Mention Short Story Bro Chloe Christopher Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Strength We Possess Jayli Milan Christopher Gold Key Humor God is a Girl Cherie Chung Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Ten Thousand Steps Elizabeth Chung Honorable Mention Writing Portfolio between Earth and Wonderland Elizabeth Chung Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy meet me under the willow Glenn Chung Silver Key Short Story Parking Scams Glenn Chung Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Pool Haemaru Chung Silver Key Writing Portfolio Reverie Haemaru Chung Honorable Mention Poetry Comforting Music Haemaru Chung Silver Key Poetry Yacht Haemaru Chung Silver Key Poetry Mimic Lauren Cichon Silver Key Poetry Vacancy Henry Clark Silver Key Critical Essay Separation of Powers - Henry Clark Amalya Cleland Silver Key Short Story Negative Space Jameson Cohen Silver Key Critical Essay Fleeing the Fear-Filled Future Jameson Cohen Honorable Mention Poetry The Sun Will Still Rise Madeline Colby Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Stories For The Suffering Tasio Cole Gold Key Critical Essay A Talk for Freedom 1779 John Colie Honorable Mention Short Story Aldenberg Meditation Lynn Collardin Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Perfection Bernard Condon Gold Key Dramatic Script Parenting.com Veronica Coniglio Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Avatar Lila Cooper Honorable Mention Poetry Sour Grape Sophie Cooper Silver Key Short Story Mr. Fox

Sophie Cooper Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir If A Body Catch A Body: Reaching for the Gold Ring in Washington Square Park 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 7 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. Requests for edits will not be accommodated. Student First Student Last Award Category Title Sophie Cooper Honorable Mention Short Story Intelligent Design Rebecca Coopersmith Honorable Mention Poetry Books Sofia Corgan Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Are We In This Together? Katerina Corr Honorable Mention Flash Fiction The Match To Win Katerina Corr Gold Key Dramatic Script Help. Sincerely, Your Characters. Katerina Corr Honorable Mention Novel Writing The Difference Between Us Ibrahim Cosar Honorable Mention Critical Essay Assyrian Empire Elena Critelli Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Reset Mary Caitlin Cronin Silver Key Critical Essay The Use of Primary Sources in Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Hana Cruz Gold Key Critical Essay A Letter to President Donald Trump Sarah Cryan Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Where is Jackson Sarah Cryan Silver Key Humor Drinks with the Girls William Crystal Honorable Mention Critical Essay Pride, Politics, and Pain in John Milton's Paradise Lost William Crystal Gold Key Critical Essay Homes and Hierarchies in Pride and Prejudice Josey Cuthrell-Tuttleman Honorable Mention Dramatic Script Initiation Josey Cuthrell-Tuttleman Silver Key Dramatic Script Stairs Lucia Cutler Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Dedicated to Daisy Clare D'Amato Gold Key Journalism The Technology Behind Rape Culture Kinu Dadaille Honorable Mention Poetry Life Cycles Azalea Danes Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Nuclear Mitosis Azalea Danes Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir On New York Mina Daniels Honorable Mention Poetry Razor Blade Mina Daniels Honorable Mention Poetry Mom Mina Daniels Honorable Mention Poetry The Owls Nikki Daniels Gold Key Writing Portfolio The Complexities of Life Nikki Daniels Gold Key Critical Essay Are You a Terrorist? Aruna Das Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Raccoons and Racism Debjani Das Gold Key Flash Fiction Escaping Twilight Debjani Das Honorable Mention Poetry Moonlight Sonata, No. 14 Eliana Davidson Silver Key Flash Fiction The Hidden Escape Route Abigail Davis Honorable Mention Dramatic Script A Spread Kills a Marriage Abigail Davis Silver Key Dramatic Script A Jewish Christmas 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 8 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. Requests for edits will not be accommodated. Student First Student Last Award Category Title Jonathan Davis Silver Key Poetry Baseball Season: A Sonnet Nina Davis Gold Key Poetry The Man Inside My Head Malcolm Davol Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Life In Stop-Motion Chetna Dawda Silver Key Journalism On Thin Ice Ariane de Gennaro Silver Key Poetry Paraklausithyron to Japan: A Parody of Love Poetry Gabriela de Mendonca Gomes Silver Key Writing Portfolio Critical Essays Gabriela de Mendonca Gomes Honorable Mention Short Story The Least Among Us Gabriela de Mendonca Gomes Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Effect to Which Roberto Bolano Uses Unreliable Narration in Amulet Cleo De Rocco Silver Key Humor The Simple Man, the Clever Woman, and the Fearsome Dragon Fia de Seve Honorable Mention Poetry That Is What We Think Mason De Vaul Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Just Dance Joya Debi Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Watermelon Seeds Magdalena Del Valle Silver Key Critical Essay The International Language of Feminism Magdalena Del Valle Honorable Mention Short Story Fear Fighting Freedom Michael Delaney Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Journey to Kilimanjaro Mary DeMasco Honorable Mention Science Fiction/Fantasy The A-Group Mary DeMasco Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Clover Samantha Desch Honorable Mention Poetry American Schooling Chinmay Deshpande Silver Key Critical Essay Sense and Sensibility in Pride and Prejudice Chinmay Deshpande Silver Key Critical Essay A Dangerous Influence: The Pagan Theodicy of Paradise Lost Chinmay Deshpande Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Tragedy of Gertrude, Queen of Denmark The Merits of Unreason: The Historiography of Madness and Civilization by Chinmay Deshpande Honorable Mention Critical Essay Michel Foucault Allison Deutsch Honorable Mention Poetry Dungeons & Dragons Allison Deutsch Honorable Mention Poetry Overgrown Lena DiBiasio Silver Key Short Story Containment Lena DiBiasio Gold Key Flash Fiction Syd and the Turtle Lena DiBiasio Honorable Mention Poetry Dandelion Lena DiBiasio Honorable Mention Flash Fiction The Orphanage Lena DiBiasio Gold Key Poetry Origin Violet DiBiasio Honorable Mention Short Story The Orange Violet DiBiasio Honorable Mention Poetry Day in the Life of a Student 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 9 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Spencer Dill Honorable Mention Dramatic Script The Dark night Krista DiMaggio Silver Key Poetry I Was Here Tamara Dimov Silver Key Poetry Pionerska 16 Tamara Dimov Honorable Mention Poetry Crveno Tamara Dimov Honorable Mention Poetry Baba Starata Amogh Dimri Silver Key Humor Neighborhood Conspiracy Theorist Amogh Dimri Silver Key Critical Essay The Long Walk to Peace: the Story of Ogoniland Amelia Dinallo Honorable Mention Critical Essay Shays Rebellion and the Creation of Our Central Government and Constitution Michael Ding Honorable Mention Journalism AI is Revolutionizing Gaming Michael Ding Silver Key Journalism Technology in Basketball Michael Ding Honorable Mention Journalism Project Debater: Connecting the Minds of Human and Artificial Intelligence McKenna Dixon Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Green Bead Kimberly Dominguez Gold Key Journalism A Portrait of a Coyote Stefanie Donayre Honorable Mention Journalism Advocating Girls for STEM Stefanie Donayre Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir A Combination for Confidence Stefanie Donayre Honorable Mention Poetry The Spark Ava Donnellan Silver Key Short Story Specters Jack Donnellan Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Left Foot, Right Foot Benjamin Doolan Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Winning Isn't Everything Benjamin Doolan Honorable Mention Journalism Trials and Tribulations of the Catalonian Referendum Kathryn Dorfman Honorable Mention Poetry Giants and Queens Kathryn Dorfman Honorable Mention Poetry Society's Waiting Room Maya Doron-Repa Honorable Mention Short Story Phase Two Maya Doron-Repa Silver Key Flash Fiction Batter Up Maya Doron-Repa Honorable Mention Short Story C + K Milla Douer Honorable Mention Poetry Tick-Tock 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 10 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. Requests for edits will not be accommodated. Student First Student Last Award Category Title Margot Draillard-Vandenberg Honorable Mention Poetry #b74113/SS Ilana Drake Honorable Mention Poetry This Is Fifteen JoliAmour DuBose-Morris Honorable Mention Poetry i don't own a villa. Aleina Dume Honorable Mention Poetry Between the Lines Claire Dunn Honorable Mention Humor How Not to Seem Racist Peri Dunn Honorable Mention Poetry I Am a Whore! Gordon Ebanks Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Highlights and Blind Spots Alexander Economakis Honorable Mention Flash Fiction What Should I Do? Hannah Ehrlich Honorable Mention Short Story Stuck on the Ground Matei Eliezer Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Hours After Austin Lucinda Empson-Speiden Gold Key Poetry new york at night Lucinda Empson-Speiden Honorable Mention Poetry what i love about christmas Lauren Eng Silver Key Poetry Wrinkled Mangoes Lauren Eng Honorable Mention Poetry We All Fall Down Lauren Eng Honorable Mention Dramatic Script 12:47 A.M. Lauren Eng Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Letter of Recommendation: Delilah Miriam Entin-Bell Gold Key Poetry Affirmations Aleda Esseks Honorable Mention Science Fiction/Fantasy The Wall Sólveig Estes Silver Key Poetry Psoriasis Sprouts Yadyvic Estrella Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Madame Claire Lied Julia Falcinelli Honorable Mention Poetry Sorry About the Summer Julia Falcinelli Gold Key Poetry American Thread Company Julia Falcinelli Gold Key Poetry From the Rooftop Julia Falcinelli Honorable Mention Poetry Boating Julia Falcinelli Gold Key Dramatic Script Cash & Mary Julia Falcinelli Silver Key Dramatic Script Dogs Catherine Fan Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir The Love on My Neck Fariya Farah Honorable Mention Journalism The Nuances of Being a Muslim Rania Farah Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir ???? ???????? (My Stolen Grandmother) Jacqueline Farnsworth Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Free Throw Line Julia Feinberg Gold Key Poetry Chiaroscuro from an Oven Lamp Julia Feinberg Honorable Mention Poetry how to resuscitate a conversation 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 11 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. Requests for edits will not be accommodated. Student First Student Last Award Category Title Hayley Feinstein Honorable Mention Poetry Beyond the Surface Hayley Feinstein Gold Key Poetry Through My Eyes Hayley Feinstein Honorable Mention Writing Portfolio My World Jameira Felder Honorable Mention Critical Essay Kino’s Change: Divergence In John Steinbeck’s The Pearl Oz Feldman Silver Key Humor A Matter of Devotion Oz Feldman Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Wall Elaine Feliciano Honorable Mention Poetry Take Me Instead Yuki Feng Honorable Mention Poetry Please Love Me Cassandra Fenwick Gold Key Short Story A Most Beautiful Way To Die Cassandra Fenwick Honorable Mention Flash Fiction I Wish I Wasn&'t Alone Jordan Ferdman Silver Key Short Story Refresh June Fergus Honorable Mention Critical Essay Viola and Olivia: Is it Possible to Fight the Patriarchy? Ysabelle Kishori Fernandez Silver Key Poetry if only karma worked faster Clara Ferrier Silver Key Critical Essay Ha's Journey to the Land of Hope charlie feuerman Silver Key Critical Essay The Licentious, Lascivious, Lewd and The Libertine in Medea Hadas Feygin Gold Key Short Story Light at The End of The Tunnel Maija Fiedelholtz Silver Key Critical Essay First Thing’s First: Toni Morrison is the Realist Isabela Filstrup Silver Key Poetry The Island of Dreams Isabela Filstrup Silver Key Poetry Once Upon A Time Talia Finckel Silver Key Humor The Hard Core Life of Donald Trump Ari Firester Silver Key Critical Essay Through the Melting Pot: From Klezmer to Popular Music and Beyond Abigail Fisher Silver Key Short Story How to Label Yourself Abigail Fisher Honorable Mention Short Story Fish Breath Abigail Fisher Honorable Mention Writing Portfolio Opinion Pieces Tess Fleming Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Dead Sparrow Tess Fleming Gold Key Humor The Franklin's Other Tale Sophia Flynn Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Family Recipe Tommy Flynn Gold Key Poetry 7 Ways Of Looking At A Die (inspired By Wallace Stevens) Shea Formanes Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Soot Tess Fortenberry Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Invincible Sofia Fraidenraich Honorable Mention Poetry Magical Poems Sofia Fraidenraich Honorable Mention Critical Essay Redefining Magic 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 12 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Joelle Francois Gold Key Poetry All I Could Ever Ask For Sacha Lily Franjola Honorable Mention Poetry Castles in My Mind Sacha Lily Franjola Honorable Mention Short Story Old Red Cat Sacha Lily Franjola Silver Key Dramatic Script In Remembrance Jennifer Frank Honorable Mention Critical Essay The CIA’s External Control of Chile’s Internal Affairs Jennifer Frank Silver Key Critical Essay Jacob Vaark: Trading Morality for Success Jennifer Frank Silver Key Critical Essay A Manufactured Identity: The Creation of American Exceptionalism Rachel Friedland Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Glass Elephants Halle Friedman Gold Key Journalism The Trajectory of Women in Journalism At the Turn of the Century Ruby Friedman Silver Key Humor UNSTOPPABLE Ruby Friedman Honorable Mention Short Story Memories Ruby Friedman Gold Key Humor Pokemon Go Addict Sage Friedman Silver Key Short Story Baklava of the Crows Sage Friedman Gold Key Poetry These Days from a Mulatto Manon Fuchs Gold Key Poetry Danse Macabre Logan Furlonge Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Web of a Family Logan Furlonge Gold Key Novel Writing All the Broken People Lucas Galarza Honorable Mention Critical Essay Long Hair and Bare Legs Gabrielle Galchen Silver Key Poetry Forgotten Words Nora Gallagher Silver Key Critical Essay To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Ashley Galvez Gold Key Poetry Spiteful Child Victoria Gao Honorable Mention Science Fiction/Fantasy Bloody Red Hot Dog Meat Gabriella Garcia Silver Key Flash Fiction The Room Within The Darkest Shadows Kimberly Garcia Honorable Mention Short Story La Fe Senjuti Gayen Gold Key Poetry you, they, we Senjuti Gayen Gold Key Novel Writing House of Cards Marin Geller Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir On Gruyere Marin Geller Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir 'Lucy ditched us' Leo Gentile Silver Key Short Story The Lone Desert Hanna Gerber Honorable Mention Humor Following the Clues Hanna Gerber Gold Key Journalism Fishin’ for Fission Sophie Germain Honorable Mention Poetry More Than a Label 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 13 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Valentina Giammarco Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Woman Next Door Mary Giasi Silver Key Poetry get well soon., ethereal, rising, celestial Lake Gifford Honorable Mention Science Fiction/Fantasy The Beast Lake Gifford Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Alone Kazi Gilman Silver Key Short Story Blanket of War Kazi Gilman Honorable Mention Humor Hunting Trophy Hunters Kazi Gilman Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir House Memoir Kazi Gilman Gold Key Poetry I Am, The Book, We Live our Lives Abridged Mia Gindis Honorable Mention Journalism Addressing Anti-Semitism Mia Gindis Silver Key Journalism Democrats and Women: Making the Same Mistake Lola Ginsburg Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy You May Return It if You Still Have the Receipt Aran Glynn Honorable Mention Short Story Mother’s Guide to Raising a Child Aran Glynn Gold Key Short Story The Right Path Aran Glynn Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir A Mother’s Embrace Santino Gohu Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Struggle for Social Justice Anna Grace Goldstein Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Every Man's Island Mac Gooder Honorable Mention Short Story Mary and the Bench Rivke Goodman Honorable Mention Poetry The Singer and Her Husband Sabrina Gordon Silver Key Short Story An Observation Into the Past Roxie Gosfield Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Can you Canoe? Roxie Gosfield Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir ??!?(Homesick!?) Alice Goyer Silver Key Short Story The Black Cat Brian Granville-Smith Silver Key Short Story Devil in The House of the Lord? Angela Gray Silver Key Critical Essay The Us in Social Justice Tess Gray Honorable Mention Short Story Handprint on My Heart Tess Gray Gold Key Flash Fiction A New Perspective on Golding's Lord of the Flies Alexandra Greenberg Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Coarse Thoughts jojo greenberg Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Thank You Leo Greenberg Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Coming Out a Believer: My Rebellion Against Atheism Jack Greene Silver Key Critical Essay Phoenix: the Story of Chelsea Market Andrea Grene Silver Key Dramatic Script Bhavya's Afternoon Liliana Greyf Gold Key Poetry “some infinities are greater than others” 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 14 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. Requests for edits will not be accommodated. Student First Student Last Award Category Title Caroline Griem Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir I Am a Vehicle, an Interjection, and a Long, Skinny Mark Caroline Griem Honorable Mention Flash Fiction How Far Away Did the Butterflies Go? Caroline Griem Gold Key Poetry Polaroid A Feminist Retelling of The Odyssey (in poems, as inspired by Margaret Katherine Griem Honorable Mention Poetry Atwood’s The Penelopiad): Penelope Freed Katherine Griem Honorable Mention Critical Essay Homer’s Catch 22: The Paradox of Heroism in The Odyssey Katherine Griem Silver Key Journalism Diversity Open House Begins to Tackle Deep-Seated Issue at Hunter Georgia Groome Honorable Mention Poetry Child of the Americas Yingyi Guan Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Floating Forever? 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Nittai Huberman Silver Key Flash Fiction My Grandmother Foster Hudson Gold Key Poetry Stephen King Had a Cocaine Addiction Too Foster Hudson Honorable Mention Short Story A Couple Days of Snow Samantha Hughes Honorable Mention Poetry Heaven Samantha Hughes Silver Key Poetry Brownies Samantha Hughes Honorable Mention Poetry Femme Susannah Hurlbut-Noonan Gold Key Short Story The Crisis Giulia Hurlock Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir The True George Washington Gus Huston Honorable Mention Short Story The Absence Katherine Hwang Gold Key Critical Essay Revolution in America Annelie Hyatt Honorable Mention Poetry Disembodiment Annelie Hyatt Honorable Mention Poetry Childhood Understanding America in the Era of a Politically-Conscious “Woke” Student Annelie Hyatt Silver Key Critical Essay Body Annelie Hyatt Gold Key Short Story Under the Lake Annelie Hyatt Gold Key Dramatic Script Grapeshot Annelie Hyatt Gold Key Short Story Old Love Annelie Hyatt Honorable Mention Poetry Memories of Feeling Nathaniel Hylton Gold Key Poetry Profiled Nathaniel Hylton Gold Key Poetry Trapped Nathaniel Hylton Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Darker Shade of the Housing Crisis Nathaniel Hylton Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Until Further Notice Nathaniel Hylton Honorable Mention Writing Portfolio Broken Puzzle Caroline Iannuzzi Honorable Mention Poetry Better Days Caroline Iannuzzi Honorable Mention Short Story The Color of Comfort Ines Im Silver Key Poetry The Grandmother Experience Ines Im Silver Key Poetry Grandmothers Kitchen Sabiha Imran Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Fled Sabiha Imran Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy An Eternity Zofia Ingram Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Gezellig Zofia Ingram Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Gezellig Isabella Inouye Silver Key Short Story The Gardener 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 17 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Edmund Jurado Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Purgatory Sanjana Kaicker Silver Key Poetry Ashtami Sanjana Kaicker Silver Key Poetry Immigrants Sanjana Kaicker Silver Key Flash Fiction Silence Sanjana Kaicker Honorable Mention Poetry During a Humid Night in the Middle of June Anastasia Kaliabakos Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Time Ayelet Kaminer Gold Key Poetry Inadequate Ruminations Amala Karri Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Fitting In Etsub Kassie Honorable Mention Short Story True Magic Etsub Kassie Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir The truest form of nature Ana Kaufman Gold Key Poetry when god will not pick up the phone Ana Kaufman Silver Key Flash Fiction To My Mother Juna Kawai-Yue Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir The Body is a Temple Cooper Keane Honorable Mention Short Story An Ant's Day Carina Kehoe Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Unlike Anyone Else That I Have Met Audrey Kelly Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Girl Made of Stars Audrey Kelly Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Deep Meredith Kelly Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Fabulous Ms. Favaro Grace Keyt Honorable Mention Poetry Poems About Like and Love and Other Matters Grace Keyt Silver Key Poetry Love and Like and Things Like That Grace Keyt Gold Key Poetry Poems That Tell a Story Under Apartheid Asa Khalid Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Jenga! 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Danielle Mejia Silver Key Short Story Follow your Voice Simone Menard-Irvine Gold Key Poetry Sad Bad Mad Lucy Meola Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Untitled Lucy Meola Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Untitled Ahuva Mermelstein Honorable Mention Short Story Orphan Girl Amalia Mesa Gold Key Short Story Circle of Stones Jade Meyer Honorable Mention Short Story Wombmates Jade Meyer Silver Key Short Story Hook, Line, and Sink Her jaali michael Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Get Lifted Sabrina Michelena Silver Key Journalism Arrival Movie Review Isabel Mignone Honorable Mention Critical Essay Odysseus: The Hero Who Achieves Great Kleos and a Safe Homecoming Isabel Mignone Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Not-So-Great Gatsby Isabel Mignone Silver Key Critical Essay Gender Roles and World War I Isabel Mignone Gold Key Critical Essay The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on West Africa Jack milazzo Honorable Mention Flash Fiction The Resturant Jason Milch Honorable Mention Critical Essay A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials Dahlia Miller Honorable Mention Poetry Grandpa and Please Sea Jayne Miller Honorable Mention Poetry Holy Jayne Miller Gold Key Poetry Anti Anti Consummation Whitney Miller Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Growing Up as Myself Mitra Minovi Gold Key Short Story Moonlight in the Shadows Mitra Minovi Honorable Mention Poetry You Lena Mitchell Honorable Mention Short Story Box Julia Miyasaka Gold Key Short Story The Silver Gloves Kyra Mo Silver Key Poetry daughter of the siraya Alberto Molina Silver Key Critical Essay To Kill A Mockingbird Essay Mili Molina Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Cien a#241;os no es nada! 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Daisy Moriarty Silver Key Poetry Evenings With Dad Jeffrey Mui Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Calling Amina Mukhtar Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Irrevocable Decline of Traditional Media Anne Muschenheim Honorable Mention Poetry The Ocean Eden Myers Silver Key Short Story Earth Experiment 3.4 Mumtahina Nabila Honorable Mention Poetry THIS IS A LOVE POEM Saba Naini Ukmar Silver Key Short Story Short Story About PTSD Josie Nakatani Honorable Mention Critical Essay Plastic Maya Narang Honorable Mention Short Story An Abandoned Football Roza Nayda Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Flame Romy Negrin Honorable Mention Dramatic Script The Bard Herself Anna Neiman-Golden Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Baby Blue Isabel Nelson Honorable Mention Short Story Ugly Emma Netel Honorable Mention Writing Portfolio Pieces of Time Emma Netel Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Lyra Emma Netel Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Stolen Dreams Emma Netel Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Carousel of Time Emma Netel Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Stone Endings Emma Netel Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Syndicate Emma Netel Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Cage of Bone Emma Netel Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Magician Molly Nettles Honorable Mention Poetry Wounded Waters Molly Nettles Honorable Mention Poetry The Untouchables Charlotte Newman Honorable Mention Poetry I&'m digging your grave as we speak Charlotte Newman Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Tales From a Once Horah-ble Jew Dori Newman Silver Key Flash Fiction Stone and Tea Dori Newman Honorable Mention Poetry American Sonnet for My Past and Future Sweetheart Edona Nezaj Honorable Mention Flash Fiction The Journey Andrew Ng Silver Key Critical Essay What It Means to Be Beautiful Andrew Ng Gold Key Poetry A DISSECTION OF HOMOPHOBIC LINGUA Isabella Ng Silver Key Poetry I Found Poetry, Dear America, Jealousy Lachie Nichol Honorable Mention Humor YOU'RE WELCOM 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 28 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Jessina Noel Silver Key Poetry complex grief Jessina Noel Silver Key Poetry physicalities and localities Jessina Noel Honorable Mention Poetry love in the winter months Sophia Noh Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir The Life of a Cello Sebastien Nordenson Gold Key Critical Essay The Evolution of Guy Montag Sara Nordlicht Gold Key Poetry How to Appear Organized September As Elegy; On The Paradox of Being A Deity But Having No Grace Novarr Honorable Mention Poetry Believers; October Poem Grace Novarr Honorable Mention Poetry Road Trip; Heartbreak In The Making; A Foreign Concept Grace Novarr Silver Key Critical Essay Coming Out Of The Cocoon: Social Criticism in The Metamorphosis Grace Novarr Honorable Mention Poetry The Last Apology Letter; London&'s Teeth; Touch Grace Novarr Honorable Mention Poetry My Father's Hands; Cleaver; How Did I Get Here Grace Novarr Gold Key Poetry This Is How I See You; Cartographer; In A Symmetrical World Grace Novarr Honorable Mention Poetry Sonnets: Slivering, Sixteen, Self Grace Novarr Honorable Mention Poetry I Cried While I Was On The Phone With You; Childhood; Melancholy Owen Nuckolls Silver Key Short Story A Colossal Dream Brandon Nydick Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Passing Down the Piece Brandon Nydick Honorable Mention Critical Essay Unity through Destruction: How General Sherman Won the Civil War Josephine O'Brien Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Slime, Friendship, and Growing Up Rosie O'Byrne Gold Key Poetry Tree House Rosie O'Byrne Gold Key Poetry Experimenting Lily O'Donnell Silver Key Flash Fiction Instructions Lily O'Donnell Gold Key Flash Fiction One Star Lily O'Donnell Honorable Mention Flash Fiction The Amalgam Corinne O'Mara Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Use of Primary Source Material in Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson The Identity of the Insane and Inhumane: An Investigation of Humbert Humbert Hannah Oblak Silver Key Critical Essay in Lolita Kevin Oing Honorable Mention Critical Essay Social Justice Chaeyoon Ok Honorable Mention Poetry Ripples Alessandra Olivieri Silver Key Poetry Post September Mireille Elise Oppenheimer Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Queen of Death Cerulean Ozarow Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Romance in the Post-Digital Age 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 29 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Katrina Rae Mirchin Gold Key Poetry observations at 5 30 am Katrina Rae Mirchin Honorable Mention Poetry naked at the beach My Truth (inspired By Nikki Giovanni's "Ego Tripping (there must be a reason Simone Raleigh Silver Key Poetry why)" Juliana Ramirez Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Majestic, Magnificent, Michelle Elsie Ramos Honorable Mention Science Fiction/Fantasy The Lost Ones Clio Rao Honorable Mention Short Story Bomber #172 The Yellow X: An Analysis of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photograph by Daniel Sofia Raso Honorable Mention Critical Essay Berehulak Virgil Ratner Honorable Mention Poetry Promenade Virgil Ratner Silver Key Short Story Brake Pads Virgil Ratner Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Matryoshka Mia Reiland Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Twelve Steps to Growing up Rebecca Working in Front of the Guggenheim: Life as a Hot Dog Vendor on the Upper Mia Reiland Honorable Mention Journalism East Side Mia Reiland Gold Key Short Story How to Cook Penne Alla Vodka Mia Reiland Gold Key Humor You Will Not Want to Miss the Top 10 Catcalls of 2018 Mia Reiland Gold Key Poetry This Love’s Sweet Like Tooth Decay Mia Reiland Silver Key Poetry pick a side Eleanor Reinhold Honorable Mention Poetry Sisters Eleanor Reinhold Honorable Mention Poetry Ringlets Rebecca Reinhold Silver Key Poetry Cliff Diving Claire Reisberg Gold Key Flash Fiction The Story Claire Reisberg Silver Key Poetry To My Favorite Extrovert Claire Reisberg Silver Key Poetry The Almost Fits In Haley Resnick Honorable Mention Poetry Silence Haley Resnick Silver Key Poetry Most Serious Porter Reyes Honorable Mention Journalism Art After Assault Porter Reyes Honorable Mention Journalism PC Culture is Not the Enemy -- Our Resentment is Porter Reyes Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Passing William Reymann Honorable Mention Humor Smaller This Year Amanda Reynoso Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Runaways 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 31 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Bellamy Richardson Silver Key Dramatic Script Back in Sharon Bellamy Richardson Gold Key Short Story The Third Grade, 1980 Bellamy Richardson Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir My New York City Bellamy Richardson Silver Key Dramatic Script A Very Fishberger Bicentennial Emily Rinaldi Silver Key Journalism BookCon Inigo Rivera Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Communicator Luz Rivera Honorable Mention Poetry was, is, will be Luz Rivera Gold Key Poetry monster Clementine Roach Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Blue Finnegan Roach Silver Key Short Story Patient Vultures Daphne Robbins Honorable Mention Short Story Beyond the Fence Daphne Robbins Silver Key Critical Essay Review of Montevallo by Sam Hunt Pilot Roberts Silver Key Flash Fiction The Couple on the Top Floor Sasha Lynn Roberts Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Disgusting Sasha Lynn Roberts Silver Key Flash Fiction Now and Again Maxine Roeder Silver Key Poetry Coming Home Maxine Roeder Honorable Mention Poetry Resting Place Maxine Roeder Honorable Mention Short Story Ice Maxine Roeder Honorable Mention Short Story Tracing Steps Maxine Roeder Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Significance of Nature Maxine Roeder Gold Key Poetry 5:52 am, post daylight savings Maxine Roeder Silver Key Poetry Dimmed Light Petra Romero Silver Key Flash Fiction The Butterfly Garden Xiaolin Rong Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Summer Rain Lauren Rooney Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir My Labyrinth Marisa Rosado Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Prospect Park, Brooklyn - December 24, 1969 Marisa Rosado Honorable Mention Journalism Sexism In Gym To what extent is On the Road a commentary on the attainability of the Marisa Rosado Gold Key Critical Essay American dream? 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 32 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Marisa Rosado Honorable Mention Flash Fiction “In Case of Emergency…” Marisa Rosado Silver Key Writing Portfolio A Sense of Divine Chance Clara Rosarius Honorable Mention Writing Portfolio somewhere, yet nowhere Clara Rosarius Gold Key Poetry self-doubt Jake Rosenbluth Honorable Mention Poetry A Boy Crying Emma Rosenkranz Honorable Mention Poetry Nightmares Emma Rosenkranz Honorable Mention Poetry Sonnet II, I Will Oskar Rosenstein Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Tales of the Crystal Titan Zola Ross-Gray Honorable Mention Dramatic Script A Scene from an Urban Play Stella Rothfeld Silver Key Poetry Breakdown Of Irrationality Charlotte Rotlander Silver Key Flash Fiction Clown Charlotte Rotlander Gold Key Critical Essay Review of Matchbox Twenty&'s More Than You Think You Are Una Roven Honorable Mention Poetry summer far from new york city Nicole Rozelman Gold Key Short Story Everybody Likes Caramel Douglass and Twain At A Bar: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass vs. Roshnie Rupnarain Gold Key Poetry Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Sydni - Sophia Russell Honorable Mention Short Story The Bells Are Ringing Kevin Rutledge Silver Key Poetry You Ask Why Sofi Saba Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir My Guardian Angel Veda Safranek Honorable Mention Short Story My Story Jake Sage Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Story Time Jake Sage Silver Key Humor The Day in the Life of Coach Andrew the God Simone Saidmehr Silver Key Poetry Of October Simone Saidmehr Silver Key Journalism #MeToo: The Power of a Hashtag Harrison Saladini Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Nature Versus Nurture: The Undying Contest Daleelah Saleh Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Paradox of Duality Daleelah Saleh Silver Key Poetry The Birth Binary Daleelah Saleh Honorable Mention Poetry Ode to the Girls Daleelah Saleh Silver Key Poetry Hourglass Oscar Salem Silver Key Poetry Beethoven I guess Olivia Salvage Gold Key Poetry Ajax's Fury Benjamin Samuels Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir History And The Game 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 33 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Benjamin Samuels Silver Key Critical Essay Nelly Bly: The First Investigative Journalist Katherine Sanchez Honorable Mention Poetry wishing you well Katherine Sanchez Gold Key Poetry RANDOM AUTOBIOGRAPHY LIV SANDBERG Honorable Mention Short Story The Accident Isabelle Sanderson Honorable Mention Poetry Pink Feet Iris Santalucia Gold Key Dramatic Script Speaking Kayla Santos Sabino Honorable Mention Science Fiction/Fantasy Astomnia Sophia Sarno Silver Key Short Story King of the Bugs Sara Sash Honorable Mention Critical Essay Righteous War: The Battle to Force Parents to Immunize Their Children Margaret Schaffzin Silver Key Critical Essay The Upside Down: Power Structures in The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Schaffzin Silver Key Short Story The In-between Talia Scheinberg Honorable Mention Flash Fiction grief Ainsley Scheiner Silver Key Poetry Creeping and Climbing Ainsley Scheiner Honorable Mention Flash Fiction For Dawn Ainsley Scheiner Honorable Mention Short Story Knives and Red Dresses Talin Schell Gold Key Poetry Sob Stories Oliver Schiff Stein Silver Key Poetry Touch Perfect, America Used To Be Ours, Hard Lockdown Alex Schimel Honorable Mention Humor How to Succeed as a Prep. School Student Andrew Schmidt Honorable Mention Flash Fiction One Swing Chiara Schmidt Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir My Soundless World Linus Schneider Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Speak Ayla Schultz Silver Key Short Story Ionic Compounds Ayla Schultz Gold Key Flash Fiction Cumin and Feathers Ayla Schultz Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Park Bench Ayla Schultz Gold Key Poetry Looking Back Ayla Schultz Silver Key Poetry Mid-Afternoon Showers Ayla Schultz Honorable Mention Poetry The Hurricane Ayla Schultz Honorable Mention Poetry Flatline Lydia Schultz Silver Key Flash Fiction Andie Garrick Schwartz Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Transcendent Memories Frances Schwarz Silver Key Poetry Poetry Collection Frances Schwarz Gold Key Short Story Casadastraphobia 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 34 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Aaron Seibert Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Sweet Theory of Mercantilism Turned Sour Krupa Sekhar Honorable Mention Poetry Rose-scented Soap Beatrice Selch Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Conquering Your Fears Beatrice Selch Honorable Mention Short Story Paris Gabe Sender Honorable Mention Science Fiction/Fantasy Desolation Melissa Sepulveda Gold Key Poetry Catcalling Theodore Servedio Honorable Mention Poetry Childhood Color Amalie Seth Silver Key Critical Essay To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Sandhya Sethuraman Honorable Mention Poetry hips Sandhya Sethuraman Silver Key Flash Fiction shedding Cricket Sevener Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Young Woman on the Pedestal Cricket Sevener Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir A Place Called the Nest Cricket Sevener Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir A Cycle of Sea Shells Rishi Shah Silver Key Poetry Burning Reema Shah Demopoulos Honorable Mention Poetry cross-country Connor Shalom Honorable Mention Poetry He Is Drowning, Help Him Saya Shamdasani Silver Key Flash Fiction Alana, My Ghost Saya Shamdasani Honorable Mention Short Story Celia Loved the Rain Claire Shang Silver Key Poetry Haibun for Sunken Ship Claire Shang Silver Key Poetry Ears (Broken Ghazal), Running Backwards Claire Shang Silver Key Poetry Halved, Gentrifier Claire Shang Silver Key Poetry Self-Portrait with Blue Eyes, Inheritance Clara Shapiro Honorable Mention Short Story The Carnival Clara Shapiro Gold Key Poetry Metal Oaks Clara Shapiro Silver Key Humor Angel "Skinny Pistol" Johnson Clara Shapiro Honorable Mention Critical Essay Caste: A Thing of the Past? Katherine Sheehan Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Timelessness of a Smile Clancy Sheridan Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Sister Katherine Sherman Honorable Mention Poetry Sunlight Katherine Sherman Gold Key Poetry Girl Without a Face, And Now For the Waiting, Shame sanjida sheuba Silver Key Poetry The Empty Room Nicole Shevchukevych Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir A New Season 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 35 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. Requests for edits will not be accommodated. Student First Student Last Award Category Title Connor Shillington Honorable Mention Poetry Alone Again..., Afloat, A Lost Soul, My Closest Friends Connor Shillington Honorable Mention Short Story The Cub Tzirel Shteierman Honorable Mention Poetry To All The People On This Earth Chana Shutyak Honorable Mention Short Story Smile and Nod Annie Siegel Gold Key Humor An Analytical Rant Marin Silverman Gold Key Short Story The Sense of Memory Lola Simon Honorable Mention Poetry Dinosaurs Lola Simon Gold Key Poetry Primary Lola Simon Honorable Mention Poetry Kafka on the Meaning of Life Lola Simon Honorable Mention Poetry Apparition of a Cat Visits in the Morning Gold Key, American Alyssa Simone Voices Nominee Poetry If I Could Catch the Falling Stars Alyssa Simone Honorable Mention Poetry Bad Poetry Raphael Simonson Gold Key Critical Essay Resolving a Question of Word-Choice Samantha Sinensky Gold Key Journalism On the Search for Greener Pastures Too Much of a Good Thing: Over-expanded Religious Freedom and Masterpiece kiran singh Silver Key Critical Essay Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission Sunita Singh Honorable Mention Poetry Tea Sunita Singh Silver Key Poetry Weeds and Flowers Sunita Singh Gold Key Poetry Handle with Care Mya Singh-Johal Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir When They Hear The Voiceless Suhaylah Sirajul-Islam Gold Key Poetry Identity Poem Charlotte Sirota Gold Key Flash Fiction She Looks Out For Me Eliana Sirota Silver Key Poetry A Prayer On Yom Kippur Eliana Sirota Silver Key Poetry Loving Is Implicit Henry Sirota Silver Key Poetry The Curious Pigeon Himani Sirsi Honorable Mention Short Story The Inevitable Future Himani Sirsi Honorable Mention Journalism The Obligation to endure analysis Nina Sloan Silver Key Critical Essay Performative Sexuality: A Case Study in A Streetcar Named Desire Nina Sloan Silver Key Critical Essay Sex as Weapon in A Midsummer Night's Dream Nina Sloan Silver Key Critical Essay Hell on Earth Nina Sloan Silver Key Critical Essay Bare Bones 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 36 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Erland Slorer Gold Key Poetry Blue Abyss: A Sonnet Isabella Smeets Honorable Mention Poetry The Way the Light Plays Against Our Faces Daniel Smith Honorable Mention Short Story A Fatefull Day Frances Smith Honorable Mention Critical Essay Inside Out and Back again Graham Smith Honorable Mention Poetry The Fire Lucy Smith Silver Key Poetry 5:17 Emma Sobel Silver Key Poetry Spring Dawn Sanaa Sondhi Honorable Mention Poetry A Letter to South Africa Dana Song Honorable Mention Poetry Beyond Means Dana Song Gold Key Poetry Ring of Phoenix Karen Song Silver Key Short Story Stupid Girl Beck Sonstein Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Freeze Watch Katherine Soto Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Sleep Katherine Soto Silver Key Critical Essay Shawn Mendes Eliza Spinna Gold Key Poetry Two Sisters, The Fourth Of July, 2008 Eliza Spinna Silver Key Poetry Little Brother Eliza Spinna Honorable Mention Poetry Road Trip Eliza Spinna Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir The Power and Brilliance of Silence Tamar Spoerri Silver Key Poetry New Year&'s, nyc holiday Tamar Spoerri Silver Key Critical Essay Sincerity of Leaders in Macbeth Silent Communication, Strangers Today, Too Big Tonight, When They Forgot to Tamar Spoerri Silver Key Poetry Be Drudges Tamar Spoerri Honorable Mention Poetry Meditations On Stars, How To Hide Immaturity Charlotte Spohler Gold Key Critical Essay The Unfiltered Otherness and Autonomy of Josephine Baker and Cardi B Miriam Spokojny Silver Key Writing Portfolio My White Noise Machine Ella Spungen Silver Key Journalism Fractured Faith Shailee Sran Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir My Family and Chai Shailee Sran Honorable Mention Critical Essay Revisiting America's Founding Mariya Starominskaya Gold Key Poetry Himself Jing Yan Sterling Honorable Mention Poetry Intro, Curly Fries, Cotton Candy, Peppers, Laila Stevens Honorable Mention Writing Portfolio reflection of the internal Luna Stuart-Burns Honorable Mention Poetry Features 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 37 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Abigail Sylvor Greenberg Gold Key Poetry when you think you are a cistern Abigail Sylvor Greenberg Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir I Want to Be a Topknot Girl Abigail Sylvor Greenberg Silver Key Journalism Discrimination in NYC Snowstorm Management Abigail Sylvor Greenberg Silver Key Journalism Students Issue Cry for Gun Reform, Echoing Youth of 1968 Abigail Sylvor Greenberg Silver Key Journalism Department of Education Threatens Federal Guidance on School Discipline Abigail Sylvor Greenberg Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Nana Corrects Herself Abigail Sylvor Greenberg Honorable Mention Dramatic Script The Cats Abigail Sylvor Greenberg Silver Key Poetry recurrence//radiohead Abigail Sylvor Greenberg Honorable Mention Poetry Not Six Feet Andrew Tachman Silver Key Poetry Tired Ivy Tam Gold Key Flash Fiction Don't Say Goodbye Jeffrey Tan Honorable Mention Short Story Recovery Joanna Tan Silver Key Flash Fiction Not My Dog Sarah Tang Gold Key Flash Fiction Forgotten Sarah Tang Honorable Mention Critical Essay Prophetic Perspectives on Self and Society Sarah Tang Gold Key Flash Fiction Rat's Nest Sarah Tang Honorable Mention Flash Fiction The End of The Rainbow Sarah Tang Silver Key Poetry Words William Tang Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir A Nice Day Alyce Tanner Silver Key Flash Fiction Stuck In Forgotten Michael Tanz Honorable Mention Critical Essay A Family Fractured by the Pain of Slavery Michael Tanz Silver Key Critical Essay Carrie White, a Testament to Everytown, USA&'s Self-Destructive Leanings Michael Tanz Honorable Mention Humor Stuck 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 38 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student activism is stronger than ever Leah Teichholtz Honorable Mention Humor Letter of Recommendation: Disposable Wooden Chopsticks Claire Tempelman Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir My Brother Remy Tepner Honorable Mention Short Story Croatia Airlines Remy Tepner Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir My Connection Madeleine Tierney Honorable Mention Short Story Dead Ahead Ben Togut Gold Key Short Story Phyllis Ben Togut Honorable Mention Short Story Jasmine and Nadine Ben Togut Gold Key Poetry An Ode to Pang Ching-yu Ben Togut Honorable Mention Writing Portfolio Coming Into My Own Ben Togut Honorable Mention Short Story Hold Me Ben Togut Silver Key Poetry Verse Ben Togut Silver Key Poetry Loss of Innocence Ben Togut Silver Key Poetry Sleepless and All Beatrice Tong Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Beholden Austin Trevino Honorable Mention Critical Essay Finding Home Hedy Tung Gold Key Short Story The River Hedy Tung Honorable Mention Short Story Everglades Hedy Tung Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Who Needs A Watchman When You Have Family Tristan Turner Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The POWER of Education Marin Tyree Silver Key Short Story Secret Life of Bees Continuation Aaron Tyutyunik Honorable Mention Science Fiction/Fantasy The See-Through Man 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 39 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Alena Underwood Gold Key Poetry Noises I Do Not Understand Katherine Ureña Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Most Deserving Soldier Alondra Uribe Gold Key Poetry An Ode to The Bronx, Dear The Bronx Gold Key, American Alondra Uribe Voices Nominee Poetry For Woman, How to become a God Alondra Uribe Silver Key Poetry Color Blind, Ode to the Missing Black Girls Alondra Uribe Gold Key Poetry Poetry, God Annabella Ursano Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir Billie's Big Debut Princess Uwawuike Gold Key Short Story Questions Princess Uwawuike Honorable Mention Poetry Ethical Princess Uwawuike Honorable Mention Short Story The Eyes are Deceiving Princess Uwawuike Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Hide Behind the Moon Princess Uwawuike Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Human Nature Princess Uwawuike Silver Key Journalism Meet the Muse: Group.Br's Wild Heart Princess Uwawuike Silver Key Writing Portfolio Muse Vanesa Vargas Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Her-Panic Vanesa Vargas Honorable Mention Poetry Ode: Shatter Glass Vanessa Vasquez Silver Key Short Story The Alzheimer's Collection Vanessa Vasquez Gold Key Short Story where flowers grow Isha Vasudev Honorable Mention Poetry Seasonal Breaking Ground with a Bias: The Intersection Between the Birth Control and Isha Vasudev Honorable Mention Critical Essay Eugenics Movements in 1920s America Witty Vaughan-Wasser Honorable Mention Poetry Ode to my Stretch Marks Frances Velez Honorable Mention Science Fiction/Fantasy The Crumbs of Time Emma Venarde Honorable Mention Poetry Sunsets Gabriella Vermut Honorable Mention Poetry The Shadow Olivia Verteniku Silver Key Poetry I Am... 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Sophia Votis Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Reading Between the Lines Emma Wahl Gold Key Short Story As it is Samantha Wainapel Silver Key Poetry Self Portrait Phoebe Wakabayashi Honorable Mention Short Story Summer 1984 Phoebe Wakabayashi Honorable Mention Flash Fiction The Green-Eyed Boy Eli Waksbaum Honorable Mention Poetry Last Updated Eli Waksbaum Honorable Mention Dramatic Script Hubris Georgia Wallace Honorable Mention Poetry Walden Lake Liam Walsh Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir The Disappearance of Rusty the Cat Mary Lawrence Ware Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Introduction to a Pen Rebecca Wasserman Gold Key Critical Essay Sex, Venereal Diseases, and Women in World War II Mia Wattenberg Honorable Mention Science Fiction/Fantasy Life Is But A Dream Beaux Watwood Honorable Mention Critical Essay Dear English Teachers Beaux Watwood Honorable Mention Humor Graphic Content Beaux Watwood Gold Key Writing Portfolio Seventeen Olivia Wein Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Hole: This Is Where We Are Madeline Weinberg Silver Key Flash Fiction Stupid Coffee Shop Madeline Weinberg Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Hope Emidia Weinstock Honorable Mention Novel Writing It Wasn&'t Love Elijah Weiss Silver Key Critical Essay TV Show Review of Black Lightning Elijah Weiss Honorable Mention Short Story The Painter Gold Key, American Abraham Weitzman Voices Nominee Personal Essay/Memoir Just Keep Swimming Abraham Weitzman Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Journey from the Center of the Earth Abraham Weitzman Silver Key Dramatic Script Brothers Dexter Wells Honorable Mention Critical Essay To Rule With Fear or Love? - A Study of Two Empires Peter Wenger Honorable Mention Critical Essay The Articles of Confederation: Americas Foundation Sylvana Widman Gold Key Critical Essay Shining Schoolhouse on a Hill Miguel Williams Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Game Summer Williams Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Butterflies Elah Wilson Gold Key Critical Essay John Brown, An American Hero and a Fanatic Lili Wilson Gold Key Short Story Homescreen 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 41 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Why Did the Child Cross the Road… to Get to the Adult Side: Aging and Lili Wilson Silver Key Critical Essay Innocence in The Catcher in the Rye Lili Wilson Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Letter to New York Kiera Wing Silver Key Short Story Hidden Truth Cameron Winter Honorable Mention Short Story American ruin Leora wisnicki Gold Key Poetry If Only Kyle Wo Honorable Mention Poetry Rest In Peace Jahseh Gold Key, American Samantha Wo Voices Nominee Poetry Mommy and Daddy Samantha Wo Honorable Mention Critical Essay Catcher In The Rye - Family Relationships Miranda Wollen Gold Key Poetry Numbers Kenny Wong Honorable Mention Poetry The Medieval Worldview Maren Wong Honorable Mention Poetry A Girl Called She Thisbe Wu Honorable Mention Poetry City Quiet Progressive Causes of a Conservative Movement: Roles of Social and Chelsea Xia Honorable Mention Critical Essay Economic Reform in the Popularization of Eugenics Girls Just Wanna Have Sun: The Symbolic Meaning of Sunshine in The Scarlet Chelsea Xia Silver Key Critical Essay Letter Annabelle Xing Honorable Mention Poetry Seventh Heaven Bliss Arvin Xu Honorable Mention Short Story Rat Race Christine Xu Honorable Mention Humor Tartlets, Chops, and Profiteroles Cindy Xu Gold Key Flash Fiction Return of the Crown Emily Xu Silver Key Poetry Modern Woman Emily Xu Silver Key Critical Essay Good Fences Make A Good Platform for Activism Emily Xu Gold Key Short Story Chaos Emily Xu Honorable Mention Writing Portfolio Tiny Miracles Madison Xu Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir The Language of a Smile Madison Xu Honorable Mention Poetry Papayas Madison Xu Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Before the Cannon Sounds Madison Xu Silver Key Poetry The Cry Of Twenty-Thousand Mothers Emma Yang Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir The Fall of the Cat Emma Yang Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Noodle Shop 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 42 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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Student First Student Last Award Category Title Hyunseo Yang Silver Key Poetry Reflections of Chaos Kaitlyn Yang Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Song of Angels Kaitlyn Yang Silver Key Poetry Seven Kaitlyn Yang Silver Key Poetry Doll House Rachel Yang Honorable Mention Poetry Today I Drown Serena Yang Silver Key Short Story Ghosts in Jiading Serena Yang Gold Key Personal Essay/Memoir I Configure Home Serena Yang Honorable Mention Short Story Landfall Serena Yang Honorable Mention Poetry last night i dreamed of chinatown Serena Yang Silver Key Writing Portfolio I Mistake My Body for a Body of Water Serena Yang Honorable Mention Poetry Liminality Serena Yang Honorable Mention Poetry in love with flowers or a ghost Nancy Yao Gold Key Short Story The Thing About Grace Ava Yassari Gold Key Poetry Walden Pond, Sestina Catherine Ye Gold Key Science Fiction/Fantasy The Key to Government Catherine Ye Silver Key Critical Essay An Analysis of Gloucester in King Lear Catherine Ye Gold Key Critical Essay An Analysis of "The Easel" by Sharon Olds Eileen Ye Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Black Mirror Jasmin Yeung Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir Thirteen Thousand Kilometers Eugene Yoo Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir How it feels to be a Korean American Eugene Yoo Gold Key Journalism CTE and Concussions Almer Yu Silver Key Personal Essay/Memoir to my poh-poh/ the grandmother I never had Almer Yu Gold Key Poetry you aren't Claire Yu Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir My Grandmother&'s Hands Claire Yu Gold Key Poetry You, She Cynthia Yu Honorable Mention Flash Fiction Beauty Grace Yu Honorable Mention Personal Essay/Memoir Because of Asian JJ Yu Silver Key Science Fiction/Fantasy Crashing Water JJ Yu Honorable Mention Short Story Insert Photo of Deceased Here JJ Yu Honorable Mention Short Story Seedless JJ Yu Honorable Mention Short Story Harvest JJ Yu Honorable Mention Poetry not near 2019 NYC Scholastic Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Silver Key, and Gold Key Recipients Page 43 of 44 All information appears exactly as it was provided during the submission process. 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