The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards is a series of regional and national competitions where students from across the United States compete in 29 art and writing categories. Visual and literary art leaders each year judge over 300,000 submissions by originality, technical skill, and personal voice or vision criteria.

Dalton students grades 7-12 won 83 total accolades, including 19 coveted Gold Key Awards, which are automatically considered for national-level recognition. Thirty-four individual Dalton students accounted for 58 Writing awards, while nine students collected 25 Art awards.
 
Congratulations to all of our Scholastic winners for their dedication to creativity and the arts!.

Name	Individual Awards	Work Category	Work Title
Ciara Balanza	Gold Key	Poetry	A rock as light as a feather
Zoe Ehrenkranz	Gold Key	Critical Essay	Uncompromising Agency in a Compromised Relationship
Miles Gumbs	Gold Key	Critical Essay	The United States Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee: The Exploitation of Black Bodies in the Medical Institution
Sam Kaplan	Gold Key	Personal Essay & Memoir	Life of a House
Haeon Lee	Gold Key	Critical Essay	Infinity is Identity in “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities”
Anya Levin	Gold Key	Poetry	Eight AM
Anya Levin	Gold Key	Poetry	Unorthodox
Arav Mehta	Gold Key	Poetry	Papers
Arav Mehta	Gold Key	Personal Essay & Memoir	America's Unfair Board Game
Max Mottola	Gold Key	Short Story	Environment's Wrath
Lylah Patel	Gold Key	Personal Essay & Memoir	When in Venice
William George Porteous	Gold Key	Poetry	Elegies
Luke Rostan	Gold Key	Critical Essay	The Man Who Dared to Strive
Daniel Slater	Gold Key	Humor	What Ho, Apothecary!
Charlotte Sleeper	Gold Key	Poetry	To Use Shakespearean Form
Ciara Balanza	Silver Key	Personal Essay & Memoir	Scaredy Cat
Ciara Balanza	Silver Key	Critical Essay	Persephone Caught in the Middle
Olivia Cooney	Silver Key	Short Story	A Fabulous Summer Vacation
Cole Corper	Silver Key	Personal Essay & Memoir	The Blues
Mira Gulati	Silver Key	Personal Essay & Memoir	The Trials and Tribulations of Pumpkins and Grief
Sarah Jeddy	Silver Key	Flash Fiction	The Apocalypse
Tali Kantor Lieber	Silver Key	Personal Essay & Memoir	Adventures in Genesis Land
Tali Kantor Lieber	Silver Key	Personal Essay & Memoir	Musings From the F Train
Aida Kasparova	Silver Key	Critical Essay	Bigotry and Prejudice: The Telling Reveal of the 1925 Scopes Trial
Eileen Li	Silver Key	Personal Essay & Memoir	Symphony for Two
Maxwell Massiah	Silver Key	Short Story	Entries from a Civil Fighter
Kaitlyn Pohly	Silver Key	Poetry	A Letter Home from Leadville, Colorado
Ela Roso	Silver Key	Personal Essay & Memoir	The Way Flowers Bloom
Luke Rostan	Silver Key	Critical Essay	A Crusade for "Civilization": The Colonial Response to Islam in British Sierra Leone
Ava Rubinstein	Silver Key	Critical Essay	A Rift In The Suffrage Movement
Daniel Slater	Silver Key	Humor	Isaac, Bound
Simon Smith	Silver Key	Short Story	Rotten Meat
Leo Yu	Silver Key	Critical Essay	Defiance Through Compliance
Mirabelle Zhang	Silver Key	Poetry	Confessions to Make Ghosts Out Of
Ciara Balanza	Honorable Mention	Dramatic Script	The Derby
Ciara Balanza	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	A Cheerleader’s Free Speech on Social Media
Solomon Feder	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	Narrative Style of The Handmaid's Tale
Mika Higgins-Woo	Honorable Mention	Short Story	A Circle of Hands
Katherine Hwang	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	Confronting Fate: Oedipus Rex and Mamet’s Perfect Tragedy
Katherine Hwang	Honorable Mention	Poetry	Resonance
Tali Kantor Lieber	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	The Ethiopian Cross’s Communicative Nature
Haeon Lee	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	Trevor Noah’s Uniqueness in the Late Night Genre
Haeon Lee	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	Reflection in the Other: O’Brien’s Trajectory of Grief
Ella Mettke	Honorable Mention	Flash Fiction	The Local News
Kaitlyn Pohly	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	The Complexity of Jewish Identity Through a Personal Lens
William George Porteous	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	Lethargy and Labor in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"
Charlotte Sleeper	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	Exploring the Word “Dream” in Fahrenheit 451
Charlotte Sleeper	Honorable Mention	Poetry	Grief in the Age of COVID
Simon Smith	Honorable Mention	Humor	The American Dream
Simon Smith	Honorable Mention	Short Story	Oil on a High Branch
Leo Yu	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	Visions of Fatherhood
Leo Yu	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	Nature, Wildness, and Female Agency in Morrison’s A Mercy
Quentin Balboni	Honorable Mention	Personal Essay & Memoir	Crow's Feet
Solomon Feder	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	The Creators of the Constitution and Their Responses to the Articles Of Confederation
Haeon Lee	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	Raise a Glass to Cultural Economics: What Guilds Meant to the Medieval World
Anya Levin	Honorable Mention	Science Fiction & Fantasy	Prism
Julia Miyasaka	Honorable Mention	Science Fiction & Fantasy	Swan Song
Jasmine Wynn	Honorable Mention	Critical Essay	Colonization and Culture: The Tale of 19th Century Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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