MKA Junior Wins Prestigious Gold Key Award for Poetry

Congratulations to MKA junior Zoe Ferguson who has won the prestigious Gold Key Regional Award for Poetry in the 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing competition, and now moves on to the National Awards level.

Founded in 1923, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, is the oldest, longest running and most eminent recognition program for creative teenagers in grades 7-12 in the United States.  Former winners include Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath and Joyce Carol Oates. Eighty-one regional affiliates review more than 140,000 submissions of art and writing from students across the country using the criteria of originality, technical skill and the emergence of a personal vision or voice.

Zoe submitted two award-winning poems: "Memory" and "Hurricane". At MKA, she is co-Editor-in-Chief both of The Academy News student newspaper and Stylus, an annual student arts publication.