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WISCASSET — Five students attending Chewonki Elementary and Middle School took top honors from the Scholastic Art & Writing regional awards recently as a part of the nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens.
Nyssa Wilkinson, from Bremen, received a gold key award for her short story “Dandelions,” while Hunter Winn, of Georgetown, Huckleberry Huber-Rees, of Alna, and Acadia Guilani of West Bath all received silver key awards. Noah Arbuckle, of Newcastle, received an honorable mention, as did Wilkinson, Huber-Rees and Winn for additional entries.
The students all attend the same seventh/eighth-grade writing class.
As a gold key winner, Wilkinson’s entry will advance to the national level, where it will be considered for the highest level of awards, including Gold Medal, Silver Medal with Distinction, Silver Medal, and several scholarship opportunities.
Copies of student’s winning entries are available to read on the Chewonki website, chewonki.org, and include writing in the short fiction, poetry, flash fiction, memoir, and critical essay categories: “Dandelions” and “Saltwater Canoe Expedition” by Wilkinson, “A Map of My Life” by Arbuckle, “Cardinal Snow” and “Why 3 Day Weekends Can Change Us For the Better” by Winn, “The Cure Conspiracy” and “An Unknown Train” by Huber-Rees, and “Forgetting” by Guliani.
