In the 2016 regional Scholastic Writing Awards competition, 59 Hathaway Brown students in grades 9-12 earned 132 awards for their poetry, short stories, memoirs, critical essays, fiction, and writing portfolios. This is a record number of Scholastic Awards for HB, and it represents more than half of all the writing honors given to Northeast Ohio students this year.
Several HB girls earned multiple awards in multiple categories, some even having up to 10 pieces of writing selected in this longstanding, highly competitive local and national written arts program.
Scholastic awards are classified as Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention. All of the award-winning work will be displayed digitally on iPads in the new Reinberger Gallery at the Cleveland Institute of Art from January 13-29, and on Saturday, January 16, all Gold Key winners will be celebrated at a special ceremony in the Peter B. Lewis Auditorium at CIA. Each Gold Key-designated work also is eligible for the Scholastic national competition and will be sent to New York City for judging at the close of the exhibition.
HB students earned 19 Gold Keys, 46 Silver Keys, and 67 Honorable Mentions in the 2016 competition. The winners represent all Upper School grade levels, with 24 seniors, 25 juniors, eight sophomores, and two freshmen included on the list. Special thanks to HB's Osborne Writing Center Director Scott Parsons, Upper School English teacher Marty Frazier, and the entire Upper School English department for mentoring the 2016 Scholastic Writing Award recipients and all of our students.
Please join us in congratulating the following students, listed here in alphabetical order:
- Grace Amjad '18: Honorable Mention (2) — Poetry
- Catherine Areklett ’17: Gold Key (3); Honorable Mention — Personal Essay/Memoir (G,HM); Critical Essay (G,G)
- Natuwa Basalirwa ’17: Honorable Mention — Personal Essay/Memoir
- Jane Berick ’19: Honorable Mention — Poetry
- Fiona Blumin ’17: Silver Key — Critical Essay
- Gina Bompiedi ’16: Silver Key — Poetry
- Margaret Broihier ’17: Silver Key — Critical Essay
- Nell Bruckner ’17: Gold Key; Honorable Mention — Personal Essay/Memoir
- Maren Butler ’17: Silver Key — Critical Essay
- Ellie Cascio ’17: Silver Key — Personal Essay/Memoir
- Emily Coffey ’16: Honorable Mention — Critical Essay
- Elisabeth Crotty ’16: Silver Key; Honorable Mention (3) — Poetry (S,HM); Personal Essay/Memoir (HM,HM)
- Oriana Cruz Echeverria ’17: Honorable Mention — Personal Essay/Memoir
- Arielle DeVito ’16: Honorable Mention (2) — Personal Essay/Memoir; Poetry
- Jordan ElHindi ’16: Silver Key — Poetry
- Julia Felderman ’16: Silver Key; Honorable Mention (2) — Poetry (S,HM); Personal Essay/Memoir (HM)
- Holland Galbincea ’17: Honorable Mention — Critical Essay
- Debolina Ghosh ’17: Gold Key; Silver Key — Personal Essay/Memoir
- Kacey Gill ’16: Gold Key (2); Silver Key (3); Honorable Mention (4) — Personal Essay/Memoir (G,S); Writing Portfolio (G); Poetry (S,HM,HM); Flash Fiction (S,HM,HM)
- Lauren Gillinov ’17: Silver Key — Critical Essay
- Kat Holleran ’16: Silver Key; Honorable Mention (2) — Poetry
- Graci Homany ’17: Silver Key (2); Honorable Mention (4) — Poetry (S,HM,HM); Personal Essay/Memoir (S); Critical Essay (HM); Flash Fiction (HM)
- Alexi Jackson ’17: Silver Key — Short Story
- Caroline Jobson ’16: Honorable Mention — Poetry
- Alexia Jones ’17: Silver Key — Critical Essay
- Ananya Kalahasti ’17: Silver Key; Honorable Mention (5) — Critical Essay (S,HM); Poetry (HM,HM,HM); Personal Essay/Memoir (HM)
- Katy Kaufman ’16: Silver Key — Poetry
- Alley Keresztesy ’16: Gold Key; Silver Key — Personal Essay/Memoir (G,S)
- Hanna Keyerleber ’17: Silver Key — Personal Essay/Memoir
- Isha Lele ’18: Gold Key; Honorable Mention — Personal Essay/Memoir (G); Poetry (HM)
- Halle Leneghan ’16: Honorable Mention — Poetry
- Olivia Leslie ’16: Honorable Mention — Poetry
- Annie Lewandowski ’18: Honorable Mention —Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Rachel Lowrie ’16: Silver Key — Short Story
- Maaryah Malik ’16: Silver Key; Honorable Mention (3) — Personal Essay/Memoir (S); Poetry (HM,HM,HM)
- Annabel Meals ’17: Honorable Mention — Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Valerie Mischka ’18: Honorable Mention — Poetry
- Julia Sofia Moreno ’18: Honorable Mention — Poetry
- Isabella Nilsson ’16: Gold Key (3); Silver Key (2); Honorable Mention (2) — Short Story (G,S,S); Flash Fiction (G,HM,HM); Dramatic Script (G)
- Ela Passarelli ’18: Gold Key — Short Story
- Christine Passerell ’17: Honorable Mention — Critical Essay
- Maria Perilla ’17: Silver Key; Honorable Mention (2) — Personal Essay/Memoir (S); Poetry (HM,HM)
- Rosalie Phillips ’16: Gold Key; Honorable Mention — Personal Essay/Memoir
- Kavya Ravichandran ’16: Silver Key — Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Amaya Razmi ’18: Silver Key — Poetry
- Kelsey Rich ’16: Gold Key; Silver Key; Honorable Mention — Poetry (G); Short Story (S); Science Fiction/Fantasy (HM)
- Leia Rich ’17: Silver Key — Personal Essay/Memoir
- McKenna Ritter ’16: Gold Key (3); Silver Key (3); Honorable Mention (4) — Poetry (G,S,S,HM,HM); Personal Essay/Memoir (G,G,HM); Writing Portfolio (S,HM)
- Julia Sabik ’17: Silver Key (3); Honorable Mention — Personal Essay/Memoir (S,S); Critical Essay (S,HM)
- Aarathi Sahadevan ’16: Honorable Mention — Personal Essay/Memoir
- Evie Schumann ’16: Honorable Mention (4) — Poetry (2); Personal Essay/Memoir (2)
- Chloe Schwartz ’17: Honorable Mention — Poetry
- Samantha Scott ’17: Honorable Mention — Critical Essay
- Madeline Shade ’16: Silver Key (3); Honorable Mention — Poetry (S,S); Science Fiction/Fantasy (S,HM)
- Molly Sharpe ’16: Silver Key (2); Honorable Mention (2) — Poetry
- Lydia Spencer ’17: Silver Key; Honorable Mention (2) — Personal Essay/Memoir (S,HM); Critical Essay (HM)
- Nitya Thakore ’17: Silver Key (2) — Personal Essay/Memoir; Flash Fiction
- Alison Xin ’19: Gold Key — Humor
- Crystal Zhao ’18: Silver Key; Honorable Mention — Poetry (S); Flash Fiction (HM)