GFA is pleased to announce this year's winners in the regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Students across Grades 8-12 earned a total of 72 awards, including Gold Keys, Silver Keys, and Honorable Mentions.
In addition to the key-level awards, Suzaran ’26 was named an American Voices Nominee, a prestigious regional distinction awarded to select Gold Key recipients. Up to five students per region are nominated, and one nominee from each region will ultimately receive a national American Voices Medal. Miranda ’30 and Benny ’30 were also recognized as two of the nine recipients of the inaugural Tricia Baldes Prize, a regional award honoring middle school students who demonstrate exceptional skill and promise in their Scholastic Award entries.
Gold Key entries now advance to the national level, where they will be considered for top honors and scholarships later this spring. Congratulations to the below winners on their achievements!
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Gold Key - Memoir/Personal Essay
- Miranda ’30 - "Vergiftigd Paars"
Gold Key - Poetry
- Benny ’30 - "Watch Her"
Silver Key - Memoir/Personal Essay
- Ari ’30 - "The Thin Crust"
- Audrey ’30 - "Empty Driveway"
- Audrey ’30 - "Swimming Out of the Dark"
- Drew ’30 - "Buried Treasures"
- Lexie ’30 - "Through the Clouds"
- Marisa ’30 - "An Unfamiliar Face"
- Nora ’30 - "Falling Into Place"
Silver Key - Poetry
- Audrey ’30 - "I Will Always Return"
- Audrey ’30 - "The Brightest Sound"
- Emerson ’30 - "Sunshine on My Wrist"
- Roger ’30 - "Mourning Doves"
Honorable Mention - Memoir/Personal Essay
- Austin ’30 - "A Lonely Glow"
- Beckett ’30 - "Never Gone but Just Away"
- Colin ’30 - "The View From the Top"
- Ellie ’30 - "Seasons of Catharsis"
- Emerson ’30 - "Buried Treasure"
- Julien ’30 - "The Nervous Hour"
- Mackenzie ’30 - "Little Rivers"
- Reagan ’30 - "Teary Twilight"
- Rylan ’30 - "Old Swing"
- Wyatt ’30 - "A Home Beneath the Trees"
Honorable Mention - Poetry
- Benjamin ’30 - "The Abstract Arts"
- Eliana ’30 - "Helios"
- Ellie ’30 - "A Broken Translator (Synesthetic Alexithymia)"
- Ellie ’30 - "An Unkind Mirror"
- Emerson ’30 - "Tree Farm Goosebumps"
- Emmeline ’30 - "A Treasure Lost to Time"
- Emmeline ’30 - "Fading Colors"
- Lily ’30 - "A Broken Soul"
- Lincoln ’30 - "Cold Feet"
- Skylar ’30 - "The Unnoticed Change"
- Taylor ’30 - "Tell Me Tulip"
UPPER SCHOOL
Gold Key - Memoir/Personal Essay
- Delilah ’26 - “Rose Hips”
Gold Key - Poetry
- Cam ’27 - "An Eroded Face"
- Eli ’26 - "her body, not her name"
- Piper ’26 - "Three Squeezes"
- Suzuran ’26 - "Cape May, A Different Year"
Silver Key - Memoir/Personal Essay
- Casey ’26 - "13 Ways of Looking at My Brain"
- Delilah ’26 - "Patience"
- Natalie ’27 - " A Chilly Secret"
Silver Key - Poetry
- Alex ’27 - "Song of My Agony"
- Anthony ’29 - "The Allegory"
- Briana ’26 - "The Observer"
- Cece ’27 - "smashed nectarines and i'm still writing this with chapped lips"
- Nia ’27 - "Write Me Into Your Will"
- Sadie ’28 - "Rain"
- Sadie ’28 - "Shooting Star"
Honorable Mention - Journalism
- Sydney ’26 - “A Crunchy Scoop Into the Westport Mom Blog”
Honorable Mention - Memoir/Personal Essay
- Luke ’27 - “Drink Your Coffee Outside”
Honorable Mention - Poetry
- Amelia ’27 - "Ghost"
- Anthony ’29 - "Lonely, Sitting on a Rock"
- Anya ’27 - "wait for me, dear"
- Anya ’27 - "what I carry up the subway stairs"
- Briana ’26 - "MARY"
- Cece ’27 - "Self Batrachology"
- Cece ’27 - "The Ears"
- Danya ’26 - "New Year"
- Devin ’27 - "Woman of the Fairies"
- Eli ’26 - "The Painter's Whisper"
- Isabella ’27 - "I Wish Life"
- Isabella ’27 - "Libertas"
- Julia ’27 - "Clean"
- Max ’28 - "Maple Tree"
- Nia ’27 - "A Regular Occurence"
- Piper ’28 - "The Last Goodbye"
- Sam ’28 - "Distant Innocence"
- Suzuran ’26 - "An Ars Poetica"
- Tyler ’26 - "The Gravity of Almost"
Honorable Mention - Portfolio (Writing)
- Delilah ’26 - "My Herbarium"
Honorable Mention - Portfolio (Art)
- Bella ’26