MSA Students Capture 153 Mississippi Scholastic Writing Awards

Each year, students at Mississippi School of the Arts, as well as other schools across the state and nation, participate in the Scholastic Art and Writing competition. Thousands of submissions are juried state-by-state to see which will advance to the national level. Mississippi School of the Arts is no stranger to Scholastics, having received state and national awards since the inception of the Literary Arts program at the award-winning, public residential high school.

For the 2024-2025 school year, Literary Art students accounted for 149 total writing awards: Honorable Mention, Silver Key, Gold Key and a prestigious American Voices Nomination. The total number of awards given to students statewide accounts for less than half of the submitted entries to the competition.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The Awards give students opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarships. In 2024, more than 110,000 teens across the United States and Canada entered more than 340,000 original works in 28 different categories of art and writing.

Award winners will be recognized at the Scholastic Writing Regional Awards Ceremony on April 6, 2025, at the Eudora Welty House and Gardens in Jackson, Mississippi. Gold Key winners will continue to compete at the national level.

Literary Arts Discipline

Dr. Nadia Alexis, Instructor

Academic English Department

Tobie Lambert, Instructor

Self-Submission