MSA Students Capture 171 Mississippi Scholastic Writing Awards 2025-2026

2026 MSA Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

For over 100 years, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized the vision, ingenuity, and talent of our nation’s youth, and provided opportunities for creative teens to be celebrated.

Each year, students at the Mississippi School of the Arts (MSA), 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 schools inception.

For the 2025-2026 school year, Literary Arts, Visual Arts and Media Arts students at MSA received 171 total awards including: Honorable Mention, Silver Key, Gold Key and a prestigious American Visions Nomination. Gold Key and American Visions awards will advance to the national competition.

The awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world. Students receive opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarship.

Gold Key and American Visions winning art will be on display at The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, MS February 14 – May 10, 2026.

Writing award winners will be recognized at a awards ceremony at the Eudora Welty House in the Spring.

MSA students received 171 awards including:

1 prestigious American Visions Award

27 Gold Keys

51 Silver Keys

92 Honorable Mentions

Literary Arts Discipline

Dr. Nadia Alexis, Instructor

Academic English Department

Tobie Lambert, Instructor

Self-Submission