Declan Riley, an eighth grader at Travis Ranch School, recently earned a National Medal in the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for his “Humor” submission titled, “Happy Birthday?”
Nearly 320,000 works of art and writing were submitted by secondary students this year. Receiving a National Medal places Declan within the top one percent of all submissions!
The awards are sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and Scholastic, Inc. Past winners include Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Robert Redford, Lena Dunham and Ken Burns.
Declan also won three regional awards: two Gold Keys for both a dramatic script and the aforementioned story, “Happy Birthday?”, and a Silver Key for a piece of flash fiction.
Declan will be traveling to Carnegie Hall in New York City on Thursday, June 2, to accept his gold medal award.
Click here (PDF) for more information. Congrats Declan!
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