VSA Future Students Earn Remarkable 30 Writing Awards in 2024 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards VSA writing students take home a remarkable 30 awards in the 101st annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards VSA Future is thrilled to announce that VSA writing students took home a remarkable 30 awards in the 101st annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is the longest-running national competition that recognizes and supports the creative endeavors of teens across the United States. 2024 VSA winners include 7 Gold Keys, 10 Silver Keys, and 13 Honorable Mentions. Our seventeen students won in a wide range of genres, including Poetry, Humor, Short Story, Critical Essay, Flash Fiction, Journalism, Science Fiction, and Personal Essay & Memoir. VSA students competed in a variety of Scholastic regions, including New Jersey, New York, California, Utah, North Carolina, Canada, and more. Congratulations to all of our award-winning students, who join the 26 Scholastic winners VSA celebrated in the 2021–23 Scholastic awards! Our 56 Scholastic award winners join the ranks of the accomplished alumni of the long-running program, including filmmaker Ken Burns and writer Joyce Carol Oates. Students 13 and older can submit original work across 18 award categories in writing and art. Award selections are based upon originality, skill, and the emergence of personal vision or voice and without knowledge of the student’s name, gender, age, ethnicity, or hometown. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students across the United States submit their artwork and writing to the competition for consideration. In recent years, the competition has received over 330,000 submissions annually from students in all 50 states, awarding Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention awards to outstanding student submissions. Many of the winning pieces were shaped in VSA’s Reading & Writing classes, in which students develop strong essays that champion their original ideas and voice. Our classes foster critical thinking skills paired with comprehensive reading comprehension and grammar practice to equip students with a holistic and well-rounded grasp on English language arts. With a dynamic curriculum that highlights work by classic and contemporary essay writers, VSA Reading & Writing classes gives students creative role models for their own self-expression. Interested in learning more about how VSA can help your student succeed as a writer and thinker and gain recognition for their skill and talent? You can find information about our English, Reading & Writing classes and our Summer Evening Vocabulary & Reading Comprehension classes on our website at www.vsafuture.com or call us at 973-951-9600. Here is the full list of VSA accolades from the 2024 winners:A. Z. (8th grade), 2 Gold Keys in Critical Essay and 2 Silver Keys in Critical EssayXinyi L. (9th grade), Gold Key in Science Fiction & FantasyRichard Da (9th grade), Gold Key in Personal Essay & MemoirA. L. (11th grade), Gold Key in Short Story and 2 Honorable Mentions in Short StoryC. L. (8th grade), Gold Key in Personal Essay & Memoir, Honorable Mention in Personal Essay & Memoir, and Honorable Mention in Flash FictionE. Fu (8th grade), Silver Key in Short Story, Silver Key in Critical Essay, and Silver Key in Personal Essay & MemoirS. Ji (8th grade), Silver Key in Critical Essay and Honorable Mention in Critical EssayJeffrey Xiong (8th grade), Silver Key in HumorC. F. (8th grade), Silver Key in Short Story, Honorable Mention in Flash Fiction, and Honorable Mention in Short StoryJerry Jiang (9th grade), Silver Key in JournalismS. T. (10th grade), Silver Key in Poetry and Honorable Mention in Flash FictionJ. Xu (9th grade), Honorable Mention in PoetryNicholas Li (9th grade), Honorable Mention in Short StoryEmma Z. (8th grade), Honorable Mention in PoetryE. H. (11th grade), Honorable Mention in Critical EssayAshley S. (10th grade), Honorable Mention in Critical EssayE.X. (9th grade), Gold Key
