The Mississippi School of the Arts congratulates junior and senior literary artists, including three theatre students, for their awarded achievements in the 2019 Scholastic Writing Competition.
The works of these talented young artists receiving American Voices Nomination, Gold Key, Silver Key and Honorable Mention will be recognized at an awards ceremony on April 14 at the Eudora Welty House in Jackson. This year, MSA students received one American Voices nomination, 10 Gold Keys, 29 Silver Keys and 27 Honorable Mention awards.
Janey Aron, a senior from Mathiston, received two Silver Keys.
Students from all over Mississippi competed in the Mississippi Regional Competition, submitting works in flash fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, and more. The submissions are juried by artists in the field.
Among the thousands of writings submitted, only a small percentage will go to the national level. Jurors look for works that exemplify the awards’ core values: originality, technical skill and the emergence of personal voice or vision. American Voices and Gold Key recipients will advance to the national competition.
The Mississippi School of the Arts is an 11th- and 12th-grade visual and performing arts residential, public high school located on the historic Whitworth College campus in Brookhaven. Students not only meet and exceed the traditional Mississippi high school curriculum, they receive special instruction in visual arts, vocal music, dance, literary arts, filmmaking/media arts and theatre.
Students interested in MSA apply by Feb.1 of their sophomore year. The school holds the second-highest ACT average in the state and the graduating class of 2018, 65 seniors, received $10.8 million in college scholarships.
