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Send us a textWitness the magic when young art meets experience, as I recount my day as a juror for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Imagine the thrill of seeing the world through the eyes of 7th to 12th graders, each piece a testament to raw talent and unfiltered creativity. From my own daughter's gold key victory to the struggles art educators face with limited resources, this episode paints a vivid picture of the importance of nurturing creativity in our schools and communities.As I reflect on this profound experience, I share insights into my own artistic journey and the joy of opening a space where creativity flourishes. Listen as I discuss the vibrant community that forms around art, bridging social gaps and sparking connections. From young artists to seasoned creators, everyone deserves a place to express themselves, and I'm committed to making that a reality. Tune in to hear how art serves as a powerful tool for self-expression and camaraderie, offering a fulfilling outlet that transcends age and backgrounds.Support the showCatch the doodles on YouTubeMy socials:Sign up for my monthly newsletterPortfolio website: Brewtifully.comInstagram: /BrewtifullyFacebook: /brewtifullyTikTok: GettingSmallwithGrandmaLinkedIn: Tracy Dawn Brewer

Ep.222 José Parlá (b.1973) creates paintings and multidisciplinary works based on his interest in hybrid forms of abstraction. He draws inspiration from various mediums including music, calligraphy, dance, and the decay of urban architecture and advertisements. His works poetically challenge ideas about language, politics, identity, and how we define places and spaces. Parlá's relationship with mark-making is physical and textural, incorporating the body's gestures into a painterly stream of consciousness composed of areas of addition, erasure, and layering that challenge the status quo of visual culture. Parlá was born to Cuban parents in Miami, Florida, and lives and works out of Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia; the New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida; and Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida. Solo exhibitions of Parlá's work have been organized at institutions such as The Bronx Museum, New York (2022); Gana Art Center, Seoul (2022); Istanbul'74, Istanbul (2019); Hong Kong Contemporary Art (HOCA) Foundation, Hong Kong (2019); Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2018); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2017); Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York (2017); Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas (2016); High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2015); amongst others. Public arts projects include permanent large-scale commissions including Far Rockaway Writer's Library, a collaboration between Snøhetta and Parlá, New York (2023); University of Texas, Austin (2018); ONE World Trade Center, New York (2015); A collaboration with Snøhetta, Hunt Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh (2013); Barclays Center, New York (2012); Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York (2012); Concord City Place, Toronto (2010). Select group exhibitions and biennials include The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2023); Brooklyn Abstraction, Four Artists, Four Walls, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2022); Reflections, Gana Art, Seoul (2019); Glasstress, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Venice (2019); Beyond the Streets, New York (2019); Yasiin bey: Negus, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019); Victors for Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (2017); Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2016); Seeing, Saying, Images and Words, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, North Carolina (2016); Wrinkles of the City: Havana Cuba: JR & José Parlá, the Havana Biennial, Havana (2012); amongst others. Parlá's work is in several public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; The British Museum, London; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; El Espacio, Miami; POLA Museum of Art, Japan; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, NY; The Neuberger Museum of Art, New York; and The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana. Parlá serves on the board of National YoungArts Foundation. Parlá has received numerous awards, including the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Alumni Achivement Award (2024) Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2023), the Hirshhorn Museum Artist x Artist honoree (Hank Willis Thomas x José Parlá) (2023), National Young Arts Foundation Award (2022), Americans for the Arts National Art Award (2022), Americans for the Arts Public Art Network (2019), Miami Dade College Alumni Hall of Fame Award inductee (2016), Brooklyn Arts Council honoree (2014), Institute of Contemporary Arts(ICA) London – Grand Prize (2013), Heartland Film Festival - Best Documentary Short and Best U.S. Premiere for Wrinkles of the City, Havana (2013) Scholastic Art Award. Photographer James Chororos

Full transcription available at http://heartsofgoldpodcast.com/ Jackie shares her inspiring journey of earning the Girl Scout Gold Award through her project titled "Single-Use Less Plastic." She discusses her advocacy against single-use plastic pollution, highlighting the importance of public policy, education, and art in driving change. Jackie reflects on how the COVID-19 lockdown prompted her to notice the overwhelming amount of plastic waste generated by her family, leading her to participate in the Plastic Free July challenge. She created an art curriculum inspired by artist Aurora Robson, teaching students to make collages from plastic debris. Jackie also founded her school's environmental club, where she organized assemblies and engaged with local officials to promote legislation against plastic straws. Throughout the episode, Jackie shares the challenges she faced during the project, including the transition to virtual learning, and the valuable lessons she learned about self-expression and advocacy. She discusses her current endeavors as an art and design major at the University of Michigan, where she has launched her clothing brand, Vinny, which focuses on environmental themes and donates a portion of profits to conservation efforts. Listeners will gain insights into the Gold Award process, the importance of creating a website for projects, and the impact of Girl Scout experiences on personal growth. Jackie encourages future Gold Award candidates to pursue their passions and reach out to others for support. More About Jacqueline: Jacqueline Vinson, 13 year Girl Scout earned her Gold Award through raising awareness of the environmental hazards of single use plastic and how we can take environmental action in our communities. Through her extensive work interviewing New York Council Members and artists, designing a curriculum and petitioning, she received the Girl Scouts of Greater New York Carmen Dubroc Scholarship in 2023. Jackie's project made a difference in her community by raising awareness of Bill A90A, a law, banning plastic straws in NYC restaurants. She also successfully petitioned to end the use of plastic cutlery and plates in her school cafeteria. As a high school senior, her environmental art won a Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Key for her portfolio, “Single-Use Less Plastics”. She now studies Art and Design at the University of Michigan where she has continued to make environmental art. This summer, She started her own naturalist streetwear company, “VinNy”, selling shirts with her captivating geometric designs of nature and birds. VinNY's aim is to connect urban life to the natural world, and 10% of the profits go to urban environmental conservation organizations including the NYC Bird Alliance.   https://singleuselessplastic.com https://www.vinnylabel.com   Key Takeaways from this episode: Advocacy against single-use plastics through art and education. The importance of community engagement and public policy. Personal growth and self-expression through creative projects.

I thoroughly enjoyed this wide-spanning conversation with Jessica Elefante. We cover so many topics related to parenting in a digital world. This is one of my favorite conversations so far. Jessica Elefante is an artist, an author, a mother and co-chair for Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA).  Every mother (and parent) will relate to this very raw conversation where we dig into screen use, social media and all things parenting in a digital world. About Jessica Elefante She is the author of Raising Hell, Living Well: Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (Ballantine, 2023) which she coined a How-Come (not a How-To). Jessica's writing works to open people's eyes on the topics of technology, capitalism, influence, and motherhood and has appeared in The Guardian, Literary Hub, Huffington Post, Bustle, Simplify Magazine, the Dispatch, Whalebone Magazine and more. As the founder of acclaimed Folk Rebellion and a critic of today's culture, Elefante's award-winning works shine a light on the untenability of our times and have been featured by Vogue, The Atlantic, Inc., Los Angeles Times, The Observer, Writer's Digest, Vice, Paper Mag, Wired, and elsewhere. Her short documentary “What Day Is It?” was awarded semi-finalist of Flickers RIIFF and an Official Selection of Beverly Hills Film Festival and New York Shorts Film Festival, for its portrayal of a mother's perspective on the ever-shifting emotional and mental states of lockdown. In her previous life as a brand strategist, she was recognized on Brand Innovators “40 under 40” list for winning her clients industry recognition including Webby, Edison, and AdAge awards. Jess has proudly been a guest lecturer at Columbia Business School and New York University sharing her expertise in entrepreneurship and branding. Currently she's using her experience in tech and media as a co-chair for Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA). For her work as an artist and writer she's honored to be a judge for the 2024 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She's influenced by the social, cultural, and technological circumstances of her life, but mostly, of her desire to lead a colorful one. Raised in upstate New York, she now lives in Brooklyn with her family. She is no longer bullshitting.

Mark interviews bestselling writer, editor, and writing instructor, Wulf Moon, who won the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards at the age of fifteen, and followed that with winning the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Contest, and Writers of the Future. He leads the Wulf Pack Writers group and is the author of The Illustrated Super Secrets of Writing and How to Write a Howling Good Story.  Prior to the interview, Mark reads comments from previous episodes, shares a personal update, and then says a word about this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by the Stark Publishing book How to Write a Howling Good Story by Wulf Moon. The book is 25% off at the Smashwords store until the end of Jan 2024. Patrons of the Stark Reflections Podcast can get the book for 75% off until the end of Feb 2024. In their conversation Mark and Moon talk about: How Wulf Moon might not have been the name that he was born with and how the name "Moon" which he has been called most of his life came from his Ojibwe grandmother Moonbeam Road, a local road his father named after him when he was growing up Not having a father who was supportive of his writing, and even having to run away from home when he was younger Finding an important positive voice as a youngster in a teacher The additional lengths this one teacher went to support and encourage Moon in his writing Winning the Scholastic Art and Writing Award at the age of 15, among so many other awards that this teacher helped him find Getting beat up so often in high school that the only thing he could do was look down as he walked in the hallways - but how he found his power in writing The importance of finding a way to be who you are and to not allow others to repress you from that Starting up Wulf Moon's Super Secrets Writing Workshop right after winning Writers of the Future - and offering all this support to other writers for free The repeated authors who have gone through Moon's teachings and then ended up winning Writers of the Future The Wulf Pack Writers group that Moon manages Following the concept of "how can I help you with what I know" How writers don't understand proper Manuscript Format The high ranking sales that HOW TO WRITE A HOWLING GOOD STORY has hit since its release in November 2023 Moon's concept of Heart's Desire as the most important principle in a story Caring that happens in the heart of the reader, which can create the Reader/Hero bond Getting to a point in his life that was so low that he took risks and was burning bridges behind him and not writing for 10 years Realizing that he couldn't be happy and couldn't be fulfilled not being a writer Moon's experience meeting Dean Wesley Smith at the Nebula Awards in Eugene Oregon The importance of having both the fundamenals of writing and the belief in yourself The mantra "belief determins reality" that Moon instructs his students to write down The dedication in Moon's HOW TO WRITE A HOWLING GOOD STORY Meeting other people "like me" at writer conferences, etc and the incredible value that can bring Advice Moon would offer to newer writers And more... After the interview, Mark reflects on the importance of not denying who you are and not denying the things that bring you pleasure. He also reflects on the concept of finding your people, your Tribe, and the positive impact we can have on one another if we just take the time to listen, to reach out, to others.   Links of Interest: Wulf Moon's Website How to Write a Howling Good Story Smashwords link Patron Coupon for 75% off EP 340 - Personality, Passion, Presentation, and Persistence with Todd Fahnestock Mark's YouTube Channel Buy Mark a Coffee Patreon for Stark Reflections Best Book Ever Podcast Lovers Moon Podcast The Relaxed Author Buy eBook Direct Buy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for Authors An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores Wide for the Win Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story) A Canadian Werewolf in New York Stowe Away (Novella) Fear and Longing in Los Angeles Fright Nights, Big City Lover's Moon Hex and the City The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard   Wulf Moon is a bestselling writer, editor, and writing instructor. At fifteen, Moon won the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and followed that with winning the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Contest, and Writers of the Future. He leads the Wulf Pack Writers group. He's won both Best Author and Best Writers Workshop four years running in the Critters Readers' Choice Awards, and is the author of The Illustrated Super Secrets of Writing and How to Write a Howling Good Story. www.thesupersecrets.com     The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Join Emma and Daisy as they explore the application process for upcoming (U.S. based*) writing competitions! Listen to first hand advice and experiences from Bennington, YoungArts, and Scholastic Winners ad as•ter ep•i•sode 22 /ˌad ˈa-str ep ˌ-sōd 'twen-ty /to͞o/ /n. Mosaic of tips and reflections from past Bennington Young Writers Awards, YoungArts, and Scholastic winners Joanna - Meaningful form (hermit poems!) (as a reformed STEM + Elon Musk stan) Emily - “Someone should be able to pick up your piece off the ground and know that it's yours”+ send what you love! Kate - You learn a lot from the process of applying + last-minute submitting panic + Covid YoungArts experience David - Be true to your craft and style Emma - Slightly stealing mini jam from scholarship breakfast in NYC Daisy - Contests or not, it's all about the craft notable moments: 0:25 - Meet Daisy! 2:12 - Bennington Young Writers Awards (international) 2:57 - Joanna Liu (2022-2023 Bennington YWA Winner in Creative Nonfiction) 9:50 - YoungArts Competition (US) 12:16 - Emily Pickering (2023 YoungArts Finalist in Creative Nonfiction) 15:46 - Kate Choi (2021 YoungArts Finalist in Play) 20:40 - David Chen (2022 YoungArts Merit Winner in Creative Nonfiction, 2023 Honorable Mention Winner in Creative Nonfiction) 26:28 - Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (US) 28:10 - Emma Zhang (2022 Scholastic Best in Grade and Gold Medal in Personal Essay & Memoir) 31:10 - Other contests 34:03 - Outro links Bennington Young Writers Awards (poetry, fiction, nonfiction | Nov 1) Joanna Liu, “Diagnosis of Familial, Lateral Curvatures” Ran Zhao, “How Did Li Bai Die?” (hermit crab poem) YoungArts Competition (creative nonfiction, novel, play or script, poetry, short story, spoken word | Oct 13) Emily Pickering, “Speak” (p. 71) Kate Choi, “All's in the Past Now” (p. 28) David Chen, “Two-Faced” (p. 35) David Chen, "Self" (p. 75)  Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (critical essay, dramatic script, flash fiction, journalism, humor, novel, personal essay & memoir, poetry, science fiction & fantasy, short story, writing portfolio for seniors | varies) *Some other contests* Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest Leonard L. Milberg '53 High School Poetry Prize The Princeton Ten-Minute Play Contest Columbia College Chicago Young Authors Writing Competition The Adroit Prizes for Poetry and Prose *P2 will include international comps + advice on finding writing opps!

Wulf Moon wrote his first science fiction story when he was fifteen. It won the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards–the same contest that first discovered Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter S. Beagle, and a host of iconic names in the arts. It became his first professional sale in Science World. Moon has won over forty awards in writing and thirty in public speaking. A sample of these include: Star Trek Strange New Worlds Contest; Critters Readers' Choice Awards for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story of 2018, of 2019, of 2020; Best Author of 2019, of 2020, of 2021; Best Positive Future Story of 2021; Best Writers' Workshop of 2019, of 2020, of 2021; Nora Roberts Novella Contest; and the Writers of the Future Contest, Vol. 35. Moon's stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Writers of the Future, Best of Deep Magic Anthology Two, Future Science Fiction Digest, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2, Best of Third Flatiron, Galaxy's Edge, and DreamForge magazine. Wulf Moon is also a professional voice-over actor and has produced works for Hugo Award winners and bestselling authors like Mike Resnick, Jeff Wheeler, and Will McIntosh. Moon is podcast director at Future Science Fiction Digest. His award-winning SUPER SECRETS Online Resource and Writing Workshop has had over 800,000 views. These Secrets have been attributed by a multitude of writers as the reason they obtained their first professional sales, and wins in national and international writing contests. Two SUPER SECRETS writing books will be published this winter by editor Mark Leslie Lefebvre through Stark Publishing Solutions. Learn more at https://bit.ly/TheSuperSecrets Explore the works of Wulf Moon by visiting driftweave.com or by checking out his Amazon author page at: amazon.com/author/wulfmoon.

Wulf Moon wrote his first science fiction story when he was fifteen. It won the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards–the same contest that first discovered Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter S. Beagle, and a host of iconic names in the arts. It became his first professional sale in Science World. Moon has won over forty awards in writing and thirty in public speaking. A sample of these include: Star Trek Strange New Worlds Contest; Critters Readers' Choice Awards for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story of 2018, of 2019, of 2020; Best Author of 2019, of 2020, of 2021; Best Positive Future Story of 2021; Best Writers' Workshop of 2019, of 2020, of 2021; Nora Roberts Novella Contest; and the Writers of the Future Contest, Vol. 35. Moon's stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Writers of the Future, Best of Deep Magic Anthology Two, Future Science Fiction Digest, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2, Best of Third Flatiron, Galaxy's Edge, and DreamForge magazine. Wulf Moon is also a professional voice-over actor and has produced works for Hugo Award winners and bestselling authors like Mike Resnick, Jeff Wheeler, and Will McIntosh. Moon is podcast director at Future Science Fiction Digest. His award-winning SUPER SECRETS Online Resource and Writing Workshop has had over 800,000 views. These Secrets have been attributed by a multitude of writers as the reason they obtained their first professional sales, and wins in national and international writing contests. Two SUPER SECRETS writing books will be published this winter by editor Mark Leslie Lefebvre through Stark Publishing Solutions. Learn more at https://bit.ly/TheSuperSecrets Explore the works of Wulf Moon by visiting driftweave.com or by checking out his Amazon author page at: amazon.com/author/wulfmoon.

In 1923, Scholastic founder and CEO Maurice R. Robinson deemed that artistic students should be celebrated every bit as much as their athletic peers. Robinson created the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards to recognize talented young artists and writers from across the United States. The program gained fame through the students who won its awards, many of whom went onto groundbreaking careers in art, fashion, film, and literature. They include Bernard Malamud, Ezra Jack Keats, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Cy Twombly, Kay WalkingStick, Robert Redford, Stephen King, Ken Burns, Yolanda Wisher, Zac Posen, Lena Dunham, and Amanda Gorman. A century after Robinson laid out his vision, the program is still going strong. The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, which administers the program, recently published A Thousand Familiar Faces: 100 Years of Teen Voices. The new anthology offers a look at life through young people's eyes, whether they're grappling with World War I, the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, or the September 11 attacks. You'll find memoirs, poems, and essays about teenage life, family, identity, grief, racism, and immigration. In this episode, Hannah Jones, Deimosa Webber-Bey, and Henry Trinder join host Suzanne McCabe to talk about A Thousand Familiar Faces. Hannah, who edited the anthology, is also an author. She won a Scholastic Award, herself, in 2004. Deimosa and Henry combed through the Scholastic archives to find the best of the best of student writing from the past 100 years. Deimosa is the director of Information Services & Cultural Insight at Scholastic, and Henry recently earned a master's degree in library science from Pratt Institute. → Resources A Thousand Familiar Faces: A new anthology of award-winning teen writing features works dating back to the 1920s. You can download it for free here. Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: Administered by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the awards have fostered creativity among young people since 1923. → Highlights Hannah Jones, editor, A Thousand Familiar Faces “It was [surprising] how vital and important and immediate and fresh the voices from the '20s and '30s and '40s felt.” “I want every single one of these writers to just have their moment of being read by someone new.” Henry Trinder, researcher, A Thousand Familiar Faces “Poetry was a more dominant form as a means for expression for the teenagers in the '20s and '30s. As that went on, short stories became more popular, and now, it seems, essays have become much more popular.” “It was comforting to read these stories and see myself in them.” Deimosa Webber-Bey, researcher, A Thousand Familiar Faces “It was very satisfying to . . . come away that much richer in knowledge about Scholastic history, about teenagers, about the 20th century.” → Special Thanks Producer: Maxine Osa Sound engineer: Daniel Jordan Music composer: Lucas Elliot Eberl → Coming Soon Pride Month: Author Simon James Green Talks About Gay Club!

In this episode of the podcast, Elisabeth speaks with Jovanny Hernandez Caballero, a photographer and photojournalist from the south side of Milwaukee. Hernandez Caballero is an Art and Design major with an emphasis in Photography and Imaging at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, currently completing his BFA. As the son of immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico, Jovanny's work explores themes of his cultural heritage and identity. Through his art practice, he documents the rich and positive stories of life in his community on Milwaukee's South Side, and conducts a kind of “reverse anthropology” to explore and document his own roots and his family in his family's native land of Oaxaca, Mexico. In the conversation, they cover his early influences, including the extensive mural artworks of Milwaukee, that speak to his identity and culture, as well as the power of attending May Day marches in Milwaukee on inspiring his interest in design. He reflects on the early transformative opportunity to participate in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards at the Milwaukee Art Museum. This year, Hernandez Caballero served as a judge in the Milwaukee branch of the competition. He reflects, too, on the influence of growing up and coming into his own art practice within the tight knit creative community of Milwaukee, where artists ban together to support one another, and organizations like the Walkers Point Center for the Art help empower artists by connecting them with opportunities and mentorship. A focus on community and identity is at the heart of Hernandez Caballero's art work, and also drives the work that he does in photojournalism: as a photojournalist for the Journal Sentinel, he focuses on telling positive community stories about, in particular, Milwaukee's South Side. From his perspective, photography has an “innate truth” and often is regarded as proof or a cultural remnant. This has influenced his both photojournalistic and art practices — in documenting his family in Oaxaca, Mexico, and in Milwaukee, to make sure he is capturing the nuance, beauty and positivity in underrepresented communities that are often his subjects. You can follow Jovanny's work on Instagram at @Jovanny.11. Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Milwaukee Murals Oaxaca, Mexico Day of the Kings Grilled Cheese Grant UWM BFA Thesis Show Creating Milwaukee Walkers Point Center for the Arts

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Without a doubt the most important episode of Playwright's Spotlight to date. If in the past you've never made it through an episode in it's entirety, this is the one to sit through until the end. A story of diligence, perseverance, over coming adversity, Faye Widjaja tells the story of her high school drama club staging a production when it seemed the universe was against them. We discuss breaking down and writing a performance art piece, the timing and structure of a play set in real time, rehearsing and making the most out of the worst situations, and celebrating the old adage "necessity breeds creativity." Faye's is a story of inspiration and motivation fighting against all odds. I hope this episode makes you all remember why we fell in love with theatre in the first place and what keeps drawing us back. Enjoy!!!Faye Widjaja is a writer, composer, director, designer, actress, and senior at Mission San Jose High School as well as the president of the school's student-run theatre program. Her play "A Lost Soul's Guide to Being Not Alive" received an Honorable Mention from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and her most recent piece "A Minor Inconvenience" received gold in the Student Written One-Act category at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival in Sacramento, California.To view the video format of this episode, visit the link below -https://youtu.be/zeWhuUfhCRULinks to sites and resources mentioned in this episode - New Play Exchange -https://newplayexchange.org/Lenaea High School Theatre Festival -Lenaea.orgStanding Ovation Grant -https://broadwaylicensing.com/broadway-licensing-announces-standing-ovation-grant-for-educational-theater-programs/Harris Center for the Performing Arts -https://www.harriscenter.netUniversal Performers -https://www.msjpups.orgHollywood Fringe -https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/Support Theatre for Mission San Jose -https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-theatre-at-mission-san-jose?qid=508cd5a3222f056e8d829d9679b9168aScholastic Art and Writing Awards -https://www.artandwriting.orgContact and Socials for Universal Performers -https://www.facebook.com/groups/30332416579/Websites and socials for James Elden, Punk Monkey Productions and Playwright's SpotlightPunk Monkey Productions - www.punkmonkeyproductions.comPLAY Noir -www.playnoir.comPLAY Noir Anthology –www.punkmonkeyproductions.com/contact.htmlJames Elden -Twitter - @jameseldensauerIG - @alakardrakeFB - fb.com/jameseldensauerPunk Monkey Productions and PLAY Noir - Twitter - @punkmonkeyprods                  - @playnoirla IG - @punkmonkeyprods       - @playnoir_la FB - fb.com/playnoir        - fb.com/punkmonkeyproductionsPlaywright's Spotlight -Twitter - @wrightlightpod IG - @playwrights_spotlightPlaywriting services through Los Angeles Collegiate Playwrights Festivalwww.losangelescollegiateplaywrightsfestival.com/services.htmlSupport the show

As you gaze at the many works in the Scholastic Art Awards exhibit, you realize that these students have poured all they have into each piece.

So excited. We are joined by another good friend of mine, Anni Los Angeles Native Anni, previously known as Annika Grace, is a poet, singer/songwriter and creator of a house concert series in Venice Beach called ‘Saturdays at Seven'. This new era of music explores the more vulnerable, authentic and raw side of her artist project while incorporating her poetry into her music more as well. Her newest single ‘Guest List' is out now. Her music has been heard in MTV's Real World Atlanta and the HBO max show 12 Dates of Christmas. Anni's poetry has won six silver keys in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She has been awarded First Place Gold Medalist for the World Poetry Movement's Best Poets and Poems and Gold Medalist in the International Who's Who in poetry contest. Her first poetry book 'Remedies' comes out this year exploring the thoughts of grief, love, and acceptance and how in a way, words and music can heal." Anni shares the inspiration behind her newest release ‘Guest List,' and also her other projects ‘Saturdays at Seven' and book of poems. -- Meet Annika aka Anni Songwriting at 7 years old New Release “Guest List” House Series called Saturdays at Seven Book of Poems ‘Remedies' coming soon! ‘Failure is the key to success' ‘Creating Art that Lasts' - Check out his latest work ‘Guest List' available everywhere! https://open.spotify.com/album/6RFbIIDzTbgsTZ5OG3VpF6?si=XCE8k0fDRaWYEZsA24DrEg - Use our code for 30% off your first year's membership with DistroKid. http://distrokid.com/vip/thesetup. As always, when you distribute your music to DSPs with DistroKid, they never take a cut. You & your collaborators get 100% of the earnings. – If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 30 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews! -- For show notes, transcripts and past guests, please visit thesetupseries.com Want to meet our guests? Join our community (“Set Up Set List") at thesetupseries.com/community --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thesetupseries/message

SOREN LIT 2022- Glenis Redmond www.sorenlit.com SOREN LIT Editor: Melodie J. Rodgers, MFA Glenis Redmond is a performance poet, a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, and a Cave Canem alumni. In October of this year, Glenis was selected to be the City of Greenville's first poet laureate. She has authored six books of poetry: Backbone (Underground Epics,2000), Under the Sun (Main Street Rag, 2002), and What My Hand Say (Press 53, 2016), Listening Skin (Four Way Books), Three Harriets & Others (Finishing Line Press), and Praise Songs for Dave the Potter, Art by Jonathan Green, and Poetry by Glenis Redmond (University of Georgia Press). She is presently working on a seventh collection, Port Cities: Portals of the Second (Domestic) Middle Passage. In 2020 Glenis received the highest arts award in South Carolina, the Governor's Award and in 2022 she was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. Glenis was born on Shaw AFB in Sumter, South Carolina. She presently resides in Greenville, South Carolina. She was the founder of the Greenville Poetry Slam in the early 90's. She confesses she is Bi-Carolinian as she lived in Asheville, North Carolina for seventeen years and was a vital leader in the poetry scene in the 90's. During that time, she was a Southern Fried Slam champion of the individuals twice and ranked twice in the top ten at the National Slam. Glenis was awarded the WNC Best Poet through the Mountain Xpress so many times, she was placed in the Hall of Fame. Glenis is a North Carolina Literary Fellowship recipient and helped to create the first Writer-in-Residence program at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, North Carolina. She received her MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College while touring full-time as a poet and mother-of-twins, Amber, and Celeste Sherer. She is now a Gaga to three grandchildren Julian, age 7 and Paisley age 1 and newborn, Quinn. Glenis has spent almost three decades touring the country as a poet and teaching artist. She served as the Poet-in-Resident for the Peace Center in Greenville and the State Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ. As a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, for seventeen years, Glenis has created and facilitated poetry workshops for school districts across the country. Since 2014, she has served as the mentor poet for the National Student Poets Program through Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In the past she has prepared these exceptional youth poets to read at the Library of Congress, the Department of Education, and for First Lady Michelle Obama at The White House. Her poetry has been showcased on NPR and PBS and has been most recently published in Orion Magazine, storySouth and The New York Times, as well as numerous literary journals nationally and internationally. Glenis believes poetry is the mouth that speaks when all other mouths are silent. Website: www.glenisredmond.com Instagram: glenismakingpoetryreign Twitter: glenisredmond TikTok: RedwomanGlenis --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melodie-rodgers/message

Today's episode was recorded live on April 25th, 2022 over Zoom. We begin today with a short and sweet open mic before getting right to our headliners. First, Gabriel Carnick is an award winning Poet, Film Director, and Cinematographer. Her works have been published in Calliope Magazine as well as Scholastic Art and Writing multiple times. She has two manuscripts currently in competition, the latest being ‘A Cacophony of Silence'. Gabriel's film work concentrates on queer and social justice oriented stories and is available on Amazon and Youtube and you can find out more about her on IG at @GabrielCarnick and at her website GabrielCarnick.com. Then, is Kyle Sanders, he is a Kentucky native, a Chicago resident, and a National Treasure. He's an alum of iO Theater's School of Improv and a contributing writer for the Chicago Independent Radio Project, who also writes one two-line joke a day to keep some semblance of sanity. He has performed at other storytelling events such as Outspoken and Do Not Submit, and hopes to live long enough to be considered the "Fran Lebowitz of Chicago."

It's spring play time at our high schools. Don't miss these fantastic performances from our talented teen thespians! First up is Glencoe High School with their production of Xanadu. Complete with roller skates, disco balls, music, and a healthy dose of satire, Xanadu tells the story of the Greek Muse Clio risking everything when she falls for frustrated artist and southern California dude Sonny. Based in 1980, Sonny has given up on his dream of one day opening an artsy roller disco when he meets Clio and is inspired to make his dream a reality. Next is Century High School performing The Hello Girls, a story of America's first women soldiers in a musical inspired by history. These intrepid heroines served as bilingual telephone operators on the front lines, helping turn the tide of World War I. They then returned home to fight a decades-long battle for equality and recognition, paving the way for future generations. Then in April, Liberty High School presents SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical. Based on the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, the show reunites SpongeBob with his pet snail, Gary, best friend Patrick, neighbor Squidward, friend Sandy, boss Mr. Krabs, and more. Don't miss what promises to be a hilarious evening of fun with our cutest cubical undersea pal. Wrapping up the spring play series is Hilhi Theatre with their production of The Addams Family Musical. In an original story, daughter Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. And if that wasn't upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he's never done before - keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday's “normal” boyfriend and his parents. Please visit our website for dates, times, and ticket prices. Our Featured Students are from Mr. Shearing's Ceramics classes at Liberty High School who earned 7 Gold, 13 Silver, and 23 Honorable Mentions in the 2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. This is a state competition and their 7 Gold Medal winners will go on to national judging in New York! Way to go, students! You make us Proud to be HSD - and a little jealous of your artistic abilities! www.hsd.k12.or.us

Note: This is a short story I submitted for the Scholastic Art and Writing Award's based the real life thoughts and experience of a family member. I hope you enjoy it (I wrote it in 3 days!)

For over twenty years, Peter Kahn has been fortunate to employ the power of poetry to help give voice to those previously unheard. He has been a high school teacher at Oak Park/River Forest High School in Chicago since 1994 and has recently also taught at Roosevelt University. Peter was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2009 and 2017. He is a founding member of Malika's Kitchen and co-founder of the London Teenage Poetry Slam. Peter holds an MA in English Education from The Ohio State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. His 2020 book, Little Kings, is a book with interconnected poems and recurring characters that feels more like a book of poetic short stories that speak to one another. His new book, Respect The Mic, is an expansive, moving poetry anthology representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club.Natalie Rose Richardson was born in New York City to a long line of border-crossers and proud people of blended heritage. Natalie is a graduate of the University of Chicago (BA), and the Litowitz Creative Writing Program (in poetry) at Northwestern University. She is a current non-fiction MFA candidate at NYU. Her poetry and prose has appeared, or is forthcoming in: Poetry Magazine, Narrative, Orion Magazine, North American Review, The Adroit Journal, Brevity, The Cincinnati Review, Arts & Letters, Emergence Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and others, along with numerous anthologies, including The Golden Shovel Anthology. She has received awards, residencies or fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Foundation, Tin House, The Newberry Library, The Luminarts Foundation, Crab Orchard Review, Davis Projects for Peace, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the National Student Poets Program. Natalie's work has featured at BBC Radio London, Tedx, WBEZ Chicago, The British Royal Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Poetry Foundation. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee.Rich Robbins is a rapper, songwriter, producer, and educator. But more than anything, the Oak Park-born, Chicago-based artist is a world-builder. Rich's early years as a college student in Madison, Wisconsin's First Wave hip-hop scholarship program jumpstarted his artistry. He recorded wide-reaching tracks like “Dreams” feat. Mick Jenkins, along with records with Saba, Mother Nature, and more. He has performed at historic venues like the Apollo Theater in New York, and has done everything from music festivals, to working at Hot 97 as an intern, to teaching classrooms of high school students how to read and write poetry/songs. His work is an inward look at society's ills and creates spaces for listeners to explore. In short, Rich's work critiques the old while envisioning and manifesting the new. His latest releases are available on all streaming platforms.Poet t.l. sanders is a modern-day renaissance man who lives to build minds and loves to body build. He speaks French. He plays bass. He is a cage-fighting martial artist. He educates. Give him a stage, he articulates. Lend him an ear, he motivates. As a performance professional based in Kansas City, MO, Poet has performed at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (in the 2019 Lyric Opera of Kansas City production of Bizet's Pearl Fishers), at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and—serendipitously—he has performed at several venues located in Kansas City's Historic Jazz District, 18th and Vine: the American Jazz Museum, at the Gem Theater, and in the Blue Room (which is the setting of his book, kNew: The POETICscreenPLAY). As Paper Birch Landing Art Gallery's 2019 Poet in Residence Recipient, the Winner of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts' 2021 Artful Poetry contest, a 2021 Missouri Arts Council Featured Artist, Prairie Lands Writing Project Teacher-Consultant, a Missouri Writing Project Network Teacher-Consultant, a current curriculum director, and former elementary, middle, and high school English teacher turned filmmaker, Poet embraces the value of our shared stories. In 2021, Poet delivered The kNew-Born, an art house film that explores the human side of drug addiction.

Author of the children's series I SURVIVED, Lauren Tarshis comes on to talk about her entry into books, publishing, and her successful series. * Bookshop.org Episode Page* Storyworks* Jennifer Donnelly's Episode #203* Scholastic Art & Writing Awards* Amanda Gorman* Alan Gratz's Episodes (#21) (#214)

AMY DONG; 22-year-old Fulbright Scholar; Author of Twenty-One Years Young; Essays; World Traveler; #GenZ Life Coach Amy Dong is a twenty-two year old Fulbright Scholar and author whose writing career took off in 2014 when a personal essay she wrote received national acclaim from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. After a second award in 2016, a trip to Carnegie Hall, and a publication in Scholastic's Best Teen Writing of 2016, she went on to work as a magazine editor, curriculum designer, and freelance writer during her studies at New York University. Of her four years at NYU, Amy spent only two of them in New York. She spent the rest of the time studying abroad in Prague and Singapore, taking a gap semester to recover from a near-death experience, and traveling across 5 continents and 25 countries before the global COVID-19 pandemic brought her home to Houston again. To reflect on the unexpected realities of growing up, and to make sense of their most raw and intimate moments, Amy kept writing through it all. ​Following graduation, Amy served as a Fulbright Scholar teaching English in Taiwan. After completing her grant, she moved back to New York to pursue her interests in education, launch her young adult life coaching program The LIFE Project, and record her audiobook. CONTACT INFO: Website: https://amy-dong.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-dong-2154a6114/ https://www.instagram.com/amydong_writing/?hl=en BOOK; https://www.amy-dong.com/twenty-one-years-young Amazon Barnes and Noble

*Update: Since this recording, our featured poet is celebrating their fuller self as Amasa. The name used during the recording is a reflection of the time of the recording, but the work shared is still incredibly valid and timely.* In our closing episode of #PrideMonth - Our host Dwayne Lawson-Brown is joined by Arlington County Youth Poet Laureate, Amasa Maleski! Amasa Maleski is a writer, musician, and filmmaker attending high school in Arlington, VA. Their first spoken word performance was at an open mic for their middle school; since then, they have returned to this school to lead poetry workshops. In 2019, they qualified at the countywide level for the Optimist International Oratorical contest. They are an alumna of the University of Virginia's Young Writers' Workshop, and their poetry was recognized at the regional level of the 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Currently, they are serving as Arlington's Youth Poet Laureate of 2021. They was also a member of the 2020 DC Youth Slam Team. Dwayne and Amasa discuss identity, the joy of the DC Youth Poetry Slam Team, and the power of youth voices leading our present and future. Follow Amasa on Instagram: @Amasa.Maleski Follow Dwayne on various social media platforms: @Crochetkingpin This podcast is made possible with support of the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities.

On this episode, I'm honored to be joined by two young writers: Annabelle Healy and Mason Hagner. I thought it would be a blast to feature a couple of young writers who have gotten a great start as authors. I believe strongly that people of all ages should be writing, including kids and teens. My first guest is Annabelle Healy, who recently published her novel Far Below Human Eyes with Morgan James Publishing. Her novels have received multiple awards, including a gold medal from the national Scholastic Art and Writing competitions, which places her beside award alumni such as Stephen King and Truman Capote. She lives in Colorado with her parents and five little siblings. My second guest is Mason Hagner. At ten years old, he was a youth athlete who was working hard, but not getting the results he wanted. His dad had taught him to never give up and keep working at it. He decided to write a children's book about his experience of seeing things through, even when they are difficult. His children's book is titled Never Give Up No Matter What. I recorded these conversations separately, but both Annabelle and Mason talk about their process of writing, who encouraged them, and how they got it done. These conversations were a blast and I encourage you to grab both of their books. Annabelle Healy Far Below Human Eyes by Annabelle Healy https://annabellehealy.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/farbelowhumaneyes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annabelle.healy.writing Email: annawesome.healy@gmail.com Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20971044.Annabelle_Healy Mason Hagner Never Give Up No Matter What by Mason Hagner *** Are you looking for a community of enthusiastic, generous writers to help you build better habits and grow your writing business? Check out our Daily Writer Community.  Check out our Daily Writing Prompts, which will help you break through creative blocks, brainstorm new ideas, and get back into a state of flow. Writing prompts are a fantastic creative tool for creative writing, journaling, teaching, social media posts, podcasting, and more! Connect with Kent:  https://DailyWriterLife.com  Facebook: https://facebook.com/kent.sanders  Instagram: https://instagram.com/kentsanders  LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kent-sanders  Twitter: https://twitter.com/kentsanders  

SOREN LIT Podcast- Episode #3 Podcast Host & Founding Editor, Melodie J. Rodgers Aanika Eragam - Summer Issue 2021 Aanika Eragam is a rising senior at Milton High School in Milton, Georgia. She is the 2021 Atlanta Youth Poet Laureate, and her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Bennington College, and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has been published in Teen Vogue and Atlanta Magazine, among others. Outside of writing, she is passionate about history and politics. ON HOME (OR THE LACK THEREOF) by Aanika Eragam Here, I do not know who I am. An American, I proclaim, In the dry, carpet fiber syllables Falling like maple leaves from My accentless tongue. It's scary carrying culture in this country. I remember the time I wore a kurta To school and got teased mercilessly By incarnadine children who bottled Venom in their veins and ice in their eyes. Last month, another set of snake tongues yelled “Fuck Indians!” while my mother and I crossed the street. To them, our fear was funny. To them, our fear is always funny. I think it's funny how quickly this melting pot reached its boiling point. I think it's funny how quickly I learned to hide my dal rice and starve silently at lunch instead. Mother would hold up my Untouched lunchbox with shaking hands, fury Rolling off her in heat waves, ask me if We should leave, go back, her eyes pooling Over like the village well, fists grasping At my arms like chipped rocks. No, I would say, This is home. But the words still felt Stale on my tongue. There, Everyone tells me who to be. Grandmother balks at my hairy knees and potato-skin arms, Tells me to cover up, gives me a long-sleeved kurta and leggings suited for hibernation, As if the raging heat only applies to the boys, Who choke on dust and smog Untangling the village labyrinth. Girls in two braids even like rice crops invite me to play. They ask me what it's like in America. They laugh each time I attempt to speak in our mother tongue, and I realize to them, our language is more sacred than the air we breathe. I feel ashamed. I feel like a butcher flattening each syllable to make it palatable. I feel that there, too, I am a spectacle. There too, I only fit in when my mouth is shut. But these girls, they smile like me, and I want them to want me. The next day, Mother Packs up the tattered suitcase Smelling of jalebi and jaggery. I tell her I want to see the girls again and she says no, we are leaving soon anyway. I don't want to leave, I tell her, This is home. But the crows chuckle from The telephone line and the Thunder cracks out a roar. In the end, America tells me I'm Indian And India tells me I'm American And when I try to be both I Find out that I am neither, Too foreign to be native so I Must only be alive in the ocean-clad Expanse between two countries, My mother's womb My only home. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melodie-rodgers/message

  Sam Ebbert of St. Joseph High School Track is the WSJM Sports Berrien County Student Athlete of the Week for the week of May 23, 2021. At the Division 1 MITCA Team State Meet, Sam placed 3rd overall in the Pole Vault at 10'3”. She also placed 10th overall in the 300 Meter Hurdles with a time of :51.29 and 17th in the 100 Meter Hurdles with a time of :18.27. She also ran a leg for the 400 Meter Relay Team. Earlier in the season, she broke the school record in the Pole Vault with a mark of 10'10”. Sam is an academic letter winner at St. Joe and has won a Silver Key for her digital art at the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition. In the classroom, she carries a 4.0 grade point average. Sam is the daughter of Kris and Sean Ebbert of St. Joe. Another finalist for the week was Lauren Koch of St. Joe Track. Catch Phil McDonald's conversation with Sam below...      

When the 98th annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards winners were announced this spring, Carroll High School senior Alyvia Luong was one of sixteen students in the nation to receive this year's top honor. The award goes to eight writers and eight artists. Luong's nationally recognized photography portfolio, The Sin(ner) I Cannot Forgive is a series of self portraits that chronologically depicts the moments that make up a life-changing event for the artist and her journey towards healing. For a behind the scenes look at the young creative and her journey WBOI's Julia Meek invited Alyvia into the studio to discuss this portfolio and its message as well as her other award winning collection and what she hopes her future holds in store. Please note that this interview does include discussion about sexual assault that may be upsetting to some listeners.WBOI Artcentric is brought to you by WBOI's own Julia Meek and Ben Clemmer. Our theme music is “Me voy pal campo'' by KelsiCote. Our administrative assistants are Olivia Fletter and Keegan Lee. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

When Amanda Gorman took the inaugural stage on January 20th, she inspired the nation with her dazzling vision of hope. She also made poetry cool again. In this episode, eight young poets share their own hopes, inspiration, and poetry in a series of conversations with Bainbridge High School 9th grader, Evelyn Cantwell. Four of them are from Kitsap County, and four attend New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. While the two groups are geographically distant, they are bound by their mutual love of truth-seeking and the interplay of rhythm and words.  “THE GREAT CONJUNCTION” BY MADISON GRANDT “WOULDN’T IT BE NICE TO BE LIKE RAIN” BY CLAIRE ATKINSON “650” BY AUDREY NELSON “PINK” BY ALLIE PAULSON-HOUSER “FOR THE LITTLE GIRL WHO WANTED TO BELIEVE IN GOD, OR FOR FATHERS RAISING CHRISTIAN DAUGHTERS” BY SKYE BOWDON “WORD TO EVERYTHING I LOVE” BY OZ LESHAM “CONFINED” BY NEVE NAKTIN “SPEECH #9/FOR USE ON GOVERNORS AND STATE REPRESENTATIVES” BY ARTEMISIO ROMERO Y CARVER CLAIRE ATKINSON- “WOULDN’T IT BE NICE TO BE LIKE RAIN” Claire, a 16 year-old junior at CKHS, hopes to inspire and connect with others through her poems. In her humble opinion, written language is one of the best tools to connect with others and spark change. She hopes to pursue a career in the sciences, enjoys music, and loves reading.    AUDREY NELSON - “650” Audrey is a 17-year-old writer and optimist. She’s currently a senior at Bainbridge High School, with tentative plans to pursue urban studies and radio journalism in college. When she's not writing, she enjoys gathering entries for her Good Things List, playing amateur guitar, and hanging out with friends.   ALLIE PAULSON-HOUSER - “PINK” Allie is a 7th grader at Hyla Middle School. She likes to write poetry, songs, and books. Allie also plays basketball, water polo, and takes horse riding lessons. She loves a wild game of kick-the-can. And pickles. Allie loves pickles.    SKYE BOWDON - “FOR THE LITTLE GIRL WHO WANTED TO BELIEVE IN GOD, OR FOR FATHERS RAISING CHRISTIAN DAUGHTERS” Skye is a sophomore poet at New Mexico School for the Arts. Her work has been published in Dreams of Montezuma, An Anthology of Poetry and Prose New Mexico School for the Arts, Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine, and Ice lolly Review. Skye was a silver key medalist in the 2020 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Her work is inspired by her home in Santa Fe, her family, and the nature she grew up around.   OZ LESHAM - “WORD TO EVERYTHING I LOVE” Oz is a fifteen year old poet from Taos, New Mexico. He is a Sophomore in the Creative Writing program at New Mexico School for the Arts. Oz was a finalist for the 2020 Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate and is a national medalist in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. His work has been published in Cathartic Literary Magazine, Ice Lolly Review, Clear Skies Zine, and Dreams of Montezuma: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, among others. Oz was selected as a 2020 Miller Scholar for excellence in Creative Writing and is the recipient of the New Mexico State New York Life Award.   NEVE NAKTIN - “CONFINED” Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Neve has lived in both California and Pennsylvania. She eventually ended up back in Santa Fe where she attended 7th and 8th grade at Santa Fe Preparatory School. She was drawn to the creative writing program at New Mexico School for the Arts where she could deepen and expand her writing skills. Neve is currently a freshman.     ARTEMISIO ROMERO Y CARVER - “SPEECH #9/FOR USE ON GOVERNORS AND STATE REPRESENTATIVES” Artemisio is an artist, poet, and grassroots organizer based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. His writing has appeared in publications that include Rigorous Literary Journal, Inlandia Literary Journal, Tumbleweeds Magazine, and Magma Poetry. Artemisio is Santa Fe’s Youth Poet Laureate. He is a high school senior at the New Mexico School for the Arts. https://www.artemisioromeroycarver.com/   EVELYN CANTWELL Evelyn has grown up on Bainbridge Island, finding her favorite creative outlet at Bainbridge Performing Arts. She loves reading and listening to poetry and has enjoyed interviewing the incredibly talented poets featured on this episode. Evelyn is currently a freshman at Bainbridge High School.

“INHERITANCE is a collection of poems about my relationship to immigration, language, and womanhood, primarily explored through my relationship with my mom.” - Juliana Chang To celebrate Juliana's newest chapbook, we chat about her transnational identity, how her career priorities have evolved, tools for exploring and clarifying career interests, the difference between vain self-promotion versus expanding your ability to give to others, the poems that stood out the most to us from INHERITANCE, and how her love for words has been a throughline connecting her many dreams and passions. More about Juliana:Juliana Chang is a Taiwanese American poet, filmmaker, and incoming law student. She received a BA in Linguistics and a MA in Sociology from Stanford University in 2019. Juliana is the 2019 recipient of the Urmy/Hardy Poetry Prize, the 2017 recipient of the Wiley Birkhofer Poetry Prize, and a 2015 Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Medalist in Poetry. Her film and screenplay, Many Names, placed among the top 4 films in the national 2018 AT&T Create-a-thon Short Film competition. Her debut poetry chapbook, INHERITANCE, was the winner of the 2020 Vella Prize and is forthcoming from Paper Nautilus Press in 2021.She works as a Product Content Strategist in San Francisco.⟡ instagram: @julianawritespoems⟡ website: https://julianachang.com/poetry⟡ purchase INHERITANCE! Paper NautilusFollow us on:⟡ instagram: @bambooandglass⟡ links to various platforms: beacons.ai/bambooandglass⟡ website: www.bambooandglass.buzzsprout.com⟡ Da Eun: @daeunkm⟡ Sophia: @sophiasysunSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bambooandglass)

Julia is a 17-year-old youth filmmaker, visual artist and photographer based in Toronto. She is currently enrolled in the film program at the Etobicoke School of the Arts and has been a member of TIFF's youth programming team, the TIFF Next Wave Committee, for almost 3 years. With all of this experience, her work has been recognized and acclaimed in a variety of settings such as being a recipient of the Scholastic Art and Writing Silver Key, as well as having her work screened at the Philadelphia Youth Film Festival in 2019. Her work ventures into a variety of art forms and mediums, mainly exploring the stories of navigating western societies through the influences of race. Julia describes her work as aiming to attack western ethnocentrism, and shine a light on the duality between our own cultural identities. In this episode, Julia speaks about her journey finding her identity in a white-majority school, meeting amazing people on the TIFF Nextwave Committee and how everything has translated into her arts. We also chat about some light-hearted topics such as the iMovie experience and the blessing and curse that is online school and events. Hope you enjoy it!! Guest: Julia Yoo (@julia.yoo) Check out her art! - @juliayooart Hosted by: Amber Dhall (@amber_dhall, @beyond.the.film on Instagram) Jasma Zhou (@jasma_fusion_cuisine on Youtube and Instagram) Contact information: Email - offthechartspodcastt@gmail.com Instagram - @offthecharts_podcast

Kimmy Dang Contributing Writer Three students were awarded in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Competition on Jan. 28. Two were awarded the Gold Key and one an Honorable Mention. Sophomores Sadie Coalier and Nora Rohlfing were awarded the Gold... Read More ›

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Today, we're celebrating Scholastic's 100th anniversary with President, Chairman, and CEO Dick Robinson. Dick's father, Maurice R. Robinson, known affectionately to generations of staffers as Robbie, founded the company in 1920, a venture that started with a small weekly newspaper has since grown into the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books. Generations of readers have fond memories of attending a Scholastic Book Fair on an autumn afternoon, or checking off a list of books to purchase on one of the many Scholastic Book Club order forms that arrived in classrooms. Kids have grown-up with, and obsessed over Clifford the Big Red Dog, Goosebumps, The Baby-Sitters Club, Harry Potter, and Captain Underpants. Stories by Suzanne Collins, the late Walter Dean Myers, Raina Telgemeier, Pam Muñoz Ryan, and Kelly Yang, to name a few, still captivate young readers. Scholastic News and Junior Scholastic are still staples in classrooms across the country, and Scholastic Kid Reporters are still out there getting stories that matter to them and their young readers. Last, but not least, young people still receive coveted Scholastic Art & Writing Awards each year, as they have done for nearly a century. Past recipients include Andy Warhol, Bernard Malamud, Kay WalkingStick and Mozelle Thompson. The list goes on, but we wanted to hear from Dick about his memories of his father, the early years at the company, and how he has remained true to his father's vision, that few things are more magical than children discovering themselves in the pages of a book.

Season II, episode II of Half Mystic Radio features Ben Togut's poems "Saudade: Autumn", "Elegy", and "Coercion Aubade", and Bennet Bay's song "Gone". This season hosted by special guest Stephanie Dogfoot. #halfmysticspeaksHalf Mystic is an independent publishing house, literary journal, radio show, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. You can find the full show notes, including the text of the three pieces featured in this episode, at: http://halfmystic.com/blog/hmr-ii-iiBen Togut is a queer poet and singer-songwriter from New York City. He has received national recognition in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, as well as an honorable mention from the Wesleyan University Hamilton Prize for Creativity. His recent work is published or forthcoming in Hobart, The Offing, DIALOGIST, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. He is an undergrad at Wesleyan University.Bennett Bay is a musician based in Singapore whose sound is inspired by everyday occurrences, personal values and pastoral imageries. An acoustic guitar stands at the core of his music, with flourishes of string quartets and brass trios in an attempt to keep the music as simple and natural as possible. His music harkens to Sigur Rós, Explosions in the Sky and Nick Drake.

In this episode we're talking about creative writing with Maddy Dietz. We've wanted to talk to Maddy for a while now - she's got some interests that we think a lot of listeners will identify with. She's a high school student but is taking college courses, and shows up as a leader in Girl Scouts as part of the Girl Leadership Board and as a founding member of the Press Corps. She's working on building a career as a fiction writer and journalist and has already had a couple of her works published. Maddy can't remember a time when she wasn't writing. Even before she actually learned to read and write, she was telling stories and asking her mom to write them down. It has become more than just a creative outlet, it's her passion and something she's actively pursuing as a career. Maddy writes short stories, is working on a novel, and dabbles in poetry. She loves fiction and science fiction and talks about how she gets lost in creating worlds and characters. If she could, she'd write all the time! We talked with Maddy about how writing helps her personally, but also helps others. She knows how important it is to see yourself reflected in media, and she makes the media she wants to see herself reflected in. She writes characters she identifies with, but also those that she doesn't. She's trying to break some of the science fiction stereotypes of masculine, militaristic white men being the main characters, creating strong but realistic teenage girl characters that are more along the lines of who she'd want to read about. Maddy shared her perspective on the severe lack of teen girls in fiction that are just being teen girls. They're either very childish, or super mature with unrealistic skills. She took on the task of creating a teenage character who really is a teenage character. She describes it as freeing, and as her favorite character so far. We talked about Maddy and Hannah's shared love for sci-fi and why it speaks to them, like imagining a future where sexism and racism aren't the main story - where our society has moved past those issues. Also, robots and space! We also got into trial and error, inevitable failures that come along with submitting creative writing pieces to publishers, and how Maddy has learned to move past feeling defeated and keep putting her work out there. Maddy works on her writing craft by going to writing camps, joining online sharing and editing communities for young writers, and just working on different types of stories and practicing different styles all the time. What's your passion? How do you work on it? We hope you find Maddy's story inspiring! Check out Maddy's published work in the short story anthology Triangulation: Dark Skies. Her story is titled Why We Endured the Darkness. Here's a resource Maddy asked us to share: The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are a fantastic way for young creators of all skill levels and mediums to become more used to sending their works out into the world! They also have plenty of great scholarships.   Find out more about the show and reach out to our podcast team at GIRLTalk.GirlScoutsRV.org.

What better way to hit off our new season than with this episode, in which we are going to explore the intersection of scientific and creative processes, such as writing!

The U.S. Surgeon General said Monday to expect new outbreaks of the coronavirus resulting from the nationwide protests - protests that have seen thousands of people gather in close proximity - over the death of George Floyd.

For nearly 100 years, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards has been recognizing the creative work of high school students across America. Only sixteen students are chosen in the entire country, and this year, Moscow, Idaho's own Jieyan Wang won gold, and a $10,000 college scholarship.

Rebecca Shapiro is a Senior VP at Shore Fire Media, a publicity firm that represents artists and culture makers int he top of their fields. Rebecca resides in downtown Manhattan with her husband and two children. A native of Chicago, IL, Rebecca was educated at Connecticut College. She sits on the board of directors of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, which presents the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and also works closely with the MPN Research Foundation, a non-profit founded by her father that drives research for rare blood cancers. Her hobbies include watercolors, running, tennis.

Arts this month: Birdlink; RS writer David Browne on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; jazz pianist Miki Yamanaka; Neil Rosen and Kenneth Branagh; the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards; and "Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away" exhibit.

"Exploring grief through creativity provides a really valuable experience. Students can learn more about themselves through the creation process. And it does take a certain level of bravery to submit the work for evaluation because that might not necessarily be the reason why you created it. But I invite creative students who are coping with grief to do that very thing, which is to submit their work to us. By participating in the program, by opting your work in for the New York Life Award, you expand the community of teens openly discussing and coping with grief." - Tendo Mutanda, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards This week I talk with Tendo Mutanda and Darius Atefat-Peckham about the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Tendo is with the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, which runs the program, and Darius is one of the student winners for poetry, and is winding up his term as one of just five National Student Poets before heading off to college in the Fall. Darius lost his mom and brother in a car accident when he was just three years old, so we talked about his experience with grief and what poetry has meant to him over the years, including how his poetry style has shifted over time to incorporate joy along with grief. Tendo and I talked about the awards program for both artists and writers, including who can participate, and how. We also talked about the New York Life Award, which creates a space for teens to explore grief in their art or writing. I hope you enjoy my discussion with Tendo Mutanda and Darius Atefat-Peckham.

Woodland Hills High School students tell stories about their grandparents and Sewickley Academy students Asyu and Erin share original writing honored through the 2019 Scholastic Art and Writing Award competition.   Background Music:"Maccary Bay" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Chicago Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson reads hers and Lucille Clifton's work and then discusses Black feminist embodiment and musical influences -- including but not limited to Jamila Woods, Marvin Gaye, and Joni Mitchell. In the words of Terrance Hayes: "“Kara is amazing! She's a terrific writer of course in the poems but in the prose too. Style plus insight.” Finally: special shout out to Dr. Camea Davis, Urban Word NYC, and The National Youth Poet Laureate Program (see links below) for putting together such a rad collaboration. On Kara Jackson -- Kara Jackson is the daughter of country folks. She is the Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago. Her work investigates a trail of language that leads from the South to the North. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Jackson attempts to document her lineage of divine womanhood in a country that demands its erasure. She is a product of the literary bloodline created by women like Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Joan Baez. Jackson is an alum of the solo voice jazz ensemble at Merit School of Music. Jackson received the Scholastic Art and Writing Award for her short story Nursery Rhymes, which won a silver medal at the national level. She is an Adroit Journal mentee. Jackson is an alum of the Spoken Word Club at Oak Park River Forest High school. She represented the school in the Louder Than a Bomb festival from 2016-2018, and in her final year performed on final stage at the Auditorium Theatre, where she was granted the Literary Award by Patricia Smith. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Frontier Poetry, Rookie Mag, Nimrod Literary Journal, and Saint Heron. She has two articles published in Blavity. She has two poems featured in the latest anthology edited by Kevin Coval, The End of Chiraq. Jackson is a TEDx speaker. She will attend Smith College in the fall of 2019. For more: (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kara-jackson)// Kara's TEDx Talk: (bit.ly/KJTEDx) // VS Podcast: (bit.ly/karavs)// Follow Kara at: (https://www.instagram.com/fridahalo/) + (https://twitter.com/fridahalo?lang=en). On The National Youth Poet Laureate Program: (youthlaureate.org) // (urbanwordnyc.org). ● The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Joining Matt are Juvana Soliven & Donnie Cervantes two of the active players involved in bringing us the 56th Annual Hawaii Regional Scholastic Art Awards. The event offers students in grades 7 through 12 an opportunity to showcase their exemplary artwork and talent. http://sfca.hawaii.gov/hisam/visitor-information

Each year, five National Student Poets are chosen from a pool of outstanding writers, grades 10-11, who have received a national Scholastic Art & Writing Award for poetry. Help us celebrate National Poetry Month with a conversation and some poetry reading with this year's National Student Poets. Guests Camila SanMiguel Annie Castillo Kinsale Hueston Juliet Lubwama Ben Lee

Each year, five National Student Poets are chosen from a pool of outstanding writers, grades 9-11, who have received a national Scholastic Art & Writing Award for poetry. Listen as we celebrate National Poetry Month with a conversation and some poetry reading with this year's National Student Poets.

  Chatting With Sherri chats with Illustrators of the Future winner, Camber Arnhart, and Writers of the Future winners, Christoph Weber  and JW (James) Alden! Camber Arnhart was born in 1996 in the town of Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised by her two artistic and supportive parents.She received a number of art awards, including a national gold medal in the 2015 Scholastic Art and Writing Competition. Christoph Weber from Reno, NVwas one of the twelve writer winners making it further than some several thousand others who entered the international competition. Christoph is fairly certain that he holds the distinction of being the only winner to answer his finalist notification call impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger. In his defense, he thought the call was from a telemarketer. J.W. Alden of Hypoluxo has always had a fascination with the fantastic. As such, he's made science fiction and fantasy his literary domain—though some other weird things sneak in from time to time. His fiction has appeared in Nature, Daily Science Fiction, the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology series, and various other publications.   We will chat about; Galaxy Press's bestselling anthology, Writers and Illustrators of the Future Volume 32 and the Writers and illustrators of the Future contest. And how new writers can take part in the next contest!

In Episode 36 of the “High Regard Show,” “Creativity & Katina,” we give ya a little peek into the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. If you have never been, and most of you probably haven't, it is so inspiring to see the future creatives of tomorrow, as well as special guest speeches from Alex Baldwin, Tim Gunn, Ken Burns, and my boss, Mr. Dick Robinson, who had to do little more than mention Scholastic's body of work to get the crowd into a frenzy! Also, while Tom was yucking it up at Carnegie Hall, Nikki jumped off the bowl to take a phone interview with this week's awesome guest, professional actress and comedian Katina Corraro, who's releasing a video of her Apple iTune's No. 1 comedy album, "Hot Date," via Reelhouse. Although Nikki claims to love Katina, she did compare her to Alka-Seltzer — you be the judge if it's a good thing or not. Seriously, Katina, we really dig you, and not just for the cookies you promised us (although we will be holding you to them, no backs!). Learn more about Katina Corrao and the Art & Writing Awards from the social links below: Website: https://katinacorrao.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katina.corrao Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatinaCorrao/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katinacorrao/ Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: http://www.artandwriting.org Check back for new shows every Monday on SoundCloud and iTunes (please be sure to follow and rate us)! You can also follow us at: highregardshow.com and on the following social media by searching “HighRegardShow:” Twitter Facebook Tumblr Google+ Instagram Pinterest You can also find hosts @TomRoarty and @NikkiMMascali on Twitter. Finally, if you would like to have your work, product, band or even your mom promoted on the show, drop us a note at highregardshow@gmail.com

In this episode, we're talking about the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the nation's longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in grades 7–12. Created in 1923 by Scholastic founder Maurice R. "Robbie" Robinson, the program has a noteworthy roster of past winners, including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, and Joyce Carol Oates, among many others. We sat down with the Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Virginia McEnerney, Scholastic CEO Dick Robinson, and two 2016 Gold Medal Portfolio Recipients, Razan Elbaba and Alex Zhang.  Guests: Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Virginia McEnerney Scholastic CEO Dick Robinson Razan Elbaba, 2016 Gold Medal Portfolio Recipient, Photography Alex Zhang, 2016 Gold Medal Portfolio Recipient, Poetry Additional Resources: Learn more about the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, and follow them on Twitter at @artandwriting.  Special thanks: Music composed by Lucas Elliot Eberl Sound mix and editing by Daniel Jordan Produced by Megan Kaesshaefer  

In this episode, we're talking about the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in grades 7–12. Created in 1923 by Scholastic founder Maurice R. "Robbie" Robinson, the program has a noteworthy roster of past winners, including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, and Joyce Carol Oates, among many others. We sat down with the Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Virginia McEnerney, Scholastic CEO Dick Robinson, and two 2016 Gold Medal Portfolio Recipients, Razan Elbaba and Alex Zhang.  Guests: Executive Director of the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Virginia McEnerney Scholastic CEO Dick Robinson Razan Elbaba, 2016 Gold Medal Portfolio Recipient, Photography Alex Zhang, 2016 Gold Medal Portfolio Recipient, Poetry Additional Resources: Learn more about the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, and follow them on Twitter at @artandwriting.  Special thanks: Music composed by Lucas Elliot Eberl Sound mix and editing by Daniel Jordan Produced by Megan Kaesshaefer  

2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT (Outside US: Dial 00 + 1 + 714-464-4891) Viki Winterton interviews Demitri and Diana Makeig!  Demitri Makeig is a filmmaker and screenwriter. A graduate of Interlochen Center for the Arts, he was a YoungArts winner and participated in the YoungArts Miami regional program, where he studied with master writers. He also received a Silver Medal and multiple honorable mention awards from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, for his screenwriting and photography. Demitri's 6-minute senior thesis film was chosen for screening at the Traverse City Film Festival. His film was also chosen for the Interlochen Review and was the film department’s pick to screen at the May 2015 Honors Convocation.  In the fall, he will be attending the Relativity School in Los Angeles in pursuit of a B.F.A. in Film and Digital Content with a concentration in Writing for Film and Television. Diana Kendros Makeig is a communications strategist and her current business venture is Identify Connected Communication, which teaches communication and inner dialogue techniques that enable her clients to take full responsibility for their thoughts, words and actions.   Using her Identify Communication Method, Diana teaches clients how to uncover beliefs and intentions, remove unspoken negative impressions, survey their pre-conceived conclusions and step into a space of exploration, whether in workplace or personal situations.   

Each year, five National Student Poets are chosen from a pool of outstanding writers, grades 9-11, who have received a national Scholastic Art & Writing Award for poetry. In this episode we celebrate National Poetry Month with a conversation and some poetry reading with the 2015 National Student Poets.

Listeners to this show will hear great examples of writing from The Best Teen Writing, a collection of stories, essays, and poems written by teen authors awarded medals in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. We also feature teachers discussing a new online community, Vision and Voice , where teachers in grades 7–12 can share inspiration an ideas from The Best Teen Writing.

This episode features Virginia McEnerney, executive director of the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, who talks about the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the nation's oldest and most prestigious teen-writing competition. Joining Virginia is Harris Durrani, a 2011 Portfolio Gold Award Recipient for his General Writing Portfolio. Learn how site directors and teachers use participation in the program in their classrooms and as part of their continuity programs.

The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers identifies teenagers with exceptional artistic and literary talent and brings their remarkable work to a national audience through The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Join us as we visit with the Alliance and some of the NWP sites working with the Alliance to identify our most talented young writers.