Writing Contests

2023-2024 WRITING CONTESTS!

Please contact Ms. DiPaolo  Diana_DiPaolo-Caputi@manhassetschools.org with any questions regarding Writing Contests.

Congratulations to our Scholastic Writing Award Regional Winners!

Many thanks to the teachers who encouraged students to enter.

Gold Keys will move to the national competition.  We will hear the results later this spring!

• Brar, Esha                             Silver Key                           
• Falcone, Isabella                  Silver Key                           
• Haligiannis, Christina           Honorable Mention       
• Haligiannis, Christina           Honorable Mention       
• Keyoung, Lucienne               Honorable Mention
• Klissouras, Ava                     Honorable Mention
• Kong, Stanley                       Gold Key
• Kong, Stanley                       Honorable Mention
• Li, Kenneth                          Honorable Mention
• Liu, Iris                                Gold Key
• Liu, Iris                                Silver Key
• Moosikasuwan, Julia            Gold Key
• Seto, Grace                          Honorable Mention
• Seto, Grace                          Silver Key
• Shu, Ava                             Honorable Mention
• Shu, Ava                             Silver Key
• Shu, Ava                             Silver Key
• Emmanuelle Anna Sim       Silver Key
• Tseng, William                   Silver Key
• Wu, Dylan                           Gold Key
• Yoon, Caroline                   Honorable Mention
• Yoon, Dylan                       Silver Key

Manhasset students won 3 of the 4 spots in high school division of Nassau County Reading Council Contest for Young Authors. Congratulations to: Stanley Kong, Serena Mancuso, and Dylan Wu!

We are happy to announce the winners of the 2019-2020 Karie Sit Awards for Art and Writing:
Middle School Creative Writing: Jordan Aboyoun
Middle School Visual Art: Leslie Aboyoun
High School Creative Writing: Caroline Egan
High School Visual Art: TJ Rozsko
This year's theme was "catharsis." Congratulations to the winners!

Calling all artists and creative writers!

The Phoenix is looking for submissions for this year's digital issue.
The deadline is firm: Friday, May 1st at 11:59pm.
Use this link to enter your work, and thank you for your submission:
https://manhasset.instructure.com/enroll/P8J7TC

Congratulations to Manhasset student Timothy McMahon, who won second place in the 2019 contest! Click here to read the award-winning essays, including Timothy's!

2020 Essay Contest Sponsored by Life’s WORC and The Family Center For Autism (www.lifesworc.org) (www.thefamilycenterforautism.org) with appreciation to The Claire Friedlander Family Foundation (www.cffamilyfoundation.org):

ESSAY PROMPT: HOW CAN I LEAD MY SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY TO BECOME A BULLY-FREE PLACE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES?

ALL NINTH THROUGH TWELFTH GRADE STUDENTS ENROLLED AT PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN QUEENS, NASSAU, OR SUFFOLK ARE ELIGIBLE.

(Any past contestants must submit “different” “new” essays, which cannot be similar to their previous submissions.)

FIRST PRIZE, $4000, SECOND PRIZE, $3000, THIRD PRIZE, $2000

The essays, typewritten, double-spaced must be 400-500 words, submitted by the United States Postal Service, Fed Ex, or United Parcel Service postmarked by no later than May 1st, 2020. (Contact Tina Moreno at 516-741-9000 or Danny Frank at 212-279-1041 for details.)   (Please provide on a separate cover page of essay: Name of student, grade of student, home address, e-Mail address, home telephone, school address, school telephone, name of a faculty advisor.) Awards will be made at a presentation event at The Family Center For Autism by no later than June 5, 2020

No essays will be accepted, postmarked after May 1st, 2020. 

ESSAYS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO “ESSAY”/TINA MORENO:

---BY U.S. POSTAL SERVICE, LIFE’S WORC/TINA MORENO, PO BOX 8165, GARDEN CITY, N.Y. 11530-8165, OR

---BY FEDERAL EXPRESS, OR UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, LIFE’S WORC/TINA MORENO, 1501 FRANKLIN AVENUE, GARDEN CITY, N.Y. 11530.

Have you got a story to tell? How about a poem, essay, or original  film idea?  Submit your work to one of the following Writing Contests!