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Long Beach Writers Earn Awards and Honors

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Long Beach High School is pleased to announce 36 individual Regional Writing Awards from Scholastic Art and Writing Awards given to the following recipients from our Talented Writers Program. Those awarded a **Gold Key will move on to the national level of the competition where winners will be announced in March 2023.

  • Rio Arengo (Grade 12) earned a Gold Key award for his Flash Fiction piece titled Lost Life and a Silver Key award for the poems titled A Lost Forest and Ghost Town.
  • Lilah Armus (Grade 9) earned a Silver Key award for the short story Cat on the Fire Escape.
  • Elliot Biern (Grade 9) earned an Honorable Mention for the poems The Man and The Concert.
  • Hailey Brandt (Grade 12) earned a Silver Key award for the poem Out of the Woods and an Honorable Mention for the poem Christmas-ish.
  • Lia Cardo (Grade 11) earned a Silver Key award for the poems Casual Dissociation, Melancholic in Early October, and Self Loathing.
  • Emily Feil (Grade 11) earned a Silver Key award for the poem Sapling and an Honorable Mention for the poem Fabric-y.
  • Isabella Gonzalez (Grade 10) earned an Honorable Mention for the poem A Brisk Walk.
  • Lindsay Hoffmann (Grade 12) earned a Silver Key award for the poem I Want to Dream Again and an Honorable Mention for the poem Sleep, I Dream of You.
  • Laika Khan (Grade 11) earned a Silver Key award for the poem Summer in Quetta and an Honorable Mention for the poems In the Hues of the Skyline and Prayers.
  • Ava Liguori (Grade 12) earned a Gold Key award for the poems My Artist and Play. Kirsten Lilly (Grade 11) earned a Silver Key award for the poe Sun Showers.
  • Saoirse Marx (Grade 12) earned an Honorable Mention for the poem A Cold New Years and Loops.
  • Gabriella Moreira (Grade 11) earned a Silver Key award for the poems Automotive Ballet and RE: Dart Mission and an Honorable Mention for the poem Fatigue.
  • Ana Lucia Ramierez Angulo (Grade 11) earned a Gold Key award for the poems Casa de Tita and Futuros Santos and a Silver Key award for the poem Entre Líneas Amarillas.
  • Shea Rehnback (Grade 10) earned a Silver Key award for the poem Lucky Penny.
  • Louise Roser (Grade 11) earned a Silver Key award for the poem Absentia.
  • Chloe Silverberg (Grade 12) earned Honorable Mention for the poem The Path of Angels.
  • Molly Zec (Grade 12) earned a Silver Key award for the poem Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Talented Writers is a four-year writing program at Long Beach High School taught by English teacher Rachell Koegel. Congratulations to all the writers on their achievements and recognition!

Date Added: 2/13/2023