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Winners in the 2023 Junior League Youth Poetry Contest

In the Junior League of Washington’s 24rd Annual Youth Poetry Contest, eight of our Hart Middle School students won for eleven poems. Our writers swept the 6th grade prizes: 1st place to Kyrie Johnson, 2nd place Jayla Nelson (two of her poems tied each other), and 3rd place to Kyrie Johnson (his second poem). In […]

Winners in the 2023 Parkmont Poetry Contest

In the 41st Annual Parkmont Poetry Festival, seventeen Workshop students were finalists and five were winners: Michael Chase (8th), Jalen Collins (7th), Crystal Rogers (8th), and Trus’ Stevens (8th) from Hart Middle School, and Armani Thornton (12th) from Ballou Senior High School. Congratulations!

Winners in the 2023 Haiku Contest

Three of our students won awards in the 2023 D.C. Public Library Haiku Contest. Crystal Rogers, Caden Rogers and Shaia Holmes won certificates and prizes in a competition through the Francis A. Gregory Library in Southeast.

Winners in the D.C. Library Haiku Contest

Three Workshop students won awards in the 2022 D.C. Library Haiku Contest. In a competition through the Francis A. Gregory Library in Southeast, Naeshaun Ford won 1st place and Justice Matthews won 2nd place in the teen division, while Shaia Holmes won 3rd place in the children’s division.

Workshop poem wins Washington Post contest

The Washington Post’s KidsPost page held a nationwide contest for the ten best student poems of the year. Sixth grader Gerome Wood won and his poem “Yes!” was published in the newspaper on April 26. Here’s a hyperlink to the online edition.