Winners in 2024 poetry contests

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In the 2024 Junior League of Washington’s Youth Poetry Contest, our students won first place for eighth grade and three special commendations, also for eighth grade. In the 2024 Parkmont Poetry Festival, eleven Workshop students were finalists and four were winners. Hart had the only winners from any neighborhood DCPS school in the city. Seven students won awards in the 2024 D.C. Public Library (Southeast) Haiku Contest, five in the teen category and two in the 12-and-under category.

Winners in the 2023 Junior League Youth Poetry Contest

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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 7th grade: 1st place to Aisha Hunter and 3rd place a tie between Gavin Wood and Aisha Hunter (her second poem). Another sweep in 8th grade: 1st place to Neo-Damien Chamblee, 2nd place a tie between Naeshaun Ford and Zaniyah Taylor, and 3rd place to Trus’ Stevens. This is particularly impressive because the Junior League contest had 161 entries from more than a dozen schools.

Winners in the 2023 Parkmont Poetry Contest

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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

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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

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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.