James Blume ’19 Wins Award for Writing

James Blume ’19 won the 2018 National Council of Teachers of English Achievement Award for Superior Writing for his personal essay, “The Illustrated Generation,” which responded to this year’s theme, “Changing the narrative” as well as his short story, “Rockface.” This year, schools across the nation nominated 462 of their top juniors to participate in the Achievement Awards in Writing Program. Of those, 227 were selected to receive Certificates of Superior Writing and 235 received Certificates of Nomination. In addition to this recognition, James has earned many other awards for his writing, including a Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold Medal for Fiction for his story, “Are Rabbits Feet Really Lucky?” The NCTE entries were judged on content, purpose, audience, tone, word choice, organization, development, and style. Congratulations, James!