Student Wins National Honor for Her Writing

Emily Mae Czachor, a junior at , has been recognized for excellence in writing by the National Council of Teachers of English.

The Council honored 274 high school juniors as outstanding writers in the 2012 NCTE Achievement Awards in writing. The recipients were chosen from 1,107 students nominated in their junior year by their teachers from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Canada, and American schools abroad.

The Achievement Awards in Writing program was established in 1957 to encourage high school students in their writing and to recognize publicly some of the best student writers in the nation. Assessments of student writing are based on students’ samples of their own best prose or verse and on a themed writing. Two judges read each submission, looking especially for writing that demonstrates effective and imaginative use of language to inform and move an audience.

Winning students and their schools receive certificates recognizing their accomplishment and the names of the students and their schools are posted on the NCTE website.

Czachor is one of only nine students from New Jersey to be recognized with this honor. She is a student in Anne Wessel Dwyer's AP English Language and Composition class and is active in the literary magazine, Glyphs, and the theater program at the high school. Acknowledging Czachor's talent, Wessel Dwyer noted that in her writing, Czachor “easily merges physical and psychological landscapes that are vivid and sometimes edgy.” She has been accepted in the Kenyon Young Writer's Program sponsored by the Kenyon Review at Kenyon College in Ohio.