North Hills Senior Wins National Writing Award, Will Be Recognized at Carnegie Hall

North Hills High School senior Kristen Grom’s writing talents have been recognized in a national contest from among hundreds of thousands of submissions.

Grom’s fiction novel “Hopefully Yours” received a national Gold Medal Award and was selected by the Scholastic Publishing House Young Adult Division as the novel writing category winner. She will be recognized at Carnegie Hall in New York City on May 31, and the ceremony will be streamed live online.

She will work directly with a professional editor at Scholastic to undergo the same editorial process utilized by authors and prospective writers with the goal of publishing her novel.

The awards are part of the 90^th annual Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the country’s longest running and most prestigious award and recognition program for creative teenagers.

More than 230,000 submissions were received in 28 categories including dramatic script, journalism, humor, novel writing, film and animation, painting and more. A total of 400 novels were submitted into the contest, and only three were awarded national Gold Medal Awards.

Grom’s novel earned a Gold Key Award at the regional competition for western Pennsylvania to advance to the national competition. Only .3 percent of students advance beyond regionals. At the national competition, a panel of visual and literary arts luminaries judged the entries to determine works that best exemplify originality, technical skill and the emergence of a personal voice or vision.

For more information the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, click here.

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