These are the 13 students to win Gold Key Awards in the Alliance of Young Artist and Writers National Writing Contest. (not shown is Martha Villegas). It is a 87 year contest and it's former winners include Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Andy Warhol, Robert Redford and Frances Farmer. This is the first win for Blake and we are proud of the thirteen Creative Writing majors! The adults in the picture are, Casey Curry- Director of Creative Writing, Dr. Scott Rudes - Assistant Principal of Fine Arts Programs and Jacqueline Haynes - Principal of H. W. Blake High School. The students names and titles of their works are:

Michelle Farina - Poetry - Utopia by the Lake
Jana Gipson - Poetry - The Monster
Alyx Hargrett - Poetry - Night Shift
Renee Johnson - Poetry - Time In My Neighborhood
Natalie Krass - Poetry - Reflective Tea
Rachel Landers - Poetry - Heat
Marguerite Nabach - Poetry - Moonbeam Dagger
Jordan Noh - Poetry - Tranquility
Jina Roscoe - Poetry - Artificial Light
Chase Shiflet - Short Story - Vultures
Martha Villegas - Poetry - For Your Sake
Alexis Welcome - Poetry - Forever Ended
Chandler Wilson - Poety - Word War One