Marcucci, Merrigan & Damodaran donning their National Medals
Three Newark Academy students earned 2016 Scholastic Writing National Medals. Kiran Damodaran ’17 and Elizabeth Merrigan ’16 earned Silver Medals for Poetry and James Marcucci ’16 earned a Gold Medal for novel writing. Of over 320,000 Scholastic entries in 2016, National Medal winners represent less than 1% of submissions. Of those, only 15 students across the nation received Gold Medals in Novel Writing. James won for his novel excerpt, THE LONG HARVEST. Kiran won for his poem “Collision Theory” and Elizabeth for her poems “Archipelago,” “Man of the Valley,” “Turbulence,” “Watermelons” and “In the Wallpaper.” James was honored at at award ceremony in Carnegie Hall in June. Congratulations Liz, Kiran and James!