Menomonee Falls Student Amma Otchere Brings Home Gold

MENOMONEE FALLS, WI -- Amma Otchere, a senior at Menomonee Falls High School, brought home the gold – lots of it - in the 2019 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, presented by Southeast Wisconsin Scholastic Writing Region, for many of her pieces.

American Voices nominations are considered "Best in Show" for the region. The region is asked to choose 5 pieces which are then judged in New York separately for an American Voices National Medal.

The judges chose two of Amma’s pieces as possibilities which were then judged by another panel of creative professionals and was selected as the most outstanding work submitted among her peers.

GOLD KEY: Black Body of Work - Writing Portfolio

GOLD KEY: Maternal Mortality - Poetry

GOLD KEY: Passage Rites - Poetry

GOLD KEY: Summer in Suburbia - Poetry

GOLD KEY: Here Lies the Woman Exposed - Poetry

GOLD KEY: Black Work Narrative - Poetry

GOLD KEY: Fear - Poetry

GOLD KEY: My America - Poetry

AMERICAN VOICES NOMINATION: Black Work Narrative - Poetry

AMERICAN VOICES NOMINATION: My America - Poetry

Since 1923, the Scholastic Awards have recognized some of America’s most celebrated writers while they were teenagers, including: Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, and Truman Capote.

Gold Key works will soon be reviewed at the national level in New York City by panels of creative professionals. National Medalists selected by these panelists will be announced on Tuesday, March 12, 2019.

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