Although the Eudora Welty Foundation and Welty House and Garden are unable to have a Scholastic Writing Awards ceremony this year in keeping with safety precautions regarding the Coronavirus, we are pleased to share photos of the 2021 awards winners here. Schools and individual winners are invited to send digital photos to Sally Birdsall, administrator of the Scholastic Writing Awards for the Mississippi Region, to sallybirdsl@gmail.com. Please include name, school, hometown, grade, categor(ies), and award(s) received.
Pictured here are Jackson Academy Upper School award winners. They are, from left, Lucy Elfert, Gold Key for Personal Essay/Memoir “Anxiety’s Story,” Honorable Mention for Dramatic Script “Therapy Thursday’; Addie Elliott, Honorable Mention for Flash Fiction “Mr. Shelby’s Library”; Caroline Redman, Silver Key for Flash Fiction “A Pirate’s War,” Silver Key for Poetry “Forgotten Childhood,” Silver Key for Short Story “Flynn Gallagher: Swashbuckling Rogue”; Kate White, Honorable Mention for Flash Fiction “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas”; Elena Roberts, Honorable Mention for Flash Fiction “The End” and for Poetry “When I Remember This Life”; and Natalie Turner, Silver Key for Personal Essay/Memoir “Nike.”
Here are winners from throughout the state who have shared their pictures.
Maggie Birdsall, Jackson Prep, Silver Key for poetry, “The Lonely Man” with teacher Sarah Atkinson. 
Annalyce Riley, Cathedral High, Silver Key for journalism “Linking Livestock to Climate Change.” 
Gold Key winners from Lamar School, Betsy Suarez, Personal Essay/Memoir “The Untold Story Behind Work”; Svanik Ravi, Critical Essay Leadership”; Bella Gray, poetry “Growth”; Ahmed Pasha, personal essay/memoir “Personal Essay.”
Back row, Maggie Triplett, Abby Cope,
Caroline Prewitt, Ali Rowland, Jaemin Byeon,
Front row, Wyatt Davidson, Hannah Grace Hannington,
Elizabeth Scott Bond, (not pictured, Isaac Hall),
Lamar School, Silver Key
Davis McBrayer, Jaylin Jones, MS School for
Jackson Morgan, Math and Science, Silver Key
(not pictured, Ward Adams) and Honorable Mention
Lamar School, Honorable
Mention
Jayden Woullard, Murrah High, Norah Bruce, Oxford High, Alana Brown-Davis, South Pike
Silver Key Silver Key High, American Voices Nominee,
Gold Key, Honorable Mention
Isabella Flores, Anna Lamanilao, Vicksburg Catholic Kristin Barrett, Petal Wyatt Carter, Petal High,
St. Andrew’s High, High, Silver Key, Teacher Dani Kay Thomas High, Gold Key Gold Key
Silver Key
Loren Wade, Petal High, Silver Key Petal High, Silver Key Petal High, Honorable Mention
Anna-Lewis Bryant, Northwest Rankin High Calum Palmer, Northwest Rankin Elizabeth Ratliff, Northwest Rankin High,
High, Honorable Mention High, Silver Key Silver Key
Madelyn Berry, Northwest Rankin High, Parks Webb, Northwest Rankin High Samson Kassahun, Northwest
Silver Key Honorable Mention Rankin High, Silver Key