2022 Submissions

CYA Awardees

Presidential Award

Exceptional Award

Categories

Creative Writing

Music Composition

Music Performance

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Two Birds, One Stone

"Two Birds, One Stone" is a nostalgic story that touches on the naivety of childhood friendships and the crushing reality of growing up and growing apart. This script was created as a collaborative screenwriting assignment in our Creative Writing class.

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sticks and stones

I was able to create a piece that I am extremely proud of. I hope the readers feel they can connect with this poem, in one way or another.

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A Cry with Satan (Collection)

These poems are centered around social issues, arranged marriages/sex trafficking, and toxic masculinity, as well as one about fantasy. Pointing out these problems, which are rarely talked about, is influential to those who are affected by them. Giving a voice to those impacted, is necessary for change, and change is what we need.

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Decay

This particular piece discusses the process of grief and confusion surrounding the unexpected disappearance and presumed death of two lovers.

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The Mystery Treasure

This story was one of my favorites because of how well it really flowed.

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Utopia…?

This is very close to the Utopian dream that a lot of thinkers have been imagining about. But is it really?

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Piano Growth: Touch The Keys and Fly

I was interested in getting my story and my feelings regarding the piano onto paper and into words, and it turned into the creative writing piece I am submitting here.

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To Buy A Coffin

I thought, I must write about this, and so I set to work. Needless to say, when bubblegum is chewed, inspiration strikes.

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Growing Pains

Growing Pains is a poetry collection about coming of age. I wrote this piece earlier this semester to submit to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

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Untitled

I write poetry, and take inspiration from the world around me to describe how I see it. My poetry can be defined as my perception of the world.

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Girl I Used to Know

I just told a story. I wanted to put it down on paper. It's about a girl I used to know, I'd spend a lot of time with her, lead her on. I really did her wrong, and I'm guilty.

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La Llorona

For this piece, I chose to fuse both sides of my heritage, my grandmother's red in South Bend and my abuela’s childhood in Colombia.

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Untitled

My piece of artwork is a collection of poems I have written throughout the last year. They are unrelated to each other except for their titles, which are all single words with the dictionary definitions for them printed under the title.

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I Will Walk With You

Maggie's artistic process is sometimes complicated but for many of poems she puts on jazz or swing music and she partially closes her eyes and just writes about anything she can.

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To our good friends on Marble-2

In the end, I think my piece incorporates current ideas about life in the stars (such as the Great Filter), a good helping of meaningful-sounding phrases (many of which lack substance, which is on purpose) and an unexpected twist to make the story interesting enough to justify the more serious prelude.

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ghosts & chills

After being stuck at home during the COVID pandemic, I began to notice small things around my house; the scratched paint on our banister was the inspiration for my poem “ghosts".

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Poems

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deeper than skin

The memory behind it has so much meaning and I’m so happy something good has come from it.

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Will You Hear Me?

I am naturally a quiet and introverted person who can be more sensitive to noise than most. Sometimes I feel as if my needs are ignored because I don't make the biggest, showy-est production of them. This collection of poems is inspired by my experiences and double as entreaties for those who may not as of yet how their actions affect others like me.

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Time, the Villain we all Know and (Struggle to) Love.

This piece is about being a teenager, and the stresses that it induces once you begin to reach the end of your high school years but have not yet done the basic high school things (e.g. kissing someone, drinking, partying...).