Here is a partial list of awards received and works published by CW students, beginning Fall 2015. Most recent at the top.
Emilie Mayer, class of 2023 — Bay Area Creative Foundation 2023 CYA
San Francisco Youth Anthology Issue 1 SPRING 2023 (Poetry):
Haze Fry, class of 2024 — “San Francisco”
Raquel Silberman, class of 2025 — “Dear Sun”
Kendall Snipper, class of 2026 — “Silver Pendant Boy”
American High School Poets “Inside of Me” Winter 2022: Pascal Lockwood-Villa, “For Once” (Topical Winner)
Raquel Silberman, class of 2025 — “My Body, the Sea/Mi Cuerpo, el Mar” published in Élan Literary Magazine
Hannah Duane, class of 2020 — “What Online Chess Taught One Teen About Digital Life” published in Wired Magazine
2019 “EXACTLY!” THEY SAID…
A Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage
Kenzo Fukuda, “Middle School Advice”
Tess Horton, “Atop the SaltbackMountain”
Sofi Orkin, “Here’s a Theory Darling”
Stella Pfahler, “The Magnolia Man”
Charlotte Pocock, “Matter of the Heart and Mind”
Hannah Duane, class of 2020 — “How Cutting My Hair Short Helped Me Own My Power As A Teenage Girl” published in Huffington Post
2018 Writopia Bay Area Teen Writing Awards
Jessica Schott-Rosenfield, Poetry
Sofi Orkin, Poetry (finalist)
2018 National Amateur Poetry Competition
Lauren Faye (semi-finalist)
2018 SFUSD Literary Arts Award Winners
High School Short Fiction
2nd Place Huckleberry Shelf, class of 2019
3rd Place Solange Baker, class of 2019
High School Non-Fiction
2nd Place Nadja Goldberg, class of 2021
Honorable Mention: Best Advice Nina Berggren, class of 2021
High School Poetry
1st Place Julieta Fuentes Roll, class of 2019
2nd Place Charlotte Pocock, class of 2019
3rd Place Xuan Ly, class of 2021
2017 SFUSD Literary Arts Award Winners
High School Short Fiction
1st Place Julieta Fuentes Roll, class of 2019 — “Roadtrip”
2nd Place Emily Kozhina, class of 2020 — “Paper Thin”
3rd Place Harmony Johnson-Wicker, class of 2018 — “Do You Speak My Language” (tie)
High School Non-Fiction
1st Place Anna Geiger, class of 2018 — “Lone Tree”
1rd Place Lena Hartsough, class of 2019 — “I Want to Talk About…”
High School Poetry
3rd Place Charlotte Pocock, class of 2019 — “we (dont) dance here”
“spring mother tongue” Award: Kenzo Fukuda, class of 2020 — “Half & Half”
High School Dramatic Script
1st Place Solange Baker, class of 2019 — “Meanwhile in Heaven” (tie)
Rae Kim, class of 2020 — “Carla Morning” and “Oasis” published in Parentheses Journal
2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers
Emma Berensein, class of 2017 — “Hooky” Gold Key Award for short story
Amina Aineb, class of 2017 — “Penny for Your Thoughts” Silver Key Award for short story
Emma Eisler, class of 2017 — “Where I Live at the Center of Everything” Silver Key Award for writing portfolio
Nina Berggren, class of 2020 — “Snowglobe” Silver Key Award for Poetry
Samantha Friedman, class of 2020 — “Dearest” published in Imagine, by the The America Library of Poetry
Stella Pfahler, class of 2019 — “Road Trip” published in Parallax Online
Kayne Belul, class of 2018 — “Crumbs” published in Page & Spine
Kayne Belul, class of 2018 — “Roots” published in Synchronized Chaos
Julieta Roll, class of 2019 — “A Love Letter to the Field” published in weirderary
Thalia Rose, class of 2018 — “16” published in Barking Sycamores
Isaac Schott-Rosenfield, class of 2017 — “Inkwell” produced by Cutting Ball Theater
2016 SFUSD Literary Arts Award Winners
High School Short Fiction
1st Place Emma Eisler, class of 2017
2nd Place Amina Aineb, class of 2017
3rd Place Emma Bernstein, class of 2017
High School Non-Fiction
1st Place Davis DuBose-Marler, class of 2017
High School Poetry
1st Place Angelica LaMarca, class of 2018 — “There Is a Wind Flit”
2nd Place Kayne Belul, class of 2018 — “135_3”