CREATIVE TEENS CAN EARN MONEY FOR COLLEGE: YOUNG WRITERS AND ARTISTS IN HIGH SCHOOL INVITED TO SUBMIT WORK TO THE SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS

12 Seniors Will Receive Top Honors and $10,000 Awards; Additional $3.25 Million in Art and Writing Scholarships Available to Selected Students

New York, NY (October 1, 2008) -- The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing outstanding visual art and writing created by teenagers to a national audience, has launched their call for submissions for the 2009 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The Awards offer early recognition for creative teenagers and art and writing scholarship opportunities for graduating high school seniors.

Creative young writers and artists in grades 7-12 are invited to submit their best work in more than 25 categories, including animation, poetry, sculpture, fashion design, journalism, photography, novel writing, science fiction and many more. Learn more about regional submission deadlines and how to submit work here.

You can see 2008 winners work here. These are very talented students in arts, photography, writing. Take a look and be inspired to participate yourself.