Writing

My Writing Student Honored by State of Michigan!

Posted by lenleatherwood on

My student Lara King wrote me tonight and sent me these two photos. One is of a  certificate issued by the State of Michigan, honoring her for her national Silver Medal in the Personal Essay category of the Scholastic Artists and Writers competition.  The second is of Lara with her State Representative, Sue Allor.

Lara wrote, “I’m going to make you famous in Michigan.” Ha!  I could not be more pleased.  Lara’s essay was in the top 1% of the 350,000 entries in the oldest and most prestigious art and writing contest for youth in the United States.  She joins Truman Capote, Saul Bellow, Joyce Carol Oates, to name only a few, who have been honored on the national level in this contest, which was started in 1925.

Congratulations, Lara!  I am pleased and proud to be mentioned in this certificate.  What a treat!  Thank you, Michigan!

Big hugs, my dear. Well deserved.  You did a bang-up job on that essay.  It is a champ and so are you.

State of Michigan

Lara King and Sue Allor, Michigan State Representative

Lara

Published by lenleatherwood

I am a native Texan who has lived for the past 27 years in Los Angeles. I am a published author of both short memoir and fiction, a Pushcart nominee, a nationally award-winning writing coach, an editor, as well as a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Texas. In addition, I am the mother of three grown daughters of whom I am extremely proud, a grandmother of three darling children and the wife of a man I still love after 41 years.

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