So I won a Silver Key for my Personal Essay in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and was happy of course, especially because it was the only work I did and I did it 3 days before the deadline. However, today I was informed that it would be published in an anthology of the Best Teen Writing of 2015 book in my state. The state chapter of Scholastic selected about 6-7 personal essays from my state to be published in the book, and I was just wondering if this really means anything. Could I technically say I’m published, even if it really is or isn’t much? The book is supposedly going to be distributed to all English teachers in the state, and they will decide whether or not they will use them as lessons in class. I personally wouldn’t study a high schooler’s work, but that’s just me!
Yes! It’s unique! Did you literally win a silver key?
^ It’s a little pin. Very cute. I tried to see if mine would work as earrings but the posts were too big.
Congrats!! I’m not sure you could say that you were published though
@Anish14 haha yeah - it’s quite small and insignificant though.
I wouldn’t say I was published, but I would describe it as you did… “I was published as one of 7 essays in my state Scholastic Teen Writing anthology etc. etc.”
If you say “published in…” and name the publication, that’s fine. But if you say “I’m a published author,” then I would say that’s stretching it