On April 16, George Walton Academy was named Outstanding High School at the Georgia Perimeter College High School Literary Arts competition.  Students Kathleen Campbell, Allison Doyle, Emily Gutierrez, Bess Dobbs, and Grayson Shurett won awards to secure the designation for George Walton.

Poetry
Bess Dobbs, second
Emily Gutierrez, second
 
Essay
Kathleen Campbell, first and third
Allison Doyle, first
Emily Gutierrez, second

Fiction
Kathleen Campbell, first
Grayson Shurett, second

This is an excerpt from the Georgia Perimeter College publication, Copia:

“Each year, a Georgia Perimeter College faculty committee solicits manuscripts in the genres of poetry, essay, and fiction from metro area high school students.  Working with high school English teachers who encourage student participation, the committee judges hundreds of submissions and awards prizes in each genre to students in high schools affiliated with the college’s campuses.  
The competition is a celebration of the art of writing and an enrichment of students’ educational experience.  An awards ceremony publicly recognizes the award winners at a GPC location and is an event where students, families, high school teachers and principals, as well as, GPC faculty and administration acknowledge the achievement of the award winners whose work appears in the chapbook, Copia; they are published authors.  Winners also receive a gift in recognition of their selection.”