RVC Teen Places First In International Writing Contest

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY — A South Side High School student was the first ever first-place winner in the poetry category of the international Scribe Writing Contest.

The contest was organized by 17-year-old Vishnu Bharathram, a senior at Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, NY, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic to help provide a distraction from the current state of events and encourage teens to use their imaginations.

South Side's Isabelle Lu placed first in the poetry category. $2,750 in cash prizes were awarded to the three top winners of the poetry category, as well as to the top three in the fiction category.

Submissions came from more than 900 students in 17 different countries.