The Quill

 

Teams of four students must create written products given a prompt from a specific text type. The Quill is an original competition developed in cooperation with the North Carolina Reading Association (NCRA), and is aligned with Common Core standards.

 

Congratulations to Smith Middle School of Chapel Hill (pictured above) and Seaforth High School, our 2023 The Quill State Champions!

Saturday, December 3 marked the fourteenth annual State Finals of The Quill, the state writing competition for middle and high school students in North Carolina.  The event was hosted by Atkins High School of Winston-Salem and saw students responding to prompts in Argumentation, Problem/Solution, Narrative (middle school), Creative Writing (high school), Informative/Explanatory (middle school), and Literary Analysis (high school).  

Congratulations to Millennium Charter Academy of Mount Airy and The Early College at Guilford (pictured above), our 2022 The Quill State Champions!

Saturday, December 3 marked the 2022 State Finals of The Quill, the state writing competition for middle and high school students in North Carolina.  The event was hosted by Smith Middle School of Chapel Hill and saw students responding to prompts in Argumentation, Problem/Solution, Narrative (middle school), Creative Writing (high school), Informative/Explanatory (middle school), and Literary Analysis (high school).  

NCASA is pleased to announce Regional winners and State Finals Qualifiers for The Quill!

On November 1, students across North Carolina sat down to computers at their schools to respond to on-demand writing prompts in regional competitions for the state writing competition, The Quill.  Prompts covered the core curriculum types of Argumentation, Problem/Solution, Narrative Writing (middle school), Creative Writing (high school), Informative/Explanatory (middle school), and Literary Analysis (high school).  

Congratulations to Jay M Robinson Middle School of Charlotte and Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy of Rutherford County (pictured above), our 2021 The Quill State Champions!

Saturday, December 4 marked the 2021 State Finals of The Quill, the state writing competition for middle and high school students in North Carolina.  The event was hosted by Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School and saw students responding to prompts in Argumentation, Problem/Solution, Narrative (middle school), Creative Writing (high school), Informative/Explanatory (middle school), and Literary Analysis (high school).  

East Regional Champion MB Pollard Middle School

NCASA is pleased to announce Regional winners and State Finals Qualifiers for The Quill!

On November 3, students across North Carolina sat down to computers at their schools to respond to on-demand writing prompts in regional competitions for the state writing competition, The Quill.  Prompts covered the core curriculum types of Argumentation, Problem/Solution, Narrative Writing (middle school), Creative Writing (high school), Informative/Explanatory (middle school), and Literary Analysis (high school).  

Congratulations to Horton Middle School of Pittsboro and Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy of Rutherford County, our 2020 The Quill State Champions!

The North Carolina Association for Scholastic Activities presented the eleventh State Finals of the state writing competition, The Quill, on Monday, November 16 at participating schools statewide. This year's event was presented in a modified fashion due to the pandemic. Eighteen schools qualified from Regionals to compete in the State Finals.