Kayla Shipley-Willis, a ninth grader at PAAAS in Plainfield, NJ, is the recepient of the 2017 Gold Medalist for Short Story Writing by the NAACP ACT-SO in New Jersey. Kayla competed in the Humanities/Short Story Category of the annual NAACP competition and won with her short story, “Illness,” a suspense story about a sister's quest to figure out the reason her younger brother committed suicide shortly after escaping a mental institution.
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