1st Place: $10,000 Four Scholarship Awards
Four entries chosen citywide: poetry/spoken word, fiction/drama, personal essay/memoir and graphic novel.

2nd Place: $5,000 Four Scholarships Awards
Four entries chosen citywide: poetry/spoken word, fiction/drama, personal essay/memoir and graphic novel.

3rd Place: $2,500 Four Scholarship Awards
Four entries chosen citywide: poetry/spoken word, fiction/drama, personal essay/memoir and graphic novel.

Best Of Borough: $1,000 Twenty Scholarships Awards
One entry chosen per category from each borough: poetry/spoken word, fiction/drama, personal essay/memoir and graphic novel.

Artist Recognition Awards: $500 Fifteen Scholarship Awards
Three entries chosen from each borough from any of the categories.

Honorable Mention Awards Seventy-Five Creativity Kits
Three entries chosen per category from each borough: Students will receive inspirational gifts from Random House, Inc.

Scholarship awards will be made by Random House, Inc. to your choice of post-secondary educational institution. First Place awards will be payable over four years. All other awards will be paid during the year of 2012. When teams are involved, graphic novel category winners will share scholarship awards equally.