Meet Aryash Shyam, the 14-year-old Indian-American student who won a $1,000 national writing prize for a historical-fiction story set in a Philadelphia print shop on July 4, 1776
- Aryash Shyam, a ninth-grade student at Lehigh Valley Academy, was named one of four middle-school winners of the 2026 John Estey Student Writing Competition, organised by the American Writers Museum in Chicago.
- His winning story, The Weight of Lead, follows a young printer's apprentice working on the Declaration of I
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- Aryash Shyam, a ninth-grade student at Lehigh Valley Academy, was named one of four middle-school winners of the 2026 John Estey Student Writing Competition, organised by the American Writers Museum in Chicago.
- His winning story, The Weight of Lead, follows a young printer's apprentice working on the Declaration of I
Sources: Times of India