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Ransom Everglades ‘26 Student, an Alum of Pinecrest Elementary and Alexander Montessori Schools, Wins Major Local, National Writing Awards
Patrick Keedy Brown, a junior grade 11 student at Ransom Everglades School, was the recipient of the grand prize at the 2024-2025 La Plume Young Writers’ Competition, receiving his award and a cash prize on December 8th during a ceremony held at the Coral Gables Museum. His winning entry, the original short story Deliver Us, was also published by La Plume and a special hardcover version was presented to him at the event. Copies of this book are available for purchase at cost at www.laplumecontest.com.
Earlier on December 1st, Keedy Brown was also named a 2025 YoungArts National Competition Winner for Creative Writing or Poetry, the only student in Florida to receive any recognition in this category. The event is sponsored by The National Foundation for the Advancement of Artists, and many people consider it the premier youth writing competition in the country. This honor also involves a cash prize of up to $10,000. Winners are also considered for nomination to become a U.S. Presidential Scholar.
Keedy Brown, who graduated from Pinecrest Elementary School (as did his mother), and previously Alexander Montessori School where he attended Kindergarten and pre-K, is also a nominee for The Coolidge Scholarship and is a semi-finalist for the National Security Language Institute Youth (NSLI-Y) Scholarship, which if selected would fund him to study language abroad in Asia or Europe during Summer 2025. He is also a nominee for the Dan Leslie Bowden Fellowship in the Humanities, a funded, signature almost year-long research program of Ransom Everglades School. Keedy Brown has additionally met the eligibility requirements to become a 2025-2026 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist, with formal announcements to occur in September at the start of the next school year. He has won multiple “Gold Leafs” in several Scholastic Writing Awards competitions since entering high school.
An avid writer and poet, Keedy Brown has attended Kenyon College Young Writers Workshop, in Ohio, as well as Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Writing program, in Michigan. He has started a poetry podcast with episodes premiering beginning in January.
As a volunteer, he teaches English and writing in the Breakthrough Miami enrichment program on weekends, where he has completed over 100 hours of volunteer work mentoring students from less advantaged schools. He also just completed one year as Senior Patrol Leader for his 40 member strong Boy Scout Troop 840, which is sponsored by St. Louis Catholic Church, in Pinecrest. He is expected to attain his Eagle Scout Badge this spring.
These two latest awards cap a momentous year for Keedy Brown. On April 14th, he was presented with the grand prize for submitting the winning entry during the 2024 Poetry Night at The Barnacle competition, an original poetry contest that received over four hundred poems submitted by 235 students from 11 high schools for consideration, from which 12 finalists were selected. He received a generous gift card to Books & Books, from signature sponsor TradeStation, and presented to him by Richard Blanco, Miami-Dade poet laureate and inaugural poet at the second Obama Inauguration. Keedy Brown read his winning poetry aloud and it can be viewed here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Uncsr9CsQwocZfV46
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