Online Publications
Denver Channel – Lakewood’s Sylvie Lamontagne eliminated in Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals
Time Magazine Online – National Spelling Bee: A look back at the winners from the past ten years (from 1986-1995)
Vox.com – What the National Spelling Bee is like for one of the nation’s elite spelling coaches
Vox.com – What it’s like to win the National Spelling Bee
USA Today Online – Coaches, word lists and a special kind of memory: The tricks to becoming a Spelling Bee champion
Business Insider – Where are they now? Past Spelling Bee Champions
New York Times – To-the-Spelling-Victor-Belong-the-Spoliators
Books
Andy Andrews: Storms of Perfection: In Their Own Words
David Grambs – Death by Spelling: A Compendium of Tests, Super Tests, and Killer Bees
James Maguire – American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds
Shalini Shankar – Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z’s New Path to Success