Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School Literary arts magazine among nation's best

MIDLAND, Pa., Sept. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Judges for the Columbia Scholastic Press Association have selected the 2014 edition of pulp., the student literary art journal of Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, as one of the best high school student magazines in the nation.

Intriguing stories such as Alyx Evans' "Secret of Crows" helped pulp. win a Gold Crown Award from CSPA for the third time in five years.

The 2014 edition also won a Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Scholastic Press Association and a Silver Medal from the National Scholastic Press Association.

"Sustaining excellence is one of the rarest feats in the arts. That's why I'm so proud of last year's pulp. staff, who carried on the journal's tradition of greatness with style and class," said Daniel Leroy, literary adviser for the publication. Cassandra Patton was media adviser.

"It's definitely nice to get recognition for it," said Danielle Turner. Turner was poetry editor for the 2014 edition and is literary editor this year. She said contributors to the 2014 edition showed more maturity and less introspective teenage angst than often is found in high school writing. Turner hopes to earn a college degree in English and pursue a creative writing career.

Christy Patterson was a nonfiction editor for the last edition of pulp. and is managing editor this year. For her, writing is personal, not a potential career: "A way to stop the world, that's writing for me; a quiet place," she said.

The CSPA, according to its website, is an international student press association uniting student journalists and faculty advisers at schools and colleges through educational conferences, idea exchanges and award programs.

Editors for the Gold Award-winning 2014 pulp. were Media Managing Editors Trevor Wischerman (who designed the cover art) and Megan Davis, Literary Managing Editor Allison Dushack, Design Editor Adam Forrester, Print Specialist Morgan Ream, Photo Editor Andrew Tyson, Literary Editor Sydney Dixon, Outreach Editor/Fiction Editor Alyx Evans, Creative Nonfiction Editors Christy Patterson and Shannon Cavender, and Poetry Editor Danielle Turner.

Poetry staff included Kelly Cunningham, Taylor Dean, Jillian Holmes, and Rachael Shaffer. Creative nonfiction staff included Nicole Andrasko and Thomas Kraus, while the additional fiction staff members were  Autumn Johnson, Sydni Kreitzburg and Sara Lewis.

Media staff members included Haley Coe, Allison Crow, Justin Dushack, Aci Francis, Khira Monestersky, Keagen Moore, Kathryn Smith and Shelby Sweitzer.

Contributors of visual art (photographs, graphic arts/drawings  and 3D art) published in this edition were Jacquelyn Johnson, Braeden McClain, Jonatha Staniech, Brittany Cameron, Jared Laughlin, Danijel Babic,  Kathryn Smith, Kia Mangino, Justin Dushack, Trevor Wischerman, Brandon Toal, Morgan Ream, Shelby Sweitzer, Carly Kolodziej, Adam Forrester, Haley Coe, Emily Matzie, Malachai Cageao, Allison Crow, Andrew Tyson, Cierra Rauch, Gianna Catanzarite, Shae Cogley, Savana Sippel, Elaina Robbins, Kylie Sites, Jake Miller, Hannah Grover, Hannah Marchionda, Emma Hudson, Clarissa Hunter, Danielle Pollard, Kat Piccinini, Deeatra Allen, Victoria Hilke, Dylan Evans, Dylan Evans, Victoria Wagner, Caroline White and Keagen Moore.

Literary art (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) contributors were Danielle turner, Payton Cianfarano, Christy Patterson, Alyx Evans, Jillian Holness, Zachary Shamp, Sydni Kreitzburg, Sydney Dixon, Cecilia McCormick, Taylor Dean, Rose Franzen, Olivia Campbell, Shannon Cavender, Jonnah McClintock and Nicole Andrasko.

Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School (www.lppacs.org) is a Pennsylvania public school providing a state-approved academic program and pre-professional training for grades 7-12 in music, theater, dance, creative writing, health science arts and media arts. The school enrolls more than 600 students from nearly 80 school districts in western Pennsylvania.

(Contact, Principal/CEO P.K. Poling, 724.643.9004)

SOURCE Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School