CLC's 'Prairie Voices' magazine receives First Class distinction
"Prairie Voices," College of Lake County's annual literary arts magazine, was named a Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines First Class magazine by the National Council of Teachers of English for its 2021-22 edition.
This year, schools in 42 states and five countries nominated 262 student magazines. Magazines from middle school, high school and higher education were welcomed for the 2022 contest. Only 38 magazines were awarded the contest's highest distinction, REALM First Class.
"I am so happy that within one year, Prairie Voices has exceeded expectations by winning a First Class honor this year after winning an excellent award in the REALM contest last year," Prairie Voices Editor and CLC Instructor Dr. Nick Schevera said.
"Thank you to all the students, faculty, student editors, art editor, instructor Bob Lossmann and the staff in public relations and marketing for making this happen."
The REALM program publicly recognizes excellent literary magazines produced by students with the support of their teachers.
REALM is designed to encourage all schools to develop literary magazines that celebrate the art and craft of writing. Schools in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, United States territories, Canada and American schools abroad are eligible to nominate magazines.
Prairie Voices is available to read online at www.clcillinois.edu. For more information about the REALM Program, visit www.ncte.org.
NCTE is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. As the nation's oldest organization of prekindergarten through graduate school literacy educators, NCTE has a history of deriving expertise and advocacy from its members' professional research, practice, and knowledge.
NCTE is the home of the Intellectual Freedom Center, the National Day on Writing, ReadWriteThink.org, the Build Your Stack initiative, and NCTE Verse.
NCTE supports nearly 20,000 teachers across the prekindergarten-college spectrum, with a mailing list of over 500,000 and more than 100,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter, plus NCTE regularly sees more than 100,000 visitors in web traffic monthly.
For more information, visit www.ncte.org.
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