Coral Reef Senior High School’s outstanding literary magazine, Elysium, has been hnored for the third year in a row. In the first of four announcements of Crown Finalists for 2017 awards, Elysium received the prestigious Crown Award recognition from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA).
Forty two print magazines and 15 hybrid magazines were chosen as Finalists for the CSPA Crown Awards to be presented in March 2017 at ceremonies in New York City. The magazines were published during the 2015-16 academic year. Michael Gordon, who was last year’s editor in chief and now attends Williams College, will join Amy Scott, sponsor, in accepting the award at that time.
The Crown Awards honor top student publications chosen from CSPA’s members. Crowns are selected for overall excellence in a head-to-head comparison. Student publishing in news, magazine, yearbook or digital (online) formats are all eligible. During Crown consideration, publications are judged on their excellence as shown by their design, photography, concept, coverage and writing. A total of 1,100 publications were eligible for judging.
Crown Finalists are actual winners, not nominees. Some will be announced as Gold Crowns; the rest are Silver Crowns. Final results will be announced and presented at the CSPA ceremonies in March.
The CSPA offers three annual competitions to honor excellence in student publishing: Medalist Critiques for written evaluation, Crown Awards for overall excellence and Gold Circle Awards for individual student recognition.
