Two Rhinebeck High School literary magazines received awards for a second consecutive year from Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM).
REALM, which is designed to encourage schools to have literary magazines, honors literary magazines produced by students with assistance from teachers.
“Murmur” was rated excellent, and “The Rhinebeck Dispatch” received the distinguished award.
“It was a really beautiful, coordinated effort,” said Katelin Grande, adviser for “Murmur.” “They really came together to create a cohesive, beautiful representation of some of the creative writing and artwork that we have in our school.”
Claire Frischknecht and Zsuzsanna Moore served as the student editors of “Murmur.”
“I’m really happy with how it came together,” said Frischknecht. “I feel very proud of myself and everyone who put it together. I feel we can up our game and win this again next year.”
Jennifer Nelson is the adviser for “The Rhinebeck Dispatch.”
“We go to the Columbia Scholastic Press Association conference in November and the creative and scholastic skills we learned about student press, publishing, formatting and bringing readers to care about the news paid off," she said. "They worked together to make it happen.
“Holding a physical copy of what they’ve done at the end of the day, there is nothing that can replace that.”
Kaia Rouse, Adrian Jensen, Joslan Carter, Jacob Stephan and Moore served as the student editors of “The Rhinebeck Dispatch.”
“I love when I start to see the final products come to life,” said Jensen, the print design editor. “Everyone put so much work into this.’
Rouse, the managing editor, explained why it’s important for schools like Rhinebeck to continue publishing print products.
“I think it’s important because even though it’s not as prominent anymore, I do think newspapers and print magazines in this long-form physical media is a really beautiful and interesting art form. I think it’s cool for people to explore and see if they like journalism. You get to find skills you may not know you have.”