2022 IRIS: Art + Lit Magazine Earns Pacemaker Award from the National Scholastic Press Association

Hue, the 2022 Iris: Art + Lit magazine, was named a Pacemaker award winner by the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA). Known as the “Pulitzer Prize of student journalism,” the NSPA Pacemaker is the preeminent award in scholastic press; Hue was one of only six high school literary art magazines in the country to receive the prestigious award.

Iris: Art + Lit is a collection of student poetry, essays, paintings, drawings, and photography. Submissions are solicited by magazine staff, led in 2022 by Eliza Farley ’24 and Poppy Ploen ’24, and collected from the Upper School English and Fine Arts departments. External jurors then rank submissions in each medium; jurors for the 2022 issue included photographer John Christenson and poet and author Su Hwang.

Director of Publications Kathryn Campbell, who advises the Hue staff, notes that submissions for the magazine “showcase our invested, curious students who care deeply about how they present their ideas and creativity, and represent just a snapshot of the work supported by a faculty that is intensely dedicated to our craft and our kids.”