Fox Chapel magazine, newspaper win national awards

Two Fox Chapel Area High School publications won recognition in the 2021 American Scholastic Press Association Annual Review and Contest Awards for scholastic yearbooks, magazines, and other publications. The 2020-2021 literary arts magazine Tapestry received a first-place national award. The high school’s newspaper, Fox Tales Quarterly, was also named a first-place national winner for the fall 2021 issue.

The 2020-21 student staff members of “Tapestry” were 2021 graduates Molly Dean (layout design) and Divine Eyth (editor-in-chief); 2021-2022 seniors Carlie Barnett (head of submissions), Alexa Berman, Nina Busch and Audrey Mah; 2021-22 juniors Ishaan Acharya, Mikhail Ion and Sophie Shao; and 2021-22 sophomore Kaylee Dunham. The students’ advisor is Fox Chapel Area High School English teacher Jessica Green.

The 2021-22 student staff members of Fox Tales Quarterly are seniors juniors Justine Eng, Russell Fenton, Kaylee Uribe, and Ann Yonas; juniors Andrew Begg, Helia Hamidi, Trevor Katz, Leah Kenyon, Nathania Lingam and Mahitha Ramachandran; sophomores Annalese Bartolacci, Katherine Haas, Shriya Krishnamurthy, Safiya Stewart and Abraham White; and freshmen Josie Giguere and Paris Ricketts. The students’ sponsor is Fox Chapel Area High School gifted education facilitator Lisa Gibson.