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The 2009 Spindrift is available for $10 at the
Shoreline Community College Bookstore.

 


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PosterArt Jury Show - February 17!
We Want Your Vote!
11am-3pm, Feb 17, VCT Building
Photography, fine art, and 3-D art. Bring your friends and family to Spindrift's Art Jury Show and vote on your favorites! OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.  Please share this with students you think might be interested.  Thank you.
Submitted by Amanda Duong

2010 Submissions

Spindrift is Shoreline Community College’s own award winning art and literary journal. Spindrift has been publishing student, local and regional art and literature since 1966. Winner of numerous awards such as best literary magazine at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival and first place in a national literary magazine competition sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA), Spindrift is once again seeking submissions of visual and graphic art, essays, poetry, and short fiction.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be accompanied by (1) a list of all materials sent, (2) a cover letter including the contributor’s name, address, phone number, email, (3) two or three lines of biographical information, and (4) an appropriately sized S.A.S.E. for author notification.

Literary

  • Spindrift accepts essays and fictions with a maximum of 4,500 words

  • Short plays or dialogues with a maximum of 15 typed pages

  • Poetry with a maximum of 6 poems

Two typed, double-spaced copies are required for each submission, with the exception that poetry need not be double-spaced. The author’s name should NOT appear on the work. Due to volume received, literary work will not be returned.

Photography, Fine Art & 3D Art

Artwork may initially be submitted for jury review in any format. The hardcopy printout with name of the work and artist on the back of each piece is preferred. We also will need an electronic copy of the file, preferably a 300ppi Mac Tiff file on CD. Photo-quality prints or slides are also accepted. Some work may be excluded due to printing limitations. If necessary, apply a fixative and flap smudge-susceptible original art with a protective covering. Original art must be unframed with a label attached to the back of each piece, including a hardcopy print, the name, address, phone number and email address of the artist. Include an appropriately sized S.A.S.E. for return of works; otherwise, submissions should be delivered to and claimed at the address below. Any art not picked up by the first week of December becomes property of Shoreline Community College. A maximum of five (5) works per artist or photographer can be submitted. Submissions must follow guidelines to be considered.

Mail

Spindrift Art & Literary Journal
Shoreline Community College
16101 Greenwood Ave N Shoreline, WA 98133

Deliver

ART
VCT/2000 Building
Room 2001b

LIT
FOSS Building, Third Floor
Spindrift Mailbox (Humanities)


1st Place!

SpindriftThe 2009 edition of Spindrift, Shoreline Community College’s art and literary journal, has been awarded first place in a national literary magazine competition sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA).  The award is given to only those colleges who have received first place awards at regional juries.    

Spindrift has been an annual source of pride for Shoreline Community College,” said Literary Editor Lucy Weiland, who commented that the staff worked diligently to get the job done right in spite of many challenges.   

The anthology, a collaboration of works of student, faculty and regional and national contributors, has won many regional awards from CCHA in past years; in the last five years alone it has earned three first place awards and two third place awards.  The Pacific-Western Region includes Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Alaska and Hawaii. 

“Although this year, Spindrift is recognized by the Community College Humanities Association as the best community college literary magazine in the nation,” said Deborah Handrich, faculty co-advisor, “in my opinion, the award reflects all the hard work of every student involved in Spindrift in the last five years.” 

This year the judges noted several things that called attention to Shoreline’s anthology. The cover image submissions were solicited only from students and this year’s edition offered more work of first-time published students than previous editions.  “These two factors are perhaps the most important categories in the national competition,” said Handrich.  This year’s cover was designed by Sean Sherman. 

First published in 1966, not long after Shoreline opened its doors, this year marks the college’s 43rd year to publish Spindrift.  The journal is designed, edited and produced by students, and is printed on campus as a training project for the Visual Communication Technology (VCT) Program.

 “Spindrift gives the student staff a real-world opportunity as a staff person producing a magazine,” said Handrich.  “They must manage submissions from all over the nation and build a cohesive book that expresses student life and a connection to a greater community.” 

The 2009 staff included Lucy Weiland, literary editor, Kisa Nishimoto, managing editor; Ian Louthan, design and art editor; Elissa Foster, asst. art editor; and Phyllis Rae, Kelsey Toberg and Triana Collins, literary assistants.   Faculty advisors were Deborah Handrich and Christine Shafner.