Twenty-seven winners have been selected from more than 400 entries for inclusion in Tidepools 2010, the Peninsula College art and literary magazine.
The magazine is produced as an English class by Peninsula College students, with support from the Peninsula Daily News.
The contest winners, as well as other submitters, will be included in Tidepools 2010, which will be available in early June at area bookstores and at Tidepools launch events.
Tidepools has been published for 46 years, and began as a collaboration between a typing class and an English class.
The magazine’s adviser, English instructor Janet Lucas, said the number of entries submitted this year was about the same as previous years, with, as usual, most of them coming in during the week before the mid-January deadline.
“The whole last week we are inundated with entries,” Lucas said.
Editors for this year’s magazine were Jeremy Mason for fall quarter and Jennifer Frazier for winter and spring quarter, whom Lucas called her “right-hand woman.”
Mason was also the editor for the entire 2008-2009 school year.
Lucas said the magazine is produced by the literary magazine English class, which currently has a dozen students.
The winners were selected by volunteer judges with expertise in the respective fields.
Judges were Kate Goschen, Bruce Hattendorf and Jordan Hartt for adult poetry; Matt Teorey, Suzanne Zalokar and David Kent for adult prose; Rick Ross, Mia Boster and Ernst Ulrich for adult and Peninsula College student photography; Bob Stokes, Jake Seniuk and Michelle Biery for adult and Peninsula College student fine art; Jim Fisher, Barbara Blackie and an anonymous judge for Peninsula College student writing.
In youth categories, Tara Demers, Gary Melendy and Beth Hover judged writing and Wendy Shea, Andrea Motyka and Leslie Anderson judged art and photography.
Lucas said digital art was a new category this year, meant to address the divide been digital design and art photography.
“It’s a sticky area,” Lucas said. “What is the difference between digital art and a photo that’s been Photoshopped?”
What they were looking for was art that was more digitally created from a blank canvas rather than a manipulated photograph.
The category didn’t draw many takers in its debut, with only one student entry and two adults.
Winners are awarded cash prizes ranging from $25 for youth entries up to $100 for first place in the adult categories.
