CONWAY, Ark. (February 4, 2016) – The Hendrix
College student literary magazine the Aonian
recently won first place for literary magazine in the
2016 Southern Literary Festival Undergraduate Writing Contest.
“The Aonian strives to provide a place where Hendrix
students’ best creative work, whether it is literary or visual art,
can be recognized and shared with the rest of our campus and further
foster our diverse creative community,” said Hendrix senior Carl Napolitano ’16,
who served as last year’s Aonian editor-in-chief.
“Because the magazine is funded through student senate and is entirely student
run in addition to publishing exclusively student work, it truly is a
collective effort of our student body and I'm really proud and happy to have
all that hard work recognized.”
“The Aonian
is a window into the extraordinary creative work being produced by Hendrix
students in both the visual and literary arts,” said English
professor Jessica Jacobs, who served as last
year's faculty advisor and is the
Hendrix-Murphy Writer-in-Residence at Hendrix. “And this most recent issue of
the Aonian is especially impressive
in both its content and form, something of which the staff and Carl Napolitano,
their fearless leader, should be especially proud.”
About
Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college
in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with the United Methodist
Church since 1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges and is nationally
recognized in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings for academic
quality, community, innovation, and value. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.