H-F's Literary Magazine Receives First Place National Award

literary and visual arts magazine, Edda, was honored last month with multiple national awards from two different organizations.

Its 2010/11 issue, Hook, Line & Sinker, received "First Place with Special Merit" and "Best Variety of Work" awards from the College Point, NY-based American Scholastic Press Association and a "First Class with One Mark of Distinction" award from the Minneapolis-based National Scholastic Press Association. 

The annual publication, which features creative writing and artwork by H-F students and staff, is sponsored by H-F teachers, Sahar Mustafah and Heidi Stachulak. Chief editors of the 2010/11 edition were Rebecca Berger, a current H-F Senior and Linda Moncada, a 2011 H-F graduate. The magazine was introduced to the school in the 1961/62 school year; its name, Edda, is derived from volumes of Norse oral mythology, meaningfully connected to the school's mascot, the Viking, in tradition and spirit. It exists to be a creative voice for the students of H-F to express their broad and diverse talents.