PRESS RELEASE
Battle Literary Arts Review Magazine (BLARM) has been recognized as Superior by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
This year, schools in 44 states, Washington, D.C., and six countries nominated 456 student magazines. Magazines from middle school, high school, and higher education were welcomed for the 2025 contest.
Kaitlyn Hicks, senior, is the current Executive Editor of BLARM and has been a member of the publication for four years. She worked on last year’s award-winning issue, Multitudes.
“I’m really hoping that we can score even higher this year and that the good press from it is going to encourage more people to submit” said Hicks. “I always love to see it when it gets overwhelming when there’s so many people, but I love that because it means we get to have so much variety, and we get to hear from all of the students in the school, and it’s really cool to see all of their different perspectives.”
The REALM program publicly recognizes excellent literary magazines produced by students with the support of their teachers. REALM is designed to encourage all schools to develop literary magazines that celebrate the art and craft of writing. Schools in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, US territories, Canada, and American schools abroad are eligible to nominate magazines.
For more information about the REALM Program, please visit: https://ncte.org/awards/program-to-recognize-in-student-literary-magazines/.
For more information about BLARM, including submitting to the publication, please visit https://spartanspearhead.com/blarm/
Neaya Major contributed to this press release.