North Campus’ Creative Arts Magazine Wins Gold Crown Award

AXIS, the creative arts magazine at North Campus, has been awarded a Gold Crown Award by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in the literary magazine category. 

Winners were announced on March 15 during Columbia University’s 100th Annual Spring Convention in New York.

The honors recognizes overall excellence in student publications produced during the 2022-23 school year. 

Volume 20’s theme was reminiscence and renewal. It marks AXIS’ first gold distinction. 

“We submitted to this [competition] many times before and received the silver crown, but this is the first time receiving the gold, so it’s amazing,” said AXIS Editor-in-Chief Bianca Jules.

In other Miami Dade College publication news, Miambiance, the literary arts magazine at Kendall Campus, won their fifth Silver Crown in the general magazine category for Volume 33. It featured food as its theme. 

 “We didn’t get a crown for Volume 32, which was the first magazine I worked on as editor-in-chief, ” said Miambiance Editor-in-Chief Megan Carrion. “We got Gold Circle Individual Awards, but we didn’t get a crown, so I’m really glad that we managed to get [it] for this one.”