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By MARK SCOLFORO
Rappahannock Newa Staff Writer
In a few more weeks the staff of Wakefield’s literary magazine, The Talisman, will complete the 11th issue of the publication, and if history - is any barometer, they could well expect an avalanche of national awards to follow.
The Talisman, student-run, written and drawn by students and distributed to Wakefield students, staff and alumni, has dominated the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and Southern Interscholastic Press Association competitions since its initial first-place award from Columbia in 1983.
The magazine, which consists of 60 pages of student artwork, fiction, poetry and (rarely) non-fiction, takes the small staff “literally hundreds and hundreds of hours” every year, according to English teacher Lee Buratti, the magazine’s advisor.
Senior Lee Daugherty, the magazine’s editor (and a National Merit Finalist), said the process begins in the fall, when writing from English classes and other student sources begins coming in.
“We do very little except the writing during the fall,” said Miss Daugherty. Many on the magazine’s staff take the school’s publications class, taught by Tutt Stapp-Harris.
Students and teachers make submissions to a box in the office, after which they are cataloged and assigned a number so that the staff can judge them blindly, a new innovation this year.
The staff makes duplicates, reads the submissions, then gets together
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