Journal Wins National Book Award

The Sligo Journal won the 2015 Florida Book Festival Award for Compilations/Anthologies. The journal is an arts and literary publication featuring work by MC students and local poets of Takoma Park/Silver Spring. The award is a national book award that recognizes excellent writing in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, how-to, spiritual, and others. Professor Robert L. Giron is editor in chief; Dr. Michael LeBlanc and Madona Tyler LeBlanc are layout/graphic designers. Cover art for the fall 2013/spring 2014 book was by Pablo Callejo ’14.