The 2013 NSPA Yearbook Pacemaker contest, which recognizes high school literary magazines published during the 2012-13 school year, yielded 47 total entries from around the country. A team of professionals at Milkweed Editions selected 10 finalists. The finalists are:

Connotations
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Ark.

Seeds
Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, Fla.

Rapier
Marist School, Atlanta, Ga.

New Pennies
De Kalb High School, De Kalb, Ill.

Spectator
Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda, Md.

Colophon
Towson High School, Towson, Md.

The WORKS
Clayton High School, Clayton, Mo.

Roars and Whispers
Providence Senior High School, Charlotte, N.C.

PenSoul
Bismarck High School, Bismarck, N.D.

Vibrato
Hockaday School, Dallas, Texas

Click here to visit the finalists page.

The Pacemaker winners will be announced for the first time at the Spring JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in San Diego, April 10-13. Registration is now open online at studentpress.org/nspa.

Online registration for the convention is now open http://register.studentpress.org/sandiego2014/

Contact Grace Christiansen, NSPA contest and critique coordinator, grace@studentpress.org