2014 Awards
American Scholastic Press Association has awarded Progenitor with its highest ranking, First Place with Special Merit, and its cover photo by ACC student Douglas Hutaff with Outstanding Photograph.
"Progenitor is a model for those up-and-coming magazines and an inspiration for those magazines that haven't quite aced the necessary skills." --Magazine Judge, ASPS, 2014
Progenitor also received 2nd place in the small college division, for the Southwestern Division of the Community College Humanities Association’s 2014 Literary Magazine Competition. Progenitor's cover art, by ACC student Douglas Hutoff, The Master’s Hand, was awarded an honorable mention for the Southwestern Division as well.
2013 Awards
Progenitor has received a First Place with Special Merit award in the American Scholastic Press Association's 2013 magazine competition. ACC student, Joyce McClain, has received Best Photograph for "Belize," published in our 2013 Progenitor. Congratulations, Joyce.
The American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA) Magazine Judge for the 2013 annual magazine competition: "Progenitor is an amazing publication! You have mastered not only the elements of a good publication (staffbox, table of contents, etc.) but you have also published excellent work from your school population. Progenitor is a model for those up-and-coming magazines and inspiration for those magazines that haven't quite aced the necessary skills."
2012 Awards
The Community College Humanities Association awarded Progenitor 2012 second place for its Annual Literary Magazine Competition in the Southwestern division.
2012 Magazine Pacemaker Finalist Award November 3rd 2012. In recognition of general excellence and outstanding achievement by a college magazine in a National Competition.
American Scholastic Press Association 1st Place Award Fall 2012
Past Awards
2007 Magazine Pacemaker Finalist Award October 27th 2007. In recognition of general excellence and outstanding achievement by a college magazine in a National Competition.
Associated Collegiate Press Best of Show Award Honorable Mention October 28th 2007
Associated Collegiate Press Best of Show Award 3rd Place Magazine Competition November 12th 2000
Rocky Mountain Collegiate Media Association Frist Place to ACC in category of Literary Magazine Best Overall March 14th 1998
Associated Collegiate Press Best of Show Award 2nd Place November 2nd, 1997
Community College Humanities Association Literary Magazine Competition 1st Place Winner Southwestern Division 1997
Associated Collegiate Press Best of Show Award 4th Place November 6th 1994
Associated Collegiate Press Best of Show Award 5th Place November 1st, 1992
1990 Computer Assisted Publishing Trendsetter Award competition for Magazine Full Spread. Sponsored by Associated Collegiate Press 1st Place. May 1990 Honors Casey Pike ACC
Progenitor Awards