PORT ANGELES — Sarah Lindquist of Port Angeles, Peninsula College Buccaneer photo and online editor, has been awarded three major student journalism prizes this spring.
Lindquist got a first-place 2012 Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists in Region 10 for her editorial cartooning in the small school division (fewer than 5,000 students).
She also won first- and third-place awards in the student division for graphic design illustration from the Washington Press Association.
SPJ is a professional organization that includes broadcast, print and online journalists; journalism educators; and students interested in journalism as a career.
Region 10 includes the states of Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana.
The Washington Press Association is an organization of professional communicators that includes print and online journalists and public relations practitioners as well as students in these fields.
Lindquist is in her second year of journalistic studies at Peninsula College and plans to go to a four-year college once she completes her associate degree.
Although she enjoys journalism, she said, she is considering attending film school for cinematography and screenplay writing.
Career plans
Career plans include working for a nature magazine and, she hopes eventually, either National Geographic or the BBC.
Outside of journalism, she devotes her time to nature photography, “birds mostly,” she said, and has won awards for her work, including placing first in the student photography category in the Tidepools 2013 competition.
In 2012, she captured second place in the same Tidepools category, won a third-place ribbon at the Clallam County Fair and took the President’s Merit Award at the Peninsula College Student Art Show.
In addition to photography, Lindquist also has an interest in art, mostly surrealistic paintings.
One of them received an honorable mention at the 2012 Peninsula College Student Art Show.
She is also interested in working in clay and plans to explore the medium more fully in Peninsula College’s Design 103 class next fall.
Lindquist is a member of the Peninsula College Creative Writing Club.
One of her current projects is the writing of a science fiction novel, which she hopes to complete this summer and publish independently.
