For many years, the annual Soundings magazine has been a forum for students to have their artwork, photography and writing published. This year’s editors, juniors Michelle Cen and Ashley Chen, hope to improve Soundings by including a greater diversity of submissions.

Cen said one of the main problems with last year’s edition of the magazine was too much representation of single artists or writers.

“This year, we really want to represent as much of the school as possible and include as many people as possible, so more unique voices are exposed through Soundings,” Cen said.

Soundings also hopes to gain more submissions through increased advertising.

In addition, the editors’ goal is for Soundings to be well reviewed by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA), which Soundings has not been submitted to in the past few years.

This year’s staff consists of seniors Rachel Hull and Linus Lu, juniors Katherine Liu, Ingrid Pan and Luke Salin and sophomore Kevin Chow. Students interested in joining the 2015-2016 staff should contact Cen or Chen.

“I hope that this year Soundings becomes much more diverse,” Cen said, “and I hope that the content will be more interesting and relevant to high school students.”

Submissions should be sent to [email protected] and include the author or artist’s name and grade and the title of the work. The deadline is Feb. 1.