Wesleyan publishes the 2022-2023 Literary Magazine
Led by an eight-person team of students, the 2022-2023 Literary Magazine was recently published, and it features 148 pages of creative writing and artwork by Wesleyan high school students.
Unlike the high school newspaper and yearbook, there is no class designated to the creation of the magazine, but rather the student-led Literary Magazine staff meets weekly during high school club time.
“During this time, the staff decides what our next prompt should be and reads through submissions, grading them using a rubric to determine if the works represent the best of Wesleyan’s creative ability,” describes senior Caroline Croley, editor-in-chief. “On our Saturday workday, we layout all the submissions using InDesign. All this hard work culminates at the end of every year in April with the magazine being sent off to the printer and published for all the high school to see.”
Editors are responsible for determining and upholding the theme of the magazine. As editor-in-chief, Croley helped the staff organize the project schedule, determining due dates for submissions and dreaming up examples of what students might write about and create for various prompts. Senior Claire Wyatt served as the copy editor and the art & layout editor for this year. She picked out the fonts for each section and helped design the front cover. Senior RJ Devlin served as the selections editor, which means he led the team that grades submissions. The public relations editor Izabelle-Antoinette Mensah ‘26 asked the high school to submit section prompts: morning, daytime, afternoon, and nighttime.
“We were all asked to bring ideas as to what the new theme could be at the beginning of the year,” states Croley. “Claire and I had been brainstorming since last spring, and we presented the idea of a journey through a day. However, we all felt it was still missing something and it was Claire who brought the nuanced interpretation that this journey through a day could also have a double meaning of a walk through a person’s life.”
Way to go, Literary Magazine staff, and if you haven’t already, be sure to check out the 2022-2023 Wesleyan Literary Magazine here.
