By: Oliver Musters

   MRHS hosts countless extracurriculars, through which students enrich their social experience and resume. While most of these clubs concentrate on activities which achieve immediate results, focus on community service, or serve no particular end goal, one stands out among its counterparts: the Literary Magazine, where members dedicate themselves to inspiring student creativity.

   “We showcase the amazing talent we have at our school..we collect written literature and any type of art…and put it in a magazine that we print out at the end of the year,” senior and Literary Magazine President Tanya Kadiyala explained.

   Until the first of February, the club will be allowing students to submit original written and artistic works. The Literary Magazine, by evaluating the submissions as a group, will form an eventual consensus of which works go into the magazine and which fail to make the cut. Being published in the magazine offers numerous benefits, as it offers students first hand experience in expressing themselves through art or stories to an audience. Nonetheless, the club’s selection criteria may be simpler than expected, because they accept the majority of entries with inoffensive subject matters.

   “[Submitting to us] is definitely a good start to getting people that want to later on focus their work to larger crowds, because not only do we publish your work, we also communicate with you and help you refine your work, so it’s good for publication. We’ve only had to decline works that were considered not school appropriate…we try to keep everything neutral,” Kadiyala remarked.

   Eager to make an impact on the school by sharing their projects, students and club members alike have expressed interest in contributing to the magazine.

   “I am considering submitting to the Literary Magazine club in order to [get] a foot in the door in terms of [public writing],” junior Sophia Kibler claimed. 

   The executive members, as much as the general members, especially early on, dedicate themselves to constructive activities which take the club that much closer to achieving the final product.

   “We’ve just been doing bookkeeping stuff, filling posters for various fundraisers, and we also made posters for submissions, discussing strategies to collect more submissions,” Kadiyala conveyed.

   Within the MRHS community, the Literary Magazine reminds the student body that their expressive voices matter, and ensures that their personal projects will be neither disregarded nor undervalued, commemorated through a collective end-of-year publication. All students interested in channeling their creative selves should send the club their projects, or otherwise join or contact the club.