ABOUT US

The Interlochen Review is edited and produced every spring by students in Interlochen Arts Academy’s Literary Publications class. It was established by Jack Driscoll in 1976 as a print journal, but since 2012 has been published exclusively online.

The Interlochen Review showcases work from Creative Writing, Film and New Media, Singer-Songwriters, and Visual Arts majors at Interlochen, alongside the work of high school writers and artists around the world. Our mission is to exhibit work that is passionate, skillful, and innovative in its approach to the arts. We will be accepting submissions January 12th-February 18th, 2024.  

To submit, please visit our Submittable.

Creative Writing at Interlochen

The Creative Writing program at Interlochen Arts Academy offers a curriculum designed to help young writers cultivate their talents, develop their imaginations and broaden their command of the writer’s craft at all levels. Fiction, nonfiction and poetry workshops form the core of the program, and students choose from a variety of electives in other genres. Through individualized mentorship and intensive workshops, students hone their unique voices and visions and leave the program with a portfolio of carefully revised work in a variety of genres. To get a behind-the-scenes look at daily life in the Writing House, visit us on instagram. 

MASTHEAD: ISSUE 2023

Editors in Chiefs

Emily Pickering is a junior at Interlochen Arts Academy from Memphis, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in Rattle, DIALOGIST, and elsewhere, and has been nationally recognized by the YoungArts Foundation, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the Youth Poet Laureate program.

Kaydance Rice is a writer from Grand Rapids, Michigan currently attending Interlochen Arts Academy. Kaydance is the recipient of several regional and national awards from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in the Taco Bell Quarterly, YoungArts Anthology, Cargoes, voicemail poems, and Full Mood Magazine. In her free time, Kaydance enjoys playing the viola, rambling about hybrid poems, and spending time with her plants.

Poetry Editors 

Sophie Bernik is a junior creative writing major at Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan. Her work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Hobart, Identity Theory, and The Kenyon Review. She was in the top 0.5% of Florence and the Machine listeners in 2022 and owns 7 leather jackets.

Greer Engle-Roe is a senior in high school, attending Interlochen Arts Academy with a focus on creative writing. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Neologism and JUST POETRY. Along with poetry, they spend many hours watching soccer, building models, and painting miniatures.

Xime Silva is a junior at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her work has been recognized by the Poetry Society of America and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Fiction Editors

Abigail Conklin is a senior Creative Writer at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and the Interlochen Review. Originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, Abigail likes to spend too much time in nature and makes it everyone’s problem. 

Elizabeth Keller is a senior majoring in creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy, originally from Vancouver, Washington. She is a YoungArts Finalist in writing, and her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, 1455 Literary Arts, and the Richard Benvenuto High School Poetry Competition. Her work has been published in the YoungArts Anthology+ Catalogue, Crashtest, and The Interlochen Review. In her free time, she enjoys going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, trying to play the penny whistle, and being ambushed by her cats.

Noah Ma is currently a sophomore at Interlochen Arts Academy, where they major in creative writing. Their work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. When not writing, they spend their time drawing, scrubbing hair dye out of their shower, and cutting up their favorite shirts into strangely shaped pieces.

Nonfiction Editors

Ben Berman is a junior creative writing major at Interlochen Arts Academy. He is from Baltimore, Maryland. His work has appeared in Stagedoor Manor’s Dramafest and has been recognized by the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. Ben can usually be found doing his daily 15 minutes of yoga.

Anna Graef is from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She will attend Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York this fall.

interviews editors

Tyler Penfold is a junior at Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, MI, and is a creative writing major. He has been published in GSU's literary journal Fledge.

Bella Rotker (they/she) studies creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy. She was born in Venezuela and grew up in Miami. Bella is a Scholastic Art & Writing National Award Winner and American Voices Nominee and has received recognition from the YoungArts Foundation. Their work appears or is forthcoming in the Lumiere Review, Full Mood Mag, Spoonie Press, and DePaul’s Blue Book: Best American High School Writing, among others. When she’s not writing or fighting the patriarchy, Bella’s hanging out with her friends, watching the lakes, and looking for birds.

scripts and screenplays editor

Leo Fishman Janowitz is from New York City. His fiction and playwriting pieces have received recognition from the Eugene O'Neill Society, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and The Red Wheelbarrow. He will attend Boston University in Spring of 2024.

hybrid genres editor

Mackerel Smith is a junior at Interlochen Arts Academy from Detroit, Michigan. They have won a Gold and two Silver keys in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. They enjoy writing fiction works about marine biology, and strangely intimate yet mundane poems.

visual arts editor

Rowen Erickson is currently a sophomore at Interlochen Arts Academy, who often finds themself intrigued with implications. Attending boarding school in northern Michigan, they enjoy complaining about the cold and being a creative writing major. Implications tend to be a focus in their writing, in their work and more than often in oranges. Rowen has received a Gold Key from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, due to a poem about housewives. They have written short stories, plays, poetry, and they are dipping their toes into hybrid work.