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 2024

Editors in Chief

Xime Silva is a poet from Mexico City. Her work has been published in The Albion Review and Best American High School Writing, and has been recognized by the Poetry Society of America, the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, among others. Xime is doing well. She’ll attend Columbia University in the fall.

Zoe Lenz is a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy. She is from Mesa, Arizona. She has received a Gold Key from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for a novel about witches and a Silver Key for a novel about superheroes. She has written short stories, poetry, and novels that are too unpublished to mention. She is a member of the Girl Up Global Advisory Board. When not writing, she finds herself procrastinating.

Poetry Editors 

Mari Farrand, a senior in Creative Writing at Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan, calls the evergreen valleys of western Oregon home. Her passion is researching and worldbuilding for writing long-form fiction, along with writing poetry and short fiction. She especially loves history-and-mythology-informed literature and pushed worlds, with a touch of the unstable and surreal. 

Max Pearson is a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her work has been recognized by YoungArts and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Her work has appeared in WIREWORM, The Interlochen Review, and The Red Wheelbarrow, and is forthcoming in the YoungArts anthology. She will be attending the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in the fall, with an intended double major in English and Ojibwe Language.

Charlotte Lucas is a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy from Maryland. She has been published in Crashtest, the DePaul’sBlue Book:Best American High School Writing 2023, and The Interlochen Review. When she’s not writing, she enjoys playing with her golden retriever and watching 90’s sitcoms.

Fiction Editors

Shreya Ganguly is a fiction writer and poet. In her writing, she explores the fantastical through the fluid spaces of the human experience, often weaving nature and history within her worlds and stories. Her work has previously been published or recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, GSU’s Fledge Anthology, and Parallax Online, among others. When she is not writing, editing, or studying, she can be found reading for pleasure or conversing with trees.

Rowen Erickson is currently a junior at Interlochen Arts Academy. Attending boarding school in northern Michigan, they enjoy browsing entomology and being a creative writing major. Rowen has received Gold Keys from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and has been featured in VIBE. They have written short stories, plays, poetry, and they are dipping their toes into hybrid work.

Nonfiction Editor

Emily Pickering is a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy from Memphis, Tennessee. Her work has been published in Narrative, Rattle, Dialogist, Best American High School Writing, and elsewhere, and has been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation, the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, the Youth Poet Laureate program, the Adroit Prizes, the Hippocrates Society, and more. She will attend Columbia University in the fall.

interviews editor

Bella Rotker studies at Interlochen Arts Academy. Their work appears in JAKE, Full Mood Mag, Fifth Wheel Press, The Lumiere Review, Neologism, and Best American High School Writing, among others. When she’s not writing or fighting the patriarchy, Bella’s hanging out with friends, watching the lakes, and looking for birds.

scripts and screenplays editor

Ben Berman is a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy as a creative writing major. Next year, he is pursuing a BFA in Writing for the Screen and Television at the University of Southern California. He was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and went to the same elementary school as that one guy who wrote the musical Hairspray. Ben enjoys writing plays, doing his daily 1 mile run, and listening to Chappell Roan.

hybrid genres editor

Kaydance Rice is a writer from Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has been recognized by the Poetry Society of America, Middle West Press, Hollins University, and the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in the Taco Bell Quarterly, YoungArts Anthology, The Room, voicemail poems, and elsewhere. In her free time, Kaydance enjoys playing the viola, rambling about existentialism, and spending time with her plants. 

visual arts editors

Noah Ma is a junior creative writing major at Interlochen Arts Academy. They like safety pins and other shiny objects. 

Asher Lasky is a second-year sophomore majoring in visual arts at Interlochen Arts Academy. He is from Northern California and is a nationally exhibited artist. He has received numerous Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the Jack Troy Merit Award, and an Artistic Merit Award from the National K-12 Juried Ceramic Exhibition.

Sol Álvarez is from Nicaragua and is temporarily based in Miami, Florida. Previously, she attended Interlochen Arts Camp in 2022 and is now a first year senior at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her thesis has revolved around the political turmoil of the country of Nicaragua and how her consciousness interacts with it. Her artwork explores how interactive art makes the audience care about an issue that doesn't exactly pertain to them. Sol's artwork relies on the viewer and their responsibility to remember the atrocities of it all.