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The Rev is now accepting submissions for the 2025 edition of the magazine.
Please submit your work here!
Questions? Contact Laurel Peterson – [email protected].
Deadline is November 29, 2024.
The Rev
The Rev is a student-run creative literary arts magazine formerly known as The Russell Sage College Review. For the last four years, The Rev has been produced in collaboration with the CreativityUnleashed Publishing, a not-for-profit organization based in London, UK. It is supported by the Sage libraries and funded by Russell Sage College’s Carol Ann Donahue Endowed Fund.
The Rev is also published as part of the Russell Sage English, Writing and Culture program. EWC is an innovative program in which students engage with diverse literatures and cultures, learn about the ways that writing shapes the world, and develop their own powerful voices. For more information, check out the EWC program details here.
Many students from this department serve as editors on the magazine, or are published within its pages.
We have also been privileged to work with Questar III’s New Visions Visual and Performing Arts program for the second year in a row. High school students from a range of local tri-city schools joined us for our flat-plan and lay out meetings to learn the processes of editorializing a magazine. Here is artwork from one of their featured creatives: You Are What You Eat by Peyton Taylor.
Integrated within the upcoming edition of the magazine is a middle/high school student competition run in partnership with Aralia Education. We would like to congratulate Yitong Li for winning the first place prize out of the 75 submissions received. Her piece is called: The Environmental Odyssey of Young Carlos Roberto Mejia. Her work was published alongside 13 other incredible writing pieces that we hope you will enjoy.
Several pieces were also long listed and published on our blog. Visit www.creativity-unleashed.org to see those pieces.
Finally, we also accepted some submissions from a sixth form college in Tottenham, London – students who work on a literary arts magazine called The Phoenix. These creatives are denoted in the magazine by LAET – London Academy of Excellence, Tottenham.
Information regarding our 2024 magazine launch, which will be a hybrid both in person and online, will be sent out soon. You can also sign up for the CU newsletter for updates at the bottom of our website: www.creativity-unleashed.org.
2024 Published Creatives
The full list of short-listed creatives and their pieces to be published in this year’s print edition of the magazine is as follows:
| Creative | Title | Category | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alina, Xiai Pang | The Peacocks to the South East Fly 孔雀东南飞 | Poetry | George School |
| Alvin Su | The Promise of the Rainbow | Short Fiction | Edward Hynes Charter School – Lakeview |
| Amanda Bastiani | Ford Joy | Photography | Russell Sage College |
| Amy Pass | Behind the Glass; End of a Journey | Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Amy Tran | From You Know Who | Flash Fiction | London Academy of Excellence Tottenham |
| Andreea Pavel | A Lost Bet | Poetry | CreativityUnleashed |
| Angelina Wang | Defining What it Means to be Human | Poetry | Phillips Exeter Academy |
| Anna Campbell | Dizzying Daydream; Ditzy Dreams | Illustration | Russell Sage College |
| Aryanna Zeigler | big eyes; the curse | Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Ashley Busby | Study of Black Cave; In Memory of (letting go) | Acrylic & Gesso | Russell Sage College |
| Ashley Wei | When Enough is Enough | Flash Fiction | International School of Beijing |
| Ayesha Khan | You, forevermore | Poetry | London Academy of Excellence Tottenham |
| Bailey Bates | Morning Stroll Through the Market | Illustration | Russell Sage College |
| Cara Michaels | self-destruction | Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Carlo Rossi Occeño | Paralysis; Josuke’s Rhapsody | Graphite Illustration | Russell Sage College |
| Cassandra Bond | Windham Peak When the Block Wears Off | Acrylic on Canvas | Russell Sage College |
| Chantal Russo | Pistachio | Painting | Russell Sage College |
| Chloe DeSilva | A Place For Broken Souls | Illustration | CreativityUnleashed |
| Christopher Bean | The Herald | Flash Fiction | CreativityUnleashed |
| Coco Song | Primordial Goop Things That Happen at Panda Express | Digital Illustration Poetry | Emma Willard School |
| Cynthea Wang | At Sea/Rubber Ducks | Poetry | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Dalton Guan | Born the Resilient Fire | Short Fiction | George School |
| Davis Snyder | Realm Back and Again | Digital Artwork Photography | Russell Sage College |
| Dylan Scherillo | The Crumbs of a Has-Been | Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Emily Boehm | Past Tense | Flash Fiction | CreativityUnleashed |
| Emma Wrieden | Trapped | Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Ethan Alcee | Dash; Silence; Sleeping Beauty | Photography Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Grace Thurber | Jean Flower Bouquet | Fabric Art | New Visions |
| Hannah Brigida Infantado | Praying Hands; Phantom Architecture | Painting | Russell Sage College |
| Heather Gilchrist | Wonderland | Poetry | CreativityUnleashed |
| Jacob Willwerth | Future in the Face of a Daffodil | Mixed Media | Russell Sage College |
| Jashton Gieser | The Fiddler | Illustration | Russell Sage College |
| Jessica Kamimbaya | Originally | Poetry | London Academy of Excellence Tottenham |
| Jingzhi Miao | Particles | Poetry | Rumsey hall school |
| Jonathan Reese | Apple Cider | Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Kami Perkins | Repent Paradise | Acrylic Painting | Russell Sage College |
| Kathleen Muller | Beautiful Day in NY | Photography | Russell Sage College |
| Kathleen Muller | Just Listen | Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Katrin Ramsey | The Mammogram | Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Kaylee Da | A Bird’s First Sunrise | Rectory School | |
| Krissy Yihan Zhu | The American Dream in 2023: From the Eyes of a Chinese Immigrant | Opinion Editorial | Rumsey Hall School |
| Laurel Petersen | Alien Pets for Sale; Alien Food Sampler | Illustration | Russell Sage College |
| Leo Feng | Solstice Serenade | Painting | Eaglebrook School |
| Lilia Cauchemez-Turmanidze | Woven Words | Poetry | London Academy of Excellence Tottenham |
| Lily Strattman | What Anxiety Feels Like | Pastel Drawing | New Visions |
| Lisa Schieffelin | Old Eyes, New Dog, Jax in Pics 1 | Acrylic Painting | Russell Sage College |
| Mackenzie Gorman | The Royal; The Sunshine | Digital Illustration | Russell Sage College |
| Maddy Delaney | Art Room Chronicles | Photography | New Visions |
| Madelyn Cotterill | The Calmness of Dance | Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Maverick Douglas | The Anatomy of a Loved One’s Hands | Fan Fiction | Russell Sage College |
| Maysoon Sheikh | Dear Believer | Poetry | CreativityUnleashed |
| Melody Zhao | Locked in a Bootstrap Paradox Jar | Poetry | Deerfield Academy |
| Michael Groissl | Bike, Shibuya – Tokyo, Japan | Photography | Russell Sage College |
| Nancy Wang | The Missing Half of The Portrait | Flash Fiction | The Ethel Walker School |
| Neha Nair | The Feeling in the Air | Poetry | London Academy of Excellence Tottenham |
| Neily Chen | Dancing for an Awakening: How One Dance Theatre Troupe is Innovating to Save the Planet | Creative Nonfiction | Huili School Shanghai |
| Newton Wilk | A Hike Heartbreak | Photography Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Ozge Erdur | Pretty Bird | Poetry | CreativityUnleashed |
| Peyton Taylor | You Are What You Eat | Alcohol Markers | New Visions |
| Rachael DeMars | The Things They Carried | Video | New Visions |
| Ramasoj Williams | Welcome to the Yearbook Club | Photography | Russell Sage College |
| Satya Groff | The Things They Carried; The Yellow Wallpaper; Loyalty | Painting | New Visions |
| Soma De | Colors of Autumn | Painting | Russell Sage College |
| Susannah Schools | A Potential Poem | Poetry | Russell Sage College |
| Takudzwa Edwards | 4 Shapes | Illustration | CreativityUnleashed |
| Tracy Gilbert | This is Your Brain During a Trauma Treatment | Ink on Paper | Russell Sage College |
| Tseng Jo Han | The Colors of Silence | Poetry | Victoria Academy |
| Vanessa Cheung | Mellified | Poetry | Hong Kong International School |
| Victoria Harris | Little Moth | Digital Illustration | Russell Sage College |
| Xiaoya Du | La Transformation | Flash Fiction | The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China |
| Yitong Li | The Environmental Odyssey of Young Carlos Roberto Mejia | Painting | Keystone Academy |
| Yuhan Wu | A Legacy of Light | Short Fiction | Middlesex School |
| Yuki Wen | Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Celebration: When Political Correctness Misses the Point | Opinion Editorial | Bishop Strachan School, Ontario |
Our long-listed creatives can be found here: https://www.creativity-unleashed.org/our-blog.
Thank you to all of the creatives who submitted their incredible artwork to us! We look forward to hearing from you next year when we begin preparations on the 2025 edition.
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If you are interested in joining The Rev editorial team in the 2025 academic year, please email Adjunct Professor Angie Smith: [email protected] for further information.
