The Wright Side Releases Their Annual Magazine

The Wright Side released their 2025 literary magazine at their annual release party on Thursday, a magazine that features visual art and creative writing from students. The party featured an open mic where people shared their art, poetry, and music. The theme for this year was “Warped Nostalgia." (When interviewing the Editor-in-Chief of Warped Nostalgia Gemma Ffrench and the new Editor-in-Chief Nathan Madden, who designed the cover of Warped Nostalgia and who will be in charge of the next edition. )

“It’s exactly how I envisioned it,” said Nathan Madden, the new editor in chief of the Wright Side who helped design the logo for "Warped Nostalgia." Madden said, “I’m excited to be taking head on the next one. We think outside the box a lot , we go really far with the page design, each page has a lot of thought put into it.”

Ffrench also mentioned that a big thing they were really proud of was combining the written pieces with the visual pieces. Since the magazine has so much variety it took a lot of time and effort to make it right.

“Finally having the artist who submitted their art to the magazine finally get an actual copy of it, to see it revealed, to hold it in their hands, because outside from the faculty and team members who made the actual thing this is the first time it has been released and seen by the school, I think that's the most important part,” said Ffrench.

First year student Micheal Simale, said “I think everyone that collabed did a really good job, it was really impressive.” The Wright Side earned   5th place for literary art magazines at the ACP Mega Workshop in Minneapolis in July. There was a great pride that could be felt from the members regarding the event and magazine. The magazine includes oil paintings, digital art, poetry about love and screenplays.

The advisor of the club Vincent Bruckert said “This team, because of its experience I had high expectations for them. Every step of the way they knew what those expectations were.” He talked about how he saw big developments happen within the team and how they took advantage of the tight-knit community at Wright.

Bruckert is stepping down from the advisor role this semester after 20 years of being the advisor of the club. Carlos Carmona, a Loyola student and Wright College alum who was an editor and graphic designer of "Warped Nostalgia", said, “I was more involved than I thought I was going to be with the graphic design.” Carmona claimed that out of all the five previous editions of the magazine Warped Nostalgia is "one of the more unique ones, it’ll stand up to the test of time.” 

Carlos Carmona showcases student artwork at the Wright Side Release Party. Photo Credit: Kyle Chmielowski