MEGAN NECOCHEA

Megan is an undergraduate student at Whitworth University pursuing her Bachelor’s in English. She is the editor-in-chief of Script Magazine and the nonfiction editor of Rock and Sling. Her short story “Chronic” was published in the recent issue of Scribendi.

Issue 34: Sustaining a Literary Magazine

Literary magazines, as publications, are called ephemeral, short lived, created to vanish. Script, Whitworth University’s literary magazine, has lasted steadily since 1987. However, the process of editing and producing the magazine has been a difficult process since 2020, when the connection between each year’s editor was severed. I wanted to reorganize the system around Script to better support editors in both the acquisition and production process. This year’s Script team is redesigning our process in order to leave the next editors confident and able to do their work. The Rebirth Issue of Script and the process of producing was focused on preserving the process as a guide for future editors as well as a process that will prepare editors of the next issue to take over the magazine.