Members of the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 Boards convene at PCow Because this might as well be a tradition now. At the center are next year’s supreme leaders, Audrey and Giao, who will try not to let the power go to their heads the way it went to Katherine’s. (Callie was too busy laughing to keep her from becoming the eldritch horror We all know and love.) HALF THE NEWBIES (AND YUKKI) ARE MISSING, BUT THAT’S OK. Still not a communism, still going to have a great year.
Working Title is an online literary magazine for high school writers. Named for every writer's eternal frustration, coming up with good titles, our publication was designed to be as accessible—and writer-friendly—as possible.
We take pride in accepting great work of all genres (especially longer pieces that may not find a home elsewhere), collaborating with writers over revisions, and pairing work with custom illustrations. After all, publishing with Working Title is more than just a chance to showcase your work. It's a chance to improve as a writer and reach a support network of editors who really want to see your work shine.
Our Story
We started with one writer, Kristina Gu '18, who often felt that her sci-fi short stories had no place at Lawrenceville. Her work routinely ran upwards of 3,000 words, and she couldn't imagine anything she wrote fitting the “literary” aesthetic of the publishing world. Though she won't admit it, she might also have been a little annoyed that publishing anything at Lawrenceville, from an article in The Lawrence to a newscast in L10, seemed scarily professional and hardcore as a freshman.
Rather than continuing to write fiction no one would get to read, Kristina came up with an idea for her own publication, one that would keep all the elements she loved about writing and add some special features, including an easy way to get feedback from a team of editors. She then teamed up with Katherine Xiong ’19, then co-president of the Creative Writing Club, and Working Title was born.
Our publication rests on three core ideas:
Improvement. All writers who send us their work will have access to our network of editors, who would love to sit down and workshop with you one-on-one even if your work doesn’t end up published.
Accessibility. We like to keep things as down-to-earth as possible—you’ll always be able to talk to anyone on our board, and we try to keep our workshops light-hearted and focused on growth.
Awesomeness. Part of being a writer is getting to see your work featured in the best possible light. That’s why we solicit custom illustrations for every piece we publish and make sure each piece gets its own spotlight in the issue as a whole.
Nowadays, Working Title does more than publish awesome work every term. We now team up with The Lit and Creative Writing Club to organize student workshops and sell our signature postcards and T-shirts at Parents Weekend. But we’re still dedicated to empowering our writers and artists. That’s what we’ll always be about.