Hailey Creason

Hailey Creason, student at Seaman High School, is the Head Editor of the Radljost Literary Magazine. She was born in 2005 and ever since the early years of the 2000’s and 2010’s, writing had been an ultimate passion for her. Although writing fascinates her, reading hasn’t always been on the list of love. She hated reading in her early years and while that hatred diminished, she still can’t force herself to finish a book that holds no interest in her. Her favorite book is “To Drink Coffee With A Ghost” by Amanda Lovelace. She spent years figuring out what she wanted to do with her life and it finally came to her that going into editing and publishing was the end goal for her career.

Note: Hailey’s secret style is including as much imagery as possible to convey interpretation in the works she’s written. She prefers leaving it up to the reader.

Anthony Defilipis

Anthony Defilipis is a young man that had a frightfully boring uprising. From a young age he had disliked many of the popular sports most of the kids had played. Anthony was initially about 200 pounds until the age of 15. The age 15 was a strong year for him for self succession. Before 14 he was a nerd type of kid. He was the type of kid to bring pokemon cards to school and gloat to his classmates about having a foil charizard that he bought off of the internet. He would get competitive over miniscule card games and get really into different nerd games like Yugioh, Dungeons and Dragons, and obviously Pokemon. His interests didn’t change when he was 15 but his weight and strength did. Before 15 he was the stereotypical fat nerd guy that many people wouldn’t take seriously. When he became 15 he started to exercise and starve himself daily. He was sick of being fat and being pushed around, so he was dedicated to change as a person and grow a spine. He lost 70 pounds by going through hell on the daily. He started to focus more on himself. He focused on the parts of him that even he himself didn’t understand. The motivation behind his thoughts, the reason behind his actions. He would eventually understand his own morals as well as the perspectives of others. He would still be the card game nerd at heart but he got into a boxing class. You could call it a metamorphosis.

Poetry Editor

London Richardson

London Richardson is a junior at Seaman High School. Along with Ivy Shove, London is our staff poetry editor for Raðljóst. Some of London’s hobbies include creative writing and reading. She believes that writing is a wonderful way to express your ideas and feelings towards things you care about!

Johnathan Posch

Johnathan Posch; a lazy bastard in sheep's clothing. Readers should be advised of what they write because it can be considered graphic. Their favorite book is Frankenstein And to quote a famous philosopher, John Mulvany once said “Percentage-wise, it is 100% easier to not do things.” And some things here are their fault.

Fiction Editor

Emily Nei

Emily Rae Nei is one of the fiction editors of the Raðljóst literary magazine at Seaman High School. She is a junior slowly making their way through high school with their sanity intact. They don’t know what they want to do with her life, but she wants to keep writing for a hobby at least.

Cassandra Milner

She plans to become a Librarian. She’s not a people person; people are judgy.

“Sometimes, people would say ‘What do you think you’re doing?’ But that just meant ‘Stop.’ They didn’t actually wanna know my thought process.” -John Mulaney

Sagan Senne

Sagan Senne is a sophomore at Seaman High School. She is an editor with Radljost Literature Magazine. Sagan does not plan to go anywhere with her writing career, but she does enjoy writing poetry in her free time. Reading and composing poetry is important to Sagan because it allows her to express her true self without any judgment.

Non-Fiction Editor

Brady Mack

My name is Brady Mack I am 15 years old and like many things. One of the things I like is watching good shows on Netflix, like breaking bad. And others like that but there are shows that I like, like outer banks. I like these shows cause I can watch them when I'm bored or even if I'm not.

Logan Shaw

I was born on November 15, 2006 in Topeka, Kansas I am currently 16 years old. When I was younger I attended Logan Elementary school. Early days were always fun and I had a good time in Elementary, made a lot of friends and built some great relationships with people. I went to middle school at Seaman and expanded my friendships and met some really cool people.

Luke Clifton

Luke Clifton is a senior staff member at Radljóst literary magazine. He lives in Topeka, Kansas, and plans on attaining an English degree from Kansas State university.

Art Editor

Amaris Daniels

I’m Amaris Daniels and I have no idea what I’m doing but to quote one of the greatest minds of this century “First off, get out of here with your facts.”- John Mulaney.

Tracy McNeil

Hiya I'm the lit mag’s Art editor my name is Tracy McNeil but you can just call me Lynn. I’m a senior this year thankfully but I'm excited to help with this project and share some of my own work with everyone else.

Layout Editor

Carly Bond

Carly Bond is a senior staff member of Raðljóst. She lives in Kansas and spends most evenings reading at home. Carly plans on attending Kansas State University in the fall and obtaining a degree in English.

Tayla Killman

Tayla Killman is a sophomore at Seaman High School. She plans to continue to improve her writing and share different stories. Most pieces that she has written aren’t based on true events and are for entertainment. The pieces that are based on true events can be twisted into something that is more entertaining for others to enjoy or get engaged in. She likes to talk to different people and get to know others. She tries to be nice to everyone and not make an opinion about others until she gets to know them better. Before graduating high school she wants to improve her writing skills and be able to write about different topics or scenarios.

Xavier Lutterman

My name is Xavier Lutterman, and I was born on January 9, 2007. Logan Elementary was my elementary school, and Rossville Jr/Sr. High was my middle school for 7th grade. I returned to the Seaman District in eighth grade and am now a sophomore at SHS. I'm 16 years old. I did Creative Writing with my friends, which was a lot of fun, and then I came back for Creative Writing II.

Marketer

Anna Becker

Anna Becker is a sophomore at Seaman High School. She participates in cross country, basketball, soccer and track. She is also a member of STUCO and Key Club. She enjoys spending time outside with her family and friends. Some of her hobbies include fishing, golf, writing, and spikeball. Anna has a bright personality and lots of energy!

Sponsor

Mr. Collins

Tim Collins graduated from Ottawa University with a degree in English and then taught at Topeka West High School for twelve years. After leaving teaching for Washburn University, Tim returned to the classroom in 2016 as an English teacher at Seaman High School.

Describing himself as a poetic philosopher, Tim enjoys reading, writing, walking the dogs at all hours of the day, and star-filled nights.