About The Millpond Review
Welcome to The Millpond Review
The Millpond Review is a literary magazine based in Sumter, SC at the University of South Carolina Sumter. It features prose, poetry, and photography, and hosts the Sumter Spring Poetry Contest for young poets, as well as a yearly essay contest for students in ENGL 101 and 102 at USC Sumter. The main goals of the magazine are to attract submissions, grow the audience, and showcase undergraduate work. We aim to provide a platform for emerging writers and artists to share their creativity and unique perspectives. Our mission is to foster a community of literary enthusiasts and support the literary arts.
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Managing Editor: Zoe Stewart | She/Her
Zoe Stewart is a UofSC Sumter student from Sumter, South Carolina. She once won the best writer award in her 7th grade year and twice published in two issues of “Live Poets of NJ.” She enjoys both to read and to watch movies (Little Miss Sunshine and Memoir of a Snail are her current favorites) or tv shows in her free time. She appreciates the hints of people that they leave in their art when they create pieces.
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Poetry Editor: Kelsie Starks (she/her).
Kelsie doesn’t see writing as a tool but to express oneself—turning thoughts and emotions into words. It allows people to share pieces of who they are. She writes freeform poetry and fictional stories, using them as an outlet for creativity and self-reflection.
Kelsie is also a total book lover. She enjoys urban fiction, contemporary and classic fiction, poetry, thrillers, suspense, romance, religious literature, and even the occasional nonfiction book. Right now, she’s reading Always Mine by Lauren Pavlov and, like always, getting completely lost in the story.
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Fiction Editor: Zoe’ DeLavan {she/her}
Zoe’ is from Sumter, South Carolina and has resided here her entire life. She consumes all kinds of media, whether it be sitcoms such as It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia or fantasy novels. She’s not very picky! One thing Zoe’ appreciates about art is that it is subjective. Whether it be a painting, a poem, a film, or anything of the sort, it all depends on the person creating it and those who view it.
Photography Editor and Design Director: Isabella Shealy
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Isabella is a student at USC Sumter from Elgin, South Carolina. Her favorite form of media is animation because of the amount of love and care that goes into creating it. Love and care is also the thing I appreciate most about art or writing. If you put your heart and soul into it, it will touch an audience!
Readers: Isabella Shealy, Willow Hairston, Joe Lewis, Sean Delia, Lizzy Thode
Design Team: Isabella Shealy, Sean Delia, Willow Hairston, Eaven Rebel, Lizzy Thode, Sunny Hill
