The Greenspring Review Release Party

By: Charlotte Martin 

May 8th, 2026

It was 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 8, and the Lynn Duncan Room in Rockland Hall was beginning to fill with students as they gathered to celebrate the release of the spring issue of The Greenspring Review. Staff members and guests from English 256 spent the evening hanging out, playing games, listening to readings from the issue, and finding out who would be leading GSR next year as most of the current leadership will graduate this year.

The night started casually with a game of Cards Against Humanity. At first, though, nobody seemed to play the game correctly. Instead, players randomly picked black cards and matched them with randomly chosen white cards, creating combinations that barely made sense but were funny anyway. Once more people joined in, the group finally switched to the real rules, with one judge choosing the funniest answer while everyone else tried to outdo each other with increasingly ridiculous cards. Some of the combinations were memorable for how absurd they were, including “When I am President, there will be a whole thing of butter on the moon,” which immediately sent the room into laughter. Another favorite came from the prompt “Batman’s favorite guilty pleasure is blank,” to which someone answered “wizard music.” Nobody could agree on what exactly “wizard music” was, but that’s part of the charm of Cards Against Humanity. The game never officially ended because the party moved to Room 403 in the School of Business building so everyone could use the projector screen. 

Once there, the group switched over to Kahoot games, which quickly became the highlight of the night. Several Disney-themed quizzes had everyone singing along while trying to answer as fast as possible. One Kahoot titled “Questions Every Middle Schooler Should Know” completely confused the room, especially when the final question asked, “Who is the new vice principal?” The answer, apparently, was “Mrs. Bye,” though few people got it right since the quiz was oddly specific to one random middle school class. Nobody knew that when the game was first chosen. Another question that unexpectedly got the room heated asked how many sides a stop sign had. Of course, the answer is eight, but eight was somehow not one of the options on the board, leaving everyone arguing over which incorrect answer they were supposed to pick instead. 

The competition only got more intense during a “Guess the Movie with Emojis” game and an especially difficult trivia Kahoot that left most people staring at the screen in confusion. Throughout the games, Emiley Anderson and Olivia Capino kept battling for the top spots on the leaderboard, turning the Kahoots into a surprisingly dramatic competition. 

Since the event celebrated the new issue of The Greenspring Review, the night also included readings from published works. Logan Lynch read an excerpt from Charlotte Martin’s short story, “Case 08-13-23: Subject Duplication,” while Tsohoy Buggan shared their poem “Bamboo Woman.” The readings gave everyone a chance to hear some of the work featured in the spring issue while also recognizing the writers behind it.

Toward the end of the evening, the new GSR leadership team was announced. Emiley Anderson will step into the role of Chief Editor, while Charlotte Martin will serve as Assistant Editor next year. The announcements were met with applause and excitement from the room as the current leadership officially passed things on to the next group.

Even though the Papa John’s pizza and drinks took a while to arrive, nobody seemed too bothered by it. Between the games, readings, conversations, and nonstop laughter, the event was as successful celebration. By the time the night wrapped up around 8:50, everyone seemed to agree that the spring issue release party was a fun way to close out the semester and celebrate another year of The Greenspring Review. The magazine continues its tradition of generating a literary community at Stevenson University by creating relaxed environments that promote the unification of diverse voices.