Ryan Hiemenz
Ryan Hiemenz is a senior Media and Communications major with a concentration in Multimedia Publishing and a minor in Creative Writing. Currently, he is a CTLM fellow on the communications team, the Layout Manager for The Compass, the Editor-in-Chief of Arcadia University’s literary magazine Quiddity, and the Co-Editor-in-Chief for Loco Mag, a Philadelphia lifestyle and culture magazine. Ryan enjoys spending his free time reading, writing poetry, and hyper fixating on specific film directors until he’s watched everything in their filmography.
Ryan Hiemenz Blog #4
As we near the end of the semester, my thesis project is really starting to take shape. I have just received a box full of print copies of the first edition of the magazine that I’m excited to try and sell at the showcase event on the 28th. At this point, the bulk of...
Ryan Hiemenz Blog Post #3
Phantasm has been coming together incredibly well! As you can see from the image above, I officially have a proof copy in my hands. It’s crazy to think that just a few months ago I was thinking about what to do for my thesis project and now I have a book with 100...
Ryan Hiemenz Blog Post #2
Patience is exhausting. At this point in the process, I’m working to promote Phantasm and collecting submissions. There are just under two weeks left to submit, and with my experience working on other magazines is that the bulk of submissions come during the last few...
Ryan Hiemenz Blog #1
One definition of the word phantasm is “an illusory likeness of something,” in other words something imagined or not actually present. I felt that this was a perfect title for my own literary magazine because it blends both subject matter from my theory paper on...