About Refractions
Brookline High School’s student-run literary and creative arts magazine
Refractions is a student-led literary magazine with 50+ years of history, dedicated to promoting literature and showcasing student and staff artwork. Each year, club members develop writing prompts, review submissions, and select outstanding works to feature in the BHS Refractions Literary Magazine. Students and staff are encouraged to submit their writing and artwork.
Members of Refractions take an active role in producing the magazine independently, including selecting submissions, assembling the layout, and distributing copies to the BHS community and beyond. In the 2026–27 school year, we plan to publish two issues — one in early winter and one in spring.
In addition to sharing work within the school community, the Refractions magazine will also be submitted to literary competitions outside of BHS. This gives our members an opportunity to see how their publication performs and to gain experience beyond the classroom.
Come join us!
We publish:
Fiction, poetry, photography and visual art created by current BHS students. We publish two issues a year, in winter and spring, in print and as free PDFs in the archive. Refractions is entirely student-run.
How an issue comes together
- Students send in work through the submission form.
- Refractions staff read every submission at our weekly meetings.
- Refractions staff work with each accepted writer on revisions.
- Refractions staff lay out the pages.
- We sell copies to the BHS community and post a PDF version on this website.