Creative Writing Commons^™

The Godshard's Word, Ari Mackoff

Senior Projects Spring 2022

A kabbalistic, speculative novella that loosely reimagines the biblical Jonah story, set in the mid-1500s in a world with an alternate gender framework. Explores concepts of Jewish textuality and canonizing, and the pushback against the divine call that characterizes certain Tanakhic figures.

The Things We Tell Each Other, Aj Lapierre

Senior Projects Spring 2022

The Things We Tell Each Other is a memoir about a young woman trying to figure out what happened to her as a baby and the truth behind all the secrets. There are different perspectives from different family members explaining what happened to her, but every perspective is a different story and the doctors don't have the real answer. Will she be able to find the truth or will she find her own truth?

The Barbed Wire Boy, Laurent Alexander Brodie

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Y Seguimos Volando, Gabriela Sabogal

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Wind Still Blows, Sophie Ellen Kautenburger

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

An Attempted Liberation Of The Soul, Nicholas Galluzzi

Senior Projects Spring 2022

A fictional fantastical story set in a magical post-apocalypse, about the perspective character Constantine, who hears a voice in his head one day, telling him to improve his situation and run away from the responsibilities his dystopia has given him. In the resulting journey, trust and moral certainty are the most valuable resources.

The Artist's Diary, Anamae Gilroy

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Skyward, Christian R. Griffin

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Legends Of Zamour, Miranda F. Hall

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

This project is a selection of chapters and excerpts from Part I of a fantastical novel that has existed in my imagination for a few years and is finally being brought to fruition. The novel follows an eighteen year old boy named Ansel Burnett and his contemporaries Michelle Payson and Felix Santos as they enter a prestigious Institute for warriors and attempt to apprehend a powerful emerging criminal before she enacts war.

Blurb: For as long as he could remember, Ansel Burnett dreamt of becoming a Guardian, …

Radical Folk Heroes: Anansi & Br’Er Rabbit’S West African Origins & Their Forced Pilgrimages, Sage Adia Swaby

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Signs To Stop, Finn Tait

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Take this as a Sign-

At night it is so much easier to believe a story. There is a forgiveness at night, an expanding of what might be possible. I first learned how to tell stories in the dark, from listening to my dad's voice as I drifted off to sleep, from the whispered voices of my friends around a fire, from the car tape player on a long drive home. It is easy to imagine that something terrible stands just beyond the headlight's reach, looks back at you from your dark bathroom mirror, or lurks just behind your bedroom …

The Leatherman And Other Short Stories, Sophia Joy Slezak

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

A Clear Place In The Sun, Sarina Donin Schwartz

Senior Projects Spring 2022

A Clear Place in the Sun is a poetry collection centered around growing up in Florida and all of the beauty and contradictions that that entails.

Electric Snake, David Y. Liang

Senior Projects Spring 2022

A blend of fantastic, noir, and cyberpunk elements. Prose.

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Impressions On The American Cowboy: End Of The Trail, Ghost Town And Rough Men, Jude Edmund Markey-Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2022

“Impressions on the American Cowboy” seeks to consider, expose, and investigate the symbol of the cowboy in our culture–– in all of its twisted romance. After reflecting on my personal experiences as well as various historical texts and works of western fiction, I set out to make my own western-themed work. My intention is to comment and explore the so-called “man problem” across disciplines in live performed time and space. This work attempts to think critically about how and why cowboy culture has persisted, and to delve into this particular and troubling projection of masculine consciousness.

This Is The Sky That I See, Gavin T. Mckenzie

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This is the sky that I see, a Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College, reflects the power we hold in defining and redefining spaces, and how ordinary places can be reimagined for the Othered body. I produced this show to allow the characters to shape and decide their worlds, centering on their relationships and feelings. This is the sky that I see establishes a completely queer world that centers Queer joy and friendship.

Nectar Of The Sleepless Dead, Grace Frances Mcnally

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Nectar of the Sleepless Dead is a retelling of the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone set in the world of a Gothic monster novel where godhood comes at a high price and many seek their immortality through unsavory means. The social order of Olympia is thrown into chaos when Hades, the greatly feared ruler of the Necropolis, makes his first public appearance since wartime with unknown motives. Kore, daughter of Demeter, has been living a double life under the pseudonym "Persephone" and soon finds herself caught …

Party Of Immortals, Hyazinth S. Baumann

Senior Projects Spring 2022

I am the cook of a queer kitchen for characters. Who wants to come out? Where’s the seasoning? So far I’ve had a nonbinary Hebrew angel, a trans Dionysus, a drag dragon, and an agender winter spirit inhabit my physical form. Each mythic persona is meant to serve a new dish on the table. Lailah externalizes her/my spiritual awakening. Dionysus realizes his/my ideals of re-normalizing nudity. Darastrix serves in reaction to the history of womanhood and investigates the strange and magical beginnings of her/my childhood. Perchta practices durational performance and processes its/my Austrian heritage.

Zines are self-produced, self-published bodies of …

Incipient Adulthood: Fragments Of Student Life, Natasha Clement Cameron

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Sickos, Simon Prescott Dimock

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Sickos is a story about cars and monsters.

Made Entirely Of Vapor: A Poetic Unwriting, Sophia Luna Fangman

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College