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Westview: Vol. 30, Iss. 2 (Summer 2014), 2014 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Westview: Vol. 30, Iss. 2 (Summer 2014)

Westview

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Brigid's Peace: An Examination Of The Influences Of The Catholic Intellectual Tradition On One Writer's Creative Work, Marie A. Hulme 2014 Sacred Heart University

Brigid's Peace: An Examination Of The Influences Of The Catholic Intellectual Tradition On One Writer's Creative Work, Marie A. Hulme

Presidential Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

The genesis of my novel, Brigid’s Peace, which I began in the spring of 2013 coinciding with my studies in the Presidential Seminar, was an interest in examining the need for luminosity, for transcendence, for beauty in the face of dark despair and evil. My work centers on the story of an Irish Catholic family living in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the time of sectarian conflict known as “the troubles,” but more specifically on the impact of events related to that time on one young woman, Brigid Donegan, an artist and one of seven sisters. Through a close, third person …


Cataluyna, William Connor McAndrew 2014 DePauw University

Cataluyna, William Connor Mcandrew

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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How To Be A Bridesmaid, Emily Hancock 2014 DePauw University

How To Be A Bridesmaid, Emily Hancock

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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8:01 Pm, Jake Hjelmtveit 2014 Minnesota State University, Mankato

8:01 Pm, Jake Hjelmtveit

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Jake Hjelmtveit's short story 8:01 PM was written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Moving On. For our group, Moving On represented the emotional weight in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Moving On implies change, and all good prose and verse possess change. As creative writers, we explored this theme through subjects ranging from the death of a loved one to loss of one’s faith. By focusing on our theme, we examined our own lives and improved our creative writing skills. We attained our goals through observation, discussion, information gathering, writing, and revision of creative work. …


For The Love Of God, Marissa Hansen 2014 Minnesota State University, Mankato

For The Love Of God, Marissa Hansen

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Marissa Hansen's short story For the Love of God was written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Moving On. For our group, Moving On represented the emotional weight in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Moving On implies change, and all good prose and verse possess change. As creative writers, we explored this theme through subjects ranging from the death of a loved one to loss of one’s faith. By focusing on our theme, we examined our own lives and improved our creative writing skills. We attained our goals through observation, discussion, information gathering, writing, and revision …


Small Town Changes, Excerpt, Marissa Hansen 2014 Minnesota State University, Mankato

Small Town Changes, Excerpt, Marissa Hansen

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Marissa Hansen's short story Small Town Changes, excerpt was written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Where we Live. For our project, group members explored the theme Where We Live in its varied interpretations through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For my project, the theme Where We Live was addressed through creative nonfiction. I wanted to explore my own value as a writer, to myself and to my peers. The piece I wrote was influenced by my vision of personal events in my own life as well as the objective view of my narrator and her …


Things To Ponder, Mandi Bingham 2014 Minnesota State University, Mankato

Things To Ponder, Mandi Bingham

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Mandi Bingham's short story Things to Ponder was written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Where we Live. For our project, group members explored the theme Where We Live in its varied interpretations through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For my project, the theme Where We Live was addressed through creative nonfiction. I wanted to explore my own value as a writer, to myself and to my peers. The piece I wrote was influenced by my vision of personal events in my own life as well as the objective view of my narrator and her interpretation …


Dreaming In Steps, Kelly Biers 2014 Minnesota State University, Mankato

Dreaming In Steps, Kelly Biers

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Kelly Biers' short story Dreaming in Steps was written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Where we Live. For our project, group members explored the theme Where We Live in its varied interpretations through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For my project, the theme Where We Live was addressed through creative nonfiction. I wanted to explore my own value as a writer, to myself and to my peers. The piece I wrote was influenced by my vision of personal events in my own life as well as the objective view of my narrator and her interpretation …


Lucca, Lynne Sharon Schwartz 2014 The University of San Francisco

Lucca, Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Ontario Review

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ is a free-lance writer who also teaches English at the City University of New York. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines, including The New Republic, and she is just completing a novel. She has published two children's plays, has been a magazine editor, a translator, and publicity writer.


Pop, Bill Henderson 2014 The University of San Francisco

Pop, Bill Henderson

Ontario Review

BILL HENDERSON'S work has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Chicago  Review, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere; and he is the author (under the pen-name "Luke Walton") of The Galapagos Kid (Nautilus Books, 1971). He lives in Yonkers, N.Y.


Here There Is No Place That Does Not See You, Carolyn B. Mikulencak 2014 University of New Orleans

Here There Is No Place That Does Not See You, Carolyn B. Mikulencak

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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The Isle Of Flightless Birds: A Concise History, Carin Chapman 2014 University of New Orleans

The Isle Of Flightless Birds: A Concise History, Carin Chapman

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Shadow Bands, Jeanne Schinto 2014 The University of San Francisco

Shadow Bands, Jeanne Schinto

Ontario Review

Jeanne Schinto, a former OR contributor, has published also in Ascent, Cimarron Review, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. A story of hers appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1984, edited by John Updike.


Distant Friends, Greg Johnson 2014 The University of San Francisco

Distant Friends, Greg Johnson

Ontario Review

Greg Johnson, a former OR contributor, has work in recent issues of Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. His critical study of Emily Dickinson was recently published by the University of Alabama Press. He lives in Decatur, Georgia.


Baby, Joyce Carol Oates 2014 The University of San Francisco

Baby, Joyce Carol Oates

Ontario Review

Joyce Carol Oates's most recent books are Solstice, a novel, and Last Days, a collection of short stories.


Dreamers: Stories, Eddie Wayne Malone 2014 University of Southern Mississippi

Dreamers: Stories, Eddie Wayne Malone

Dissertations

The short stories in Dreamers explore American masculinity in the twenty-first century. They also examine and complicate Asian-American identity at a time when decades-old stereotypes persist in the culture. In the title story, a war veteran returns home from Afghanistan to find an American landscape that has the feel and texture of a terrible dream. In other stories, men fixate not on women but on each other. In “Still Life,” the middle-aged main character is preoccupied with a friend who died over fifteen years ago. The main character in “At War with the Insects” pursues a man who was both …


Next Year In Juarez: Stories, Christopher Michael Brunt 2014 University of Southern Mississippi

Next Year In Juarez: Stories, Christopher Michael Brunt

Dissertations

This creative dissertation comprises a collection of short fiction and a critical preface. The preface explores the concept of variousness as it affects the contemporary production of literary fiction. Reference is made to a range of twentieth century writers in order to position the dissertation in a context of literary history. The piece titled “The Essay on Longing” is the first chapter of a novel-in-stories.


Seasonal Roads, Lynn K. Fay 2014 Northern Michigan University

Seasonal Roads, Lynn K. Fay

All NMU Master's Theses

Lynn Kimball Fay has been publishing for twenty-five years under the pen-name L. E. Kimball.
As a writer, I’m interested in the way Truth seems to me—intuitively—nonlinea. I’m interested in story cycles that examine Truth from different points of view, usually nonlinearly; and I’m interested in the way setting reveals Truth and how it reveals character. I’m interested in Faith—a kind that is not irreconcilable with science, the kind it takes to put that foot in front of the other.
The kind we have in one another.
I have always, therefore, been fascinated with layers of Time, the nonlinear and …


[Blip] And Other Noises, Jennifer Jacob Brown 2014 University of Southern Mississippi

[Blip] And Other Noises, Jennifer Jacob Brown

Master's Theses

[Blip] and Other Noises is a collection of short stories that explores the illusory nature of identity, time, space, and our experience of reality. Its principal characters include a sea captain, an Elvis fanatic, a space alien, and some very confused children. Its principal settings include small town Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexico, the Indiana wilderness, and uncharted (by humans) outer space. This collection is accompanied by a critical introduction.


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