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How To Spend A Year Of Your Twenties Without A Car, Jane Duffy '26 2026 DePauw University

How To Spend A Year Of Your Twenties Without A Car, Jane Duffy '26

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

Jane Duffy is an English Writing and Studio Art double major at DePauw University. She is a painter, a creative writer, and the Editor-in-chief of A Midwestern Review for her fourth year of involvement. She enjoys hiking, drinking coffee, travelling, and creating things inspired by observation of the world around her.


Creative Nonfiction Essays, Colby S. Langley 2026 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Creative Nonfiction Essays, Colby S. Langley

Honors Theses

To write about the present with any authority requires a keen eye for the past. To write from our lives into meaningful creative nonfiction requires a firm understanding that experience is the composite of life experience blending into the current moment. The writing is then drawn irreversibly towards emotion: indulgent and oppressive. The extremity of emotion dictates the difficulty of transcribing the experience onto the page, and violence is a source of both extreme emotion and experience. It is important to note that I am primarily considering personal violence for this essay, while societal and institutional violence have their own …


Memory Organs, Coco Ma 2026 CUNY Hunter College

Memory Organs, Coco Ma

Theses and Dissertations

Working across architectural sculpture, sonic works, and monoprints, this thesis explores the body as a site where memory, materiality, and cultural history converge. Drawing from muscle memory, Chinese architectural thresholds, and female narratives, it traces a body that is simultaneously physical and psychological, personal and collective, constant yet always shifting.


Heirloomed: An Italian-American Daughter Weaving Past And Present, Catherine Santino 2026 City University of New York (CUNY)

Heirloomed: An Italian-American Daughter Weaving Past And Present, Catherine Santino

Theses and Dissertations

Amid a string of family deaths, writer and journalist Catherine Santino found herself preoccupied by the idea of lineage and inheritance. As she digs into her Sicilian heritage, she explores how the traditions and values set forth by her family’s matriarchs have shaped the woman she’s still becoming. From grappling with the shame caused by the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings of purity to examining how Italian food customs impacted her body image, Santino interrogates the complicated truth that the belief systems she was raised with offer both comfort and torment.


Mondays At Moore's, Jane Duffy '26 2026 DePauw University

Mondays At Moore's, Jane Duffy '26

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

Jane Duffy is an English Writing and Studio Art double major at Depauw University. She is a painter, a creative writer, and the Editor-in-chief of A Midwestern Review for her fourth year of involvement. She enjoys hiking, drinking coffee, travelling, and creating things inspired by observation of the world around her.


Broken Nose, Addison Elliott '29 2026 DePauw University

Broken Nose, Addison Elliott '29

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

Addi Elliott is a writer based in Indiana whose work centers on short creative nonfiction. Through concise, image-driven storytelling, they capture vivid memories and explore family experiences. Drawing from lives, their work reflects storytelling as preservation and reinvention, creating pieces that linger and reveal the quiet complexity beneath everyday moments.


Luja Volume 6: Issue 1 (Full Volume), 2026 Wilfrid Laurier University

Luja Volume 6: Issue 1 (Full Volume)

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

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Belmont Literary Journal Launch Event, Jason J. Riley IV, Audrey Blake, Darwin Canales, Claire Carrillo, Abigail Coe, James Derryberry, Istbra Elmi, Bevan Johnson, Ava Lange, Keira Naab, Bailey Passarelli, Ava Rowland, Leticia Schueth, Samuel Shepley, Margaret Simpkins, Owen Tarro 2026 Belmont University

Belmont Literary Journal Launch Event, Jason J. Riley Iv, Audrey Blake, Darwin Canales, Claire Carrillo, Abigail Coe, James Derryberry, Istbra Elmi, Bevan Johnson, Ava Lange, Keira Naab, Bailey Passarelli, Ava Rowland, Leticia Schueth, Samuel Shepley, Margaret Simpkins, Owen Tarro

SPARK Symposium Presentations

Join the Belmont Literary Journal in celebrating the launch of their online publication! This presentation will include insights from the journal’s staff, selected readings from the poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction categories, refreshments, and time to connect with Belmont’s diverse creative community.


Through The Lens Of Fire: Photography And Resitance, Nehru Madan 2026 Syracuse University

Through The Lens Of Fire: Photography And Resitance, Nehru Madan

Intertext

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Carrying Home With Me - A Cambodian American Story, Thatiana So 2026 Providence College

Carrying Home With Me - A Cambodian American Story, Thatiana So

English Student Scholarship

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On The Sunny Side Of The Street: An Original Novel, Alyssa Caneira 2026 Providence College

On The Sunny Side Of The Street: An Original Novel, Alyssa Caneira

English Student Scholarship

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Editors, The Alembic 2026 Providence College

Editors, The Alembic

The Alembic

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Volume 104, Number 1 - Spring 2026, The Alembic 2026 Providence College

Volume 104, Number 1 - Spring 2026, The Alembic

The Alembic

Cover "The Stars are Screaming in the Field Outside my Apartment" by Hale Mueller


Table Of Contents, The Alembic 2026 Providence College

Table Of Contents, The Alembic

The Alembic

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Editor's Note, The Alembic 2026 Providence College

Editor's Note, The Alembic

The Alembic

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Alembic Cover 2026, Hale Mueller 2026 Providence College

Alembic Cover 2026, Hale Mueller

The Alembic

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It Used To Be I Would Write In Echoes, Haley Metzger 2026 Providence College

It Used To Be I Would Write In Echoes, Haley Metzger

The Alembic

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Wednesday Night Baptism, Haley Metzger 2026 Providence College

Wednesday Night Baptism, Haley Metzger

The Alembic

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Dare To Dream, Amelia C. Westfall 2026 Providence College

Dare To Dream, Amelia C. Westfall

The Alembic

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December Songbird, Hanna Boudreau 2026 Providence College

December Songbird, Hanna Boudreau

The Alembic

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