Creative Writing Commons^™

He Is Mine, Summer Hammond

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Somedays Barbie, Rikki Santer

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Mr. Truhart, Amy Clements

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Roadside Memorials, Karen Guzman

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Black Cherry, Daria Rose

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Leftovers, James Magruder

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Suburban Guerilla, E.H. Jacobs

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Vigil, Brenda Beardsley

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

The Field Excerpt, Sara Slingerland Sheiner

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

At Beaver Pond, Singing Whispered Songs, Mark Strohschein

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Emergent Narrative In Tabletop Role-Playing Games: An Application Of Concepts, Padraig Mumper

Honors Projects

This project examines tabletop role-playing games using concepts from narratology and ludology including emergent narrative and Roger Caillois’ categories of games by applying these concepts in the creation of an adventure zine for the game MÖRK BORG. The existing literature on emergent narrative primarily focuses on video games and Avant Garde texts but tabletop role-playing games provide a novel opportunity to explore emergent narrative in new ways. The dynamic of a collaborative game with multiple players and a gamemaster provides additional challenges for designers due to variance in interpretation of the game events and the lack of a digital program …

Building Connection With Community Reads: Opening Up A Learning Community During Isolation And Beyond, Hannah Mendro, Alyssa Berger, Carina Bixby, Joanne Chern, Kat Wyly, Laura Dimmit Smyth

All Things Open

Community Reads at the UW Bothell/Cascadia College Library is a program open to students, staff, and faculty across both our communities with the goal of facilitating conversation around topics of social justice and equity. We use a shared reading (a book, essay, or short story) that aligns with a greater theme as the basis of our programming, but build out from our reading in many different ways. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and more than a year of virtual learning, the team has focused on providing multiple creative entry points into our readings and discussions, prioritizing alternative ways …

Darling: An Adaptation Of "The Yellow Wallpaper", Dawniqueca A.L. Steele

FUSION

Based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the following story depicts the vacation of a young woman and her fiancé to an isolated mountain cabin. Similar to the original text, the woman gains a fixation on a specifically colored item, this being the white snow outside. The intentions of this story were to depict how misogyny and female insanity have both evolved and remained stagnant throughout time. Even though the original text featured traditional concepts of misogyny while the following focuses on modern forms, the two show the same maddening fear of a woman in the presence of inequality. …

Individuality And Conformity In Spiritfarer’S Good Death, Alyssa Pierce

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Words Of Art, Megan Bynum, Rae Bynum

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

The Oracle Of The Pig's Head, Taylor L. Denton

LSU Master's Theses

The Oracle of the Pig’s Head is a collection of two poems, a short story, and a novel centered around themes of the role of the feminine body in society, monstrosity, disgust, divinity, and human impact on the environment. Inspired by other works of eco-criticism, gothic literature, surrealism, Appalachian folklore, and Greco-Roman mythology, this collection explores how marginalized bodies interact in a world forever altered by climate change.

Denton is primarily interested in how severe climate change has influenced not only human’s overall relationship to the environment, but also how writers are meant to engage with a world riddled with …

Hester Prynne: The Angel Pioneer Of Sin & Punishment (A Poetry Collection Inspired By "The Scarlet Letter"), Raya Kruger

2024 Student Academic Showcase

This creative research project is in the form of a poetry collection including 11 poems inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. This project includes research on the novel itself, but research also conducted on Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet and her ideas on womanhood. Through poetry, I present my thesis as Hester Prynne being an “Angel Pioneer”; as Hester is forced to journey into an unexplored world of sin and punishment within the events of the novel. With my project, I aim to convey Hester Prynne’s character transformation from a sinful woman to an angelic figure full of mercy …

Haunted: Writing Poems As A Shadowy Intellectual, Atreyee Majumder

Articles

An academic and writer reflects on the circumstances and stimuli—in the form of poetry—that led her to find a voice that was as intimately her own as it was public.

Leapfrog & How To Half-Bake, Zachary Bajuyo

Scholars Week

The first piece recounts an early experience with frustration and the feeling of breakthrough when learning.

The second piece recounts an early experience of giving up.

How Do We Craft Autoethnography? A Modest Review, Niroj Dahal

The Qualitative Report

I am writing this review as an essential reading for readers and writers of the book—Crafting Autoethnography: Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture, edited by Jackie Goode, Karen Lumsden, and Jan Bradford, which explores the art of crafting autoethnography (Goode et al., 2023). As a novice autoethnographer, I have grappled with challenges and explored borders while shaping my narrative as a self-narrator of autoethnographic writing. So, in this review, I have attempted to engage readers by offering the invitation, encouraging initial reading as entry to the book, subsequent re-entry, and eventual exit as my evaluation of the …