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Greenhouse, Sophie Hall
Greenhouse, Sophie Hall
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Greenhouse is a chapbook of creative nonfiction lyric essays and poems about what it means to be at home, fragmented forms echoing my own varied definitions. The writing in this chapbook returns to ideas I have explored for years, expanding on my original college application essay titled “Home” to think about what it means to be at home, what defines a home, and how I am currently building one.
While I was not familiar with the term “creative nonfiction” at the time, my college application essay was my first introduction to the genre, allowing me to reflect on my childhood …
Haunting This Garden, Anna B. Thomas
Haunting This Garden, Anna B. Thomas
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Haunting this Garden is a poetry chapbook containing several poems and illustrations. The final copies were printed and bound with paper, glue, and cloth. Poems in the chapbook were written between 2018 and 2021, though all were heavily revised before being used in the chapbook. The pieces explore themes of love, fear, guilt, and shame. They are all heavily grounded in environmental themes.
Recontextaulizing Literature: A Podcast Project Dedicated To Celebrating And Broadcasting The Voices Of Indigenous Authors And Storytellers, Xavier Hickey
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This project is conducted with intention of exploring the sociocultural implications of a decentralized canon. Designed with Indigenous authors and storytellers in mind, this project perceives the way that literature and storytelling are improved by abandoning the universalized and Eurocentric literary canon and replacing it with complex and unique personal cultural contexts. As part of the overarching podcast project, this document looks to lay out a reading list that represents and enforces the power of recontextualized literature.