Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
- Publication
- Publication Type
- File Type
Articles 1 - 20 of 20
Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
Shieldmaiden, Allison A. Taylor
Shieldmaiden, Allison A. Taylor
Student Publications
"Shieldmaiden" is a poem that examines J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series from a feminist perspective, focusing on the character of Éowyn and her influence on female readers of Tolkien's novels.
The View From The Front, Kathryn M. Gittings
The View From The Front, Kathryn M. Gittings
Student Publications
A creative piece detailing the personal and public history of a small Pennsylvania town, specifically dealing with its crimes and their effect on the collective memory and atmosphere of the area.
The Wonder Of Geese, Bryan M. Furuness
Evolution, Bryan M. Furuness
On Tubes, By Ted Stevens, Bryan M. Furuness
Play From The Heart: Five Notes On Creativity, Bryan M. Furuness
Play From The Heart: Five Notes On Creativity, Bryan M. Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
No abstract available
"Parable Of The Lost Finger" Podcast, Bryan M. Furuness
"Parable Of The Lost Finger" Podcast, Bryan M. Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
This episode we bring you the brand-spanking new bible stories of Bryan Furuness, in which Lucifer is a precocious little boy and Jesus is his accident-prone buddy. The suburban children of this unholy scripture effortlessly humiliate their mortal parents, who lock them out on summer days, and paint mustaches on their portraits.
The First Time I Figured Out What My Novel Was About, Bryan M. Furuness
The First Time I Figured Out What My Novel Was About, Bryan M. Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
No abstract available
On Deadlifting, Bryan M. Furuness
On Deadlifting, Bryan M. Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
The first time I picked up four hundred pounds, I thought my eyeballs were going to explode.
Parable Of The Lost Finger, Bryan Furuness
What’S The Point? Five Writers Offer Lifelines For Post-Mfa Despair, Bryan M. Furuness
What’S The Point? Five Writers Offer Lifelines For Post-Mfa Despair, Bryan M. Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
No abstract available
Ecclesiastes For Writers: A Furunessay In Six Answers, Bryan Furuness
Ecclesiastes For Writers: A Furunessay In Six Answers, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
No abstract available
Dialogue In Fiction, Tracy A. Townsend
Dialogue In Fiction, Tracy A. Townsend
The Short Story
This close-reading and discussion-oriented lesson, which takes between sixty and seventy minutes, uses Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” as a model of how dialogue advances plot and develops character in fiction. It is useful in literature classrooms for its emphasis on drawing inferences from text and in creative writing contexts for teaching effective dialogue writing. This lesson is suitable for grades 9-12.
What’S The Point? Five Writers Offer Lifelines For Post-Mfa Despair, Bryan M. Furuness
What’S The Point? Five Writers Offer Lifelines For Post-Mfa Despair, Bryan M. Furuness
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
No abstract available
Just Another Girl, Julia D. Marshella
Just Another Girl, Julia D. Marshella
Student Publications
A non-fiction piece that explores the causes of the author’s depression while in college. While she is able to pinpoint specific events that have led to her unhappiness, she realizes that accepting her life in spite of these obstacles will allow her to move forward.
Red Rose, Sara Lauren Purifoy
Red Rose, Sara Lauren Purifoy
Student Publications
Red Rose follows the narrator’s innermost thoughts and feelings of abruptly being immersed into a culture very different from her own. While hiking with her brother, a second year environmental Peace Corps volunteer, to visit the home and garden of a Nicaraguan native, she reflects on the changes she sees in her brother and her inability to communicate in a foreign country. She struggles to overcome her feelings of linguistic isolation while still being fascinated by the culture around her. The piece ends on a lovely image of universal understanding.
Play From The Heart: Five Notes On Creativity, Bryan M. Furuness
Play From The Heart: Five Notes On Creativity, Bryan M. Furuness
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
No abstract available
The First Time I Figured Out What My Novel Was About, Bryan M. Furuness
The First Time I Figured Out What My Novel Was About, Bryan M. Furuness
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
No abstract available
Being [T]Here, Dustin B. Smith
Being [T]Here, Dustin B. Smith
English Faculty Publications
When you awoke from the dream, in your early thirties, you knew, as you’ve never known anything else in all your seventy-plus years, that what you’d found was real. The dream began with you sitting in a church, head bowed in prayer. Your eyes opened slowly, and you noticed that you were wearing brilliantly colored, beaded moccasins. You stood abruptly, pushed open the mahogany gate that separated the pew from the center aisle of the church, and began to run. The dream then proposed a seemingly endless and entirely quotidian set of difficulties in The City, and led eventually to …
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera
Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.
Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.