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Articles 1 - 21 of 21
Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
A Soul's Shape Is Beautiful, Alondra Orozco
A Soul's Shape Is Beautiful, Alondra Orozco
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
A memoir engaged with the seminar's theme of Change, Transformation, and Transition. It follows my story and how I came to discover my true self. This is a coming-out story, with the purpose of sharing my experiences and potentially getting others to understand non-binary or transgendered people better. It delves into my personal thoughts and experiences, as well as transphobia from my parents. Since the story begins in my early childhood, the diction and writing style change throughout the story. I also incorporate the use of stream of consciousness to show my progression from cisgendered to a non-binary person.
(Re)Considering Craft And Centralizing Cultures: A Revision Of The Introductory Creative Writing Workshop, Zoë Bossiere, Micah Mccrary
(Re)Considering Craft And Centralizing Cultures: A Revision Of The Introductory Creative Writing Workshop, Zoë Bossiere, Micah Mccrary
Journal of Creative Writing Studies
This article explores options for introductory creative writing curricula that allow for and encourage a greater consideration of personal identity and audience on the part of the student-author. It reaches toward possibilities for revising the introductory creative writing course as a space for student-authors to not only consider the cultural positions of the professional authors they study, but also the ways in which their own subject-positions influence their writing practices, craft choices, and understandings of genre. The article overall proposes a holistic revision to the standard, introductory creative writing curriculum, moving student-authors beyond considerations of “good” creative writing, and toward …
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 …
Hurt To Love, Christa Kaye Jishelle Casidsid
Hurt To Love, Christa Kaye Jishelle Casidsid
Night Flight Journal
Family dynamics come in many different forms. Some are regarded by society as "healthy," others "toxic," but there are instances where there is a gray line. Once an only child grown to the older sibling, this daughter watches her family relationship. More particularly, she watches her parent that has been there by her side ever since she could remember. "Healthy" or "toxic" are words lost in confusion in her home. She cannot help but feel the pain of the actions and words from the years that built up in her struggle of endurance and martyr sacrifice.
Abuela, Nikki Zambon
Jupiter, Caroline Tuss
Lingering, Andrea Halland
I Will Not Beg, I Am An Oyster, Frances Brauneis
The Squirrel And Pappy Show, Kat Jackson
How To Kill A Duskwing Butterfly, Stephanie Hohn
My Mother In The Mirror, Andrea Halland
If Language Can Be A Kind Of Crying, A Response To Keetje Kuipers, Rebekah Jenkins
If Language Can Be A Kind Of Crying, A Response To Keetje Kuipers, Rebekah Jenkins
The Oval
No abstract provided.
10 Things Only Single Moms Who Were In My Living Room Will Understand, Kelly Magee
10 Things Only Single Moms Who Were In My Living Room Will Understand, Kelly Magee
CutBank
No abstract provided.
Treatise, Scripture, Manifesto: Reckoning With "Love Cake", Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
Treatise, Scripture, Manifesto: Reckoning With "Love Cake", Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
Audre Lorde Writing Prize
This essay was written in response to Sri Lankan-American writer and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha's poetry collection Love Cake, as part of a directed study I undertook in Spring 2021. A goal of the directed study, titled "The Empire Writes Back" was to engage with and build upon work by writers from South Asia and the diaspora, of which Piepzna-Samarasinha is a vocal member. In this essay, I explore not only the sense of connection I feel with this poet and her body of work as a result of shared experiences of otherness, trauma, and nationhood, but also …
The Death Of Superman, Shane F. Mcfarlane
The Death Of Superman, Shane F. Mcfarlane
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN is an autobiographical novel that covers the years from 7 to 17 in the life of Shane McFarlane, who struggles to overcome the effects of his inner-city environment and an addict father in and out of incarceration. The title is a metaphor for the decaying presence of the narrator’s father in his and his older brother’s life and the resulting consequences of that absence.
With the narrator’s father in prison, new threats emerge, including his mother’s ruthless boyfriend and his brother’s attraction to the allure of fast money. The narrator must ultimately make decisions governed by …
Split At The Root, Robert S. Gryder
Split At The Root, Robert S. Gryder
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Influenced by— and sometimes in conversation with— diverse literary voices such as Dorothy Allision (BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA), Harry Crews (A CHILDHOOD), and Mark Doty (FIREBIRD), SPLIT AT THE ROOT is a literary bildungsroman told primarily in the narrative mode. The memoir traces the narrator’s volatile beginnings in the trailer parks of rural South Carolina in the 1980s to the day he accepted, sight unseen, an offer of admission to Yale University, boarding a plane in 1993 for the first time in his life. This memoir explores the narrator’s quest for agency, deploying the essayist mode to interrogate along the …
Hair Ties, Christie Tate
Father As Natural Disaster, Lena Crown
Hidden In A Snail Shell, Zara Ana Kornfeld
Hidden In A Snail Shell, Zara Ana Kornfeld
Senior Projects Spring 2021
Snails are an often overlooked member of the Hudson River ecosystem, though play a critical role in supporting it. This Senior Project delves into the evolutionary history of freshwater snails as well as the roles they fulfill within their ecosystems. This project also considers the codependent nature of snails and the Hudson River and how that relationship will be impacted by Climate Change.
It Could Have Been Anyone, Mariel Ruth Cupp
It Could Have Been Anyone, Mariel Ruth Cupp
Senior Projects Spring 2021
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.