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The Virtues Of Podcasting And Multimodal Literacies In The Creative Writing Classroom: Diversity, Voice, And The New Digital Environment, Saul B. Lemerond Phd, Leigh Camacho Rourks Phd

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

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Bi Design: Strategies For Fiction, Audrey T. Heffers

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

How can bisexuality be represented in fiction in a way that is realistic and nuanced? This article presents five strategies of representing bisexuality in fiction, listed here as Implying, Demonstrating, Describing, Using Explicit Labels, and Having Conversations. These practical approaches highlight craft techniques that writers can implement in their own work. By articulating some of the ways in which bisexuality is already written in fiction, these strategies provide tools for writers to write bisexuality in ways that work against common stereotypes. These strategies are presented through an interdisciplinary lens, primarily relying upon Creative Writing Studies, …

Setting The Scene For Community-Based Learning: Creative Writing As A Platform For Inquiry And Integrative Learning, Adam Watkins

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Creative writing pedagogy has received a surge of critical interest of late, though much remains to be said about its capacity to support trans-disciplinary learning outcomes, such as those related to community-based learning. Through an assessment of a place-based course focused on community-based learning, this article provides evidence that creative writing assignments can be an effective learning tool for cultivating community engagement and intercultural competencies. The educational value of creative writing, this study shows, has much to do with its unique mode of inquiry, which is well suited for integrating diverse perspectives, multi-modal research, and multiple ways of knowing.

Writing And Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Georgia Poetry Circuit Presents Charles Harper Webb on April 7

An Adopted Husband [Sono Omokage], Futabatei Shimei, Buhachiro Mitsui, Gregg M. Sinclair

Zea E-Books Collection

This novel by Futabatei Shimei (1864–1909) falls squarely within the traditions of Naturalism in literature. Reminiscent of Theordore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie or Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, it presents characters in the grip of forces they cannot resist or control. Tetsuya is a Professor of Economics and Finance who has accepted an adoption-marriage to pay the costs of his education. Now he finds himself miserable with his neglectful wife Toki-ko, and attracted to her illegitimate half-sister Sayo-ko, who cannot help herself from returning his affections. Enmeshed by their emotions, hemmed in by convention, tormented by guilt and remorse, the lovers careen …

Fa'amatagi: From Whence The Wind Blows, Annette Roberts

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Fa’amatagi: From Whence the Wind Blows is a love letter to the people and culture of my parents. This is a documentary poetics project that draws upon research of the Mau Movement, archives from the New Zealand government, and personal ethnographies with my own parents who are both of Samoan descent. I curated several pieces of art from book collector Alexander Turnbull and photographer Alfred J. Tattersall. This project delves into the effects of colonialism on a previously isolated people. It explores the act of civil disobedience and what comes of it versus the long-lasting damage of compliance towards a …

1% Left Of 100: Taino History And Puerto Rican Identity, Alanis Gonzalez Torres

Undergraduate Research Symposium

1% left of 100 is a documentary poetics research project exploring the confluence of identity, family, and language. Crafted in a hybrid format that mixes Spanish and English according to my personal idiolect, which is itself a product of my heritage as a Puerto Rican, Africa, native Taino American, this poem engages with exciting new approaches to thinking about race which liberate us from talking about physical features and takes us instead toward race as a social fact, a product of culture, history, and family. I seek to intervene in a narrative of American history that, though it teaches about …

The Pagoda, Rohan Kōda, Nariyuki Koda

Zea E-Books Collection

This novel is a landmark in Japanese literature, widely known, read, and beloved. Sometimes known as “The Five-Story Pagoda,” it tells the story of Jubei, a carpenter and craftsman, who dreams of building a pagoda for the Abbot of the Kannoji Temple. Despite his poverty, low station, and poor reputation—he is known as “the slouch”— Jubei’s determined and uncompromising allegiance to his own vision bring him the possibility of raising a great work for the ages … but will it stand against the howling demons of a tropical typhoon?

Rohan Kōda’s The Pagoda (Gojūnotō, 五重塔) first appeared in …

The Many Moving Parts Behind Brandon Sanderson’S Record-Breaking Kickstarter Campaign, Kathi Inman Berens

English Faculty Publications and Presentations

The creation and fulfillment of Sanderson’s Kickstarter relies on a crack team managing massive amounts of data as well as all aspects of production. Sanderson had been running a multi-million-dollar, mid-sized publishing company well before his March 1, 2022 Kickstarter shot north of $28 million in two weeks, making it the biggest campaign—for now—in Kickstarter history.

Pressed Flowers, Jeffrey A. Summit

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Shark's Fin, John Whitney Steele

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Returning The Gift, John Smelcer

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Alpine Garden, David K. Leff

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Shinrin-Yoku, Marcyn Del Clements

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

Bog Parable, Todd Davis

Appalachia

No abstract provided.

A Peak Ahead, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

A look to the next issue’s stories on cell phones in the backcountry, the Cohos Trial, research in alpine flowers and climate change, a Long Trail hike, and more.

Books And Media

Appalachia

Reviews of: Trail applications including AllTrails, Cal Topo, Avenza, Gaia GPS, FatMap, and Onx Backcountry, reviewed by Catherine Buni and Scott Berkley. Gunks Climbing by Andy Salo et al. The 4,000-Footers of New Hampshire’s White Mountains by Mike Dickerman. AMC’s Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance, Fifth Edition edited by Ryan Harvey. Great Day Hikes on North Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail by the Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. The Most Radical Thing You Can Do: The Best Political Essays from Orion Magazine edited by Christopher Cox. The Waterville Valley Guidebook by Steven D. Smith with Preston Conklin. On the …

Valley And Skyline Sketches

Appalachia

In “The Goldfish Pond,” Gregory Norris brings alive a childhood memory of wandering around other people’s houses in a small New Hampshire town. In “The Run-In,” Gordon DuBois recounts driving on snow-covered icy roads in the Mahoosuc Range.

News And Notes

Appalachia

Tracking COVID-19 trail use through trail applications. Annie Ropeik’s report on wildfire risk in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

In Memoriam

Appalachia

Remembering Andrew Norkin, longtime director of trails and recreation management for the Appalachian Mountain Club.

Alpina

Appalachia

Four climbers died attempting K2 in February 2021. An attempt on the North Pillar of Tengkangpoche. Everest opened up after the pandemic—partially. Brief appreciation of two climbers (Edward Norton and T. H. Somervell) who attempted Everest in 1924 just before George Mallory and Sandy Irvine. A remarkable traverse of Fitz Roy. Near Denali, the Muldrow Glacier surges for the first time in many years

Accidents

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in the cold months of late 2020 and winter 2021 included a medical emergency and rescue in Lincoln Woods, a helicopter rescue of two fast-hikers who got lost near the Greenleaf Trail on the Franconia loop, two lost hikers who called perhaps too quickly for help near Mount Adams, three seasoned and well-equipped hikers who dealt with a sudden injury on Tripyramid, and more.

Letters

Appalachia

An Appalachian Mountain Club Worcester Chapter member finds motivation from Douglass Teschner’s article on the Hancocks. A woman who was cabin maid near Old Faithful in 1952 responds to Steven Jervis’s story about climbing in that area the same year. Two readers bring up problems that come up hiking with dogs on trails.

The Tourists: Having No Memory Or Relationships In A Landscape, They Make Dangerous Mistakes, Hilary Smith

Appalachia

A fascinating and uncomfortable chronicle of tourist behavior along a remote western river.

Waterman Fund Essay Winner: Splitting Clouds At The Edge Of The World: How Had I Never Noticed It Before?, Jason Mazurowski

Appalachia

The 2021 winner of our annual contest for emerging writers, ecologist Jason Mazurowski, spots Mount Marcy from his Vermont apartment window at the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic and sets out to climb it

Light Snow In The Whites: A Close Call, Rob Powers, Bill Powers

Appalachia

A father and son use know-how and luck in finding their way safely down Mount Washington in a winter storm.

Considering The Heartache Of The World: A Girl Whose Mother Never Came And One Whose Mother Did, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Elissa Ely watches a happy family on Square Ledge while thinking about someone she knows whose family life was deeply unhappy.

Be Wary Of The Hind-Leg Kick: Memories Of Donkey Driving In The Sandwich Notch Area Of New Hampshire, William Geller

Appalachia

The latest in William Geller’s historical pieces looks at early- and mid-twentieth-century donkey driving in the Sandwich Notch area of New Hampshire.

A Day—And 150 Years—In The Nordmarka: Skiing Through A Norwegian Forest Is Everyone's Right, Sam Martland

Appalachia

A chronicle of a snowshoe trek through a public forest in Oslo, Norway.

The Passing Of Northern Pass: Reflections On A Nine-Year Fight That Halted A Power Line Through The White Mountains, Kenneth Kimball

Appalachia

The retired director of research for the Appalachian Mountain Club, Dr. Kenneth Kimball, recounts the story of activists who halted a proposal to build a massive powerline through New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest.