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2026 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department

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Table of Contents:

• Front Cover: The Patriarch by Rachel Malek
• Letter from the Editors by Freddie Borer & Wrenne Grone
• Running Out of Steam by Rachel Malek
• 10/20 by Julia Tenbusch
• An Ode to South Bend the Home That Never Was by Anna Leslein
• I Am Wanted by Maya Sivillo
• Two Decades and More... by Liticia Makhloufi
• Inner Conflict by Liticia Makhloufi
• June 14th by Grace McKenney
• No Expectations by Anna Leslein
• Ode to Carelessness by Gracie Barton
• Season of Gratitude by Julia Tenbusch
• Wired Words by Liticia Makhloufi
• Picking Bugs Out of Ayesha Erotica's Hair in the Backseat by …

2025 Fall Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department

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Table of Contents

• Front Cover: Strangler Fig by Grace McKenney
• Letter from the Editors by Freddie Borer & Wrenne Grone
• i dreamt we spoke by Mary Koeppen
• What Was I? by Worthy Wilson
• Will by Mars Scott
• My Life Flashing in Sixty Minutes by Grace McKenney
• Creatures of Discord & Dismay: Failure by Liticia Makhloufi
• St. Anthony by Helen Darrough
• Creatures of Discord & Dismay: Guilt by Liticia Makhloufi
• Three Layers by Freddie Borer
• A Week of Thought by Mars Scott
• Contributor Biographies
• Q&Q&A

2025 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department

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2024 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department

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2023 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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2022 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department

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2021 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department

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(Trans)Form: Spoken Word As Queer And Transgender Testimony, Kaileigh/Wesley Strobel

Undergraduate Distinction Papers

(Trans)form will explore the importance of spoken word poetry in and for the queer and transgender community. Especially underscoring the significance of public voice in a culture that often wants to conceal or minimize the lived lives of LGTBQIAP+ people. (Trans)form will be a collection of self-authored spoken word poems that are influenced by—and in dialogue with—powerful transgender spoken word authors. The project will open with an essay on the importance of spoken word poetry and voice.

Leaping Streams: A Postmodern Epic And An Evaluation Of Becoming And Being, Allura Stevens

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

Leaping Streams explores the ways in which an epic poem form can be revived and repurposed to subvert traditional vampire narratives and mythology. I have experimented with writing in the genre of epic poetry, and I will highlight an unnamed, ungendered vampire protagonist. In an attempt to stretch the boundaries of the classic epic, I strayed from the typical heroic journey plot in a way that the protagonist is unaware that they are on a quest to become a different version of themselves. I also subverted the traditional epic meter in favor of free verse. Similarly, through attempting to recreate …

2020 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department

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2019 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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The Howl - Fall 2018, Kristyna Karbanova, Jerusa Cadorin Rovai, Eun Jin Jung, Hyun Jin Cho, Daner Xu, Reo Taniguchi, Saori Ishio, Momoka Ando, Gloria Kang, Yu Koide, Taki Migdady, Apple Tsai, Hide Iwata

The Howl

The Howl is a magazine that is planned, researched, written, photographed and designed by Otterbein University’s ESL and international students. The magazine serves to give them a safe space in which to use their voice to share their cultures, experiences and lives. If you are interested in submitting to the Howl, please e-mail your writing or photography to [email protected]. Enjoy Otterbein ESL’s contribution to the Otterbein community’s literary scene.

2018 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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The Howl - Fall 2017, Gwendolyn Derosa, Aileen Lee, Ellen Tian, Dehao Gu, Yujin Kim, Tomoyo Yoshida, Chen Wang, Miki Kimura, Kana Nonoyama, Eun-Jin Jung, Shizuku Shibata

The Howl

The Howl is a magazine that is planned, researched, written, photographed and designed by Otterbein University's ESL and international students. The magazine serves to give them a safe space in which to use their voice to share their cultures, experiences and lives. If you are interested in submitting to The Howl, please email your writing or photography to [email protected].

2016 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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2015 Fall Chapbook, Otterbein English Department

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2015 Fall Micro Chapbook, Otterbein English Department

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Who I Am Through The Lens Of Distortion, Mackenzie Alena Boyer Ms.

Capstone Projects

Who I Am Through the Lens of Distortion is a work of fact and fiction, mixing some of Mackenzie’s actual life events with surrealistic/dreamlike details. During Mackenzie’s time at Otterbein she has loved blending her loves of fiction writing and poetry into one beautiful art form. This project is a culmination of just that. Mackenzie has chosen to focus on her life as a college student, in regards to her memories and her growth as an independent adult, feminist, woman, and writer with distortion of place and time to spice things up. In this project she attempts to answer the …

2015 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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Übermensch: A Feminist, Literary, & Artistic Rebuke To Modern Patriarchy In The Institution Of Liberal Arts Education, Virginia Valenzuela

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

Übermensch: a Feminist, Literary, and Artistic Rebuke to Modern Patriarchy in the Institution of Liberal Arts Education is a multi-genre, multi-dimensional hybrid project that revels in and manipulates conventional forms of literary analysis, creative expression, and feminist politics. Through a feminist literary analysis of Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, accompanied by a creative companion of poems and personal essays, the author intends to elucidate society’s tactics of dominating, silencing and exploiting the female sex. In this way, her project intends to rationally and passionately describe the inescapable power of conformity in the lives of American college students, as well …

2014 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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2013 Winter Chapbook, Otterbein English Department

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2011 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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2011 Winter Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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2010 Spring Chapbook, Otterbein English Department

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2010 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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2009 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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2008 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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2007 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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2006 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

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