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Criticize Me, If You Please, Shaun'tae Swanson

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Butler Writers is an outreach of the Butler University English Department and MFA Creative Writing program that seeks to empower and amplify the voices of high school students in the Indianapolis community by connecting them with mentors and methods for self-expression.

Since its inception in 2011, this Jefferson Award-winning initiative has generated more than 1,800 mentee-mentor contact hours annually and served more than 1,500 unique students at our IPS partner schools.

For the first time, Manuscripts is proud to present a piece from a young poet in the Butler Writer’s after-school creative writing club. Shaun'tae Swanson is a sophomore at …

Spider Legs, Courtney P. Worley

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Poetry by Courtney P. Worley.

Retrospection, Jeremy K. Gruner

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Photography by Jeremy K. Gruner.

An Interview With Lauren Groff, Matt Del Busto

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Author Lauren Groff has written multiple books, most recently Florida (2018), a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Fiction. Groff, who is currently a Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, has received numerous awards and recognitions, including her novel Fates and Furies (2015) being lauded as then-president Obama’s book of the year in 2015. During her visit to Butler, Groff sat down with Manuscripts staff member Matt Del Busto to discuss the importance of failure, the morality of the sentence, and the dynamic between the writer and the author.

Anxietyscape, Jeremy K. Gruner

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Photography by Jeremy K. Gruner.

Someone Please, Tell Me: Was This Sexual Assault?, Kareen Casillas

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Prose by Kareen Casillas.

*Author’s Note: Please take care of yourself when reading the following piece, as it may be triggering. Contains images of sexual assault.

Phonetic Shock, Shauna Sartoris

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Poetry by Shauna Sartoris. First place in the 2019 Manuscripts Poetry Contest.

Chroma, Jeremy K. Gruner

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Photography by Jeremy K. Gruner.

8th Grade Search History, Natalie H. Urban

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Prose by Natalie H. Urban. Third place in the 2019 Manuscripts Prose Contest.

My Alcoholic Mother Died Last Week, Ian Hunt

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Poetry by Ian Hunt. Third place in the 2019 Manuscripts Poetry Contest.

Today I Saw Wolfmoon, Matt Del Busto

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Poetry by Matt Del Busto. Finalist in the 2019 Manuscripts Poetry Contest.

The Child Says Nothing, But What It Heard By The Fire, Tyrah Chery

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Poetry by Tyrah Chery. Second place in the 2019 Manuscripts Poetry Contest.

The Essence Of Hemlocks, Haley Huelsman

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Poetry by Haley Huelsman.

A Kiss Of Jameson, Sierrra N. White

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Prose by Sierra White. First Place in the 2019 Manuscripts Prose Contest.

I Carry A Torch As Warning, Matt Del Busto

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Poetry by Matt Del Busto.

Close To You, Camille Bates

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Art by Camille Bates.

Aristaeus, Miriam Berne

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Prose by Miriam Berne. Second place in the 2019 Manuscripts Prose Contest.

I, David, Courtney P. Worley

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Poetry by Courtney P. Worley.

Garden Of Tomorrow, Hannah G. Stroup

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Photography by Hannah G. Stroup.

Golden Hour, Tyrah Chery

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Poetry by Tyrah Chery.

Black Shadow, Shauna Sartoris

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Poetry by Shauna Sartoris.

I Don't Know Anyone At This Party, Camille Bates

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Art by Camille Bates.

Family Gathering At The Lake, Steven Miller

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Poetry by Steven Miller.

Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff

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Includes table of contents and editor's note.

A Literature Review On Substance Related Grief And Expressive Art Therapy Support Groups, Holly N. St. Cyr

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

In the year of 2017, 18.7 million Americans aged 18 years or older were reported to have a substance use disorder and the pervasiveness of substance related deaths escalated (McCance- Katz, 2017). Researchers have examined how grief experienced by substance users and their loved ones is often disenfranchised by social stigmatization, loss of support, and feelings of regret, blame, humiliation, and shame. According to Valentine, Bauld, and Walter, (2016) “bereavement following a drug or alcohol related death has been largely neglected in research and service provision, despite its global prevalence and potentially devastating consequences for those concerned,” (p. 283). Studies …

Universe Of Things: A Human Presentation Of Food-For-Thought., Madeline Halpern

Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers

I present this statement under three loose categories: People, Objects and their Environment. I consider People as human, Objects as art objects, domestic objects, and food, and Environment as the shared space of the former groups. Food directs this statement as I present each concept and creative process as a metaphorical dish. Material exploration carried me from a direct practice of reorienting acrylic paint and questioning object functionality through personified sculptures into theoretical thesis work in which I use interpersonal relations and the idea of consumption to translate tactile, gustatory and olfactory sensations into digital film. In this meal I …

Clean Slate, Richard Dinges Jr.

Westview

No one wonders why we return each morning, eyes half-shuddered, mouths yawning

On The Move, Jack Cooper

Westview

Arriving I caught the bus to the beach under a blue and white sky and sat behind five or six riders

Joking Hazard Brings Comedy To Snc

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Your Girlfriend Is A Boozy Animorph, Henry D. Goldkamp

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My shadow nearly dodges your ghost for an iced glass, again a gin to toast.