Advanced Writing Course – Page 2

IT’S JUST A BIT

by Natalie SharpePosted on April 4, 2019April 23, 2019Advanced Writing CourseFiction

She hits my foot from under the table. First it’s a mistake, then she beams up at me and does it again, on purpose this time. We both laugh. “What’s funny?” they ask. “Nothing,” we say. Her giggles sound more like squeaks. These moments with Jade follow a formula.

SHALL I PROJECT A WORLD?

by Claire SimonPosted on March 25, 2019July 24, 2019Advanced Writing CourseCreative Non-Fiction

On the music of Isao Tomita, communicative entropy, and coming to terms with a diagnosis

IN SEARCH OF ROMANCE

by Avi SerebrenikPosted on March 25, 2019April 16, 2019Advanced Writing Course

“What is Love?” asks every romantic hero ever. “Love is when you really feel it, you know?” answers every romantic hero’s best friend or mentor who has some authority of love or just guesses based upon some romantic thing they read or have seen. “What is Love?” asks me, and quite possibly most people in their teens. “

PARTY IN THE CLOSET

by Bryanna GaryPosted on March 14, 2019April 5, 2019Advanced Writing Course

On first—and second—impressions of the TV show Inside No. 9

WHITE NOISE, BLACK SCREEN

by Alana JamesPosted on March 6, 2019March 28, 2019Advanced Writing CourseCreative Non-Fiction

To what extent does a villain become a victim? Can you make a human out of any monster?

A SLOW SIP

by Lauren CunferPosted on February 27, 2019July 24, 2019Advanced Writing Course

Set in the rural Bootheel of Missouri Sharp Objects drifts through its story like the gooey cherry pie its characters eat sticks to the roof of their mouths.

THE WHEEL

by Zoe PattersonPosted on February 27, 2019March 25, 2019Advanced Writing CourseFiction

"The summer was hot, the tourists were stupid, and Coney Island spun like liquid sugar in a cotton candy machine."

MY MAN, INVISIBLE

by Mariah BellPosted on February 20, 2019March 25, 2019Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

I swear I seen you before / standin, shifty, on my block after dark / I swear I know you from somewhere inside

FILM AND I

by Shubh NandaPosted on February 19, 2019March 25, 2019Advanced Writing CourseCreative Non-Fiction

We go way back, film and I. In some ways there’s been some sort of relationship between me and the silver screen from way before I was even born. It wasn’t always positive.

HOW I TRAINED MY DRAGON

by Ally GorderPosted on February 12, 2019March 14, 2019Advanced Writing CourseCreative Non-Fiction

My own personal, seemingly insurmountable dragon was metaphorical Grief, it was now a part of me, and I couldn’t imagine a world where I would be able to domesticate the vicious pain.

A-LOS

by Zainab FloydPosted on February 12, 2019December 13, 2019Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

You are a walking archive / Carrying memories of the past stitched in your odd ensembles

PRIDE

by Xixi JiangPosted on February 5, 2019March 6, 2019Advanced Writing CourseCreative Non-Fiction

“We can talk,” she sometimes says, although we don’t really follow through with that either.

DITCHES DUG

by Benton H. MadsenPosted on November 28, 2018December 11, 2018Advanced Writing CourseFiction

"Ditches here were layered; you got a front-line ditch, reserve line, and then artillery just outside the ditches. Each ditch was only about five feet wide, but they went on for miles to the flanks. This ditch was part of one that went clear across France and Belgium. Some people take comfort in the ditches’ snaked length, in their womb-like innards and phallic shape. At some point in the war every inch of it had been moved."