Advanced Writing Course – Page 7

Goldfish

by Brian MagidPosted on March 28, 2017November 19, 2020Advanced Writing CourseFiction

"He is five years old again. He has only ever been five. The sun is bearing down upon his Brooklyn block. You could fry a knish on the pavement." Fiction.

A River in Winter

by Milena Elizabeth ErkePosted on March 27, 2017November 19, 2020Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

"What I am / comes in waves"

Two Poems

by Henry SheeranPosted on March 13, 2017November 19, 2020Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

"There is a picture of the three/ Of us, skin showing only/ Around the eyes eyes and in/ Water-streaks on our legs."

Ode to a Toad

by Bodhi MoriaPosted on March 10, 2017November 19, 2020Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

A poem for "a bandit dressed in boiled brown."

The Doppelgänger

by Stephen SpothPosted on February 24, 2017November 17, 2020Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

"We share a name, we share an arc/ I’ve tried to keep him in the dark"

Wambui Wainaina's "Biographical Fiction"

Biographical Friction

by Wambui WainainaPosted on February 10, 2017November 13, 2020Advanced Writing CourseCreative Nonfiction

"I looked for stories that felt close enough to claim as mine, yet distant enough to claim as “fiction.” My grandparents, Guka in particular, served as entry into a world I didn’t feel I had access to—a world of painfully real people with proper, lived lives."

Liminal

by Ezra StevensonPosted on February 3, 2017November 13, 2020Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

"At three am, everything is different. The skyline floats / on the east river while the emperor looms dark and silent. / Nothing means what it did when sleep fills your throat."

Dad

by Alice LiPosted on January 27, 2017November 13, 2020Advanced Writing CourseCreative Nonfiction

"There’s this photograph of my dad, from the late 1990s, in an old album somewhere on a bookshelf. He is standing on a rock, laughing. His hair is wavy, and he’s tan. The ocean is behind him. "

Sunday Funday

by Adam Tyler WolfePosted on January 27, 2017November 13, 2020Advanced Writing CourseFiction

“‘You ever see someone choke on one of those?' Vito asked the vendor, pointing to a hot dog. From the other side of the metallic counter, the vendor’s eyes slowly shifted up from his phone." Fiction.

A Performance

by Lillian MarxPosted on November 18, 2016November 5, 2020Advanced Writing CourseFiction

"She recalls a sweep of red, a hollow clanging bell, a smoky scent, a flick of hot spit or sweat flying out far from a bony, painted boy."

I See Dead People—Forever

by Molly LeGrowPosted on October 28, 2016November 3, 2020Advanced Writing CourseCreative Nonfiction

" I was a person who didn’t watch scary movies. I had no interest in them, and I had no problem telling whichever friends I was hanging out with that I would not watch or go to see any kind of horror or thriller film."

W is for Whitney

by Rowan SpencerPosted on October 26, 2016January 17, 2018Advanced Writing CourseCreative NonfictionMA Program

"It’s 7:XX p.m. and Andrew Cyrille is playing the snare drum with his teeth."

The Man

by Rosalyn LinPosted on October 14, 2016November 3, 2020Advanced Writing CourseFiction

"A diner is not the place to have a Serious Discussion. Stanley knows, okay? He knows. " Fiction.

Brutally Beth

by Jake NevinsPosted on October 14, 2016November 3, 2020Advanced Writing CourseCreative Nonfiction

"Beth has been in traffic now for a horrendously long time. She has severe road rage, the diagnostic kind for which she has a sponsor. She calls as I leave work to tell me this in her quintessential Beth parlance, her voice an odd but unambiguous synthesis of Bobby Durst and Lindsay Lohan."

The Hundred-Film Fall

by Mike WolfsonPosted on October 6, 2016October 29, 2020Advanced Writing CourseCreative Nonfiction

"Until my freshman year, I’d written off movies as 120-minute wastes of energy to be forgotten shortly after."

Confluence

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