Integrating the Lived and Written: Lessons Learned from Shirley Jackson and Sylvia Plath
As writers, our lives and shared histories all serve as fodder for our work. Not only does our medium allow us to immortalize these instances, but to process our feelings, cultural contexts, and preconceived notions. Even still, the act of artistic self-disclosure can...
Interview with Elise Hitchings: An Inside Scoop into Freelance Editing
If you’re like me, then you love the thought of going into publishing as your future career. But you also struggle to navigate the world of literary jobs, especially editing jobs. Where do you even start? Well, to give some insight on freelance editing, I spoke to...
An Athlete’s Guide to Creative Writing
Being a creative writing major, one could expect me to be writing five days a week. Instead, I get punched in the head five days a week. I’ve been training Muay Thai for the past year and a half and recently had my first fight. There’s a level of guilt I hold for not...
American Wallpaper: Misrepresentations Through the Decades
Being an adopted Korean in the late 1990s and early 2000s in the peak of boy bands and sparkly pop princesses was, for a lack of a better word, hard. Sometimes, I would cheer for the white brunette just to feel relevant. While all my friends drooled over Justin...
Disability Representation Across Literature: What Can You Do?
I have very weak hands, and I mean that quite literally. For one, I didn’t learn how to tie my shoes until the ripe age of twelve. Even as a college student, I’m dropping things left and right and frantically trying to cool off my fingers when they swell from holding...