Well, Well, Well… We Won an Award!
Runestone has been selected as the winner for content in this year’s Association of Writers and Writing Program’s National Program Directors’ Prize for Undergraduate Literary Magazines. The judge for content, Sharon Dolin, Director, Writing About Art in Barcelona,...
Ocular Proof, by Martha Ronk, reviewed by Corva León
Ocular Proof Marth Ronk Omnidawn Publishing October, 2016 ISBN 978-1-63243-025-0 80 pages Reviewed by Corva León The opening poem of Ocular Proof vividly describes a photograph and the actions of the viewer, beginning with “The tree azalea overwhelms...
Prompt: verb by Debbie Johnson-Hill
prompt: verb. assist or encourage (a hesitating speaker) to say something American author Jonah Lehrer once said, “Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we’re rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the...
Community Building Behind Our Screens
Why are you reading this? Why are you even on the internet? You wanted to build a community with someone. You wanted to reach through that ethereal bond of the internet and be able to say, “Yes, you get me. Please metaphorically hold my hand through the next episode...
Transcending the Syllabus, By Connor Rystedt
Why Overworked College Students Need to Remember that Reading is Actually Fun This isn't what it looks like. This isn't Just Another Blog Post giving you chic little tactics for how you can overcome the inevitable storm of finals-week stress. If you're anything like...
Three Things to Jumpstart That Wordcount, by Morgan Miller
With National Novel Writing Month just around the corner, those of us who are readying to participate in the 50k word endeavor are probably sweating bullets. If you're like me—a full-time college student juggling a heck-ton of work and just trying to keep your mental...
From Good to Great: Two Editing Strategies for Your Fiction
As writers, we all know that a first draft of a piece is far from the final product. It often takes multiple drafts before you reach a point of satisfaction. Even if you’re a big planner, like me, you will go through at least five drafts before you are remotely happy...
Music and Story by McKinley Johnson
Music as a form of storytelling has been part of human culture since time immemorial, and something as simple as a few note can tell us a lot about a person or a world. We can watch a love story unfold over piano with sparing use of instruments like in Pixar’s Up, or...
The Patron Saint of Lost Comfort Lake, by Rachel L. Coyne, Reviewed by Caitlin O’Brien
Patron Saint of Lost Comfort Lake Rachel L. Coyne New Rivers Press 2015 ISBN 9780898233162 168 pages Reviewed by CAITLIN O'BRIEN Rachel L. Coyne’s second novel, The Patron Saint of Lost Comfort Lake, centers around a woman learning to accept the things that cannot be...
We Slept Here, by Sierra DeMulder, Reviewed by Blythe Baird
We Slept Here Sierra DeMulder Button Poetry January 2015 ISBN 978-0989641586 58 pages Reviewed by BLYTHE BAIRD Sierra DeMulder reflects on recovering from the trauma of an abusive relationship in We Slept Here with stunning yet jarring imagery. This collection never...
Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit by Alison Hawthorne Deming, Reviewed by Sophia Myerly
Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit Alison Hawthorn Deming Milkweed Editions October 2014 ISBN 9781571314697 Reviewed by SOPHIA MYERLY In her fourth book of creative non-fiction, Alison Hawthorne Deming seeks to examine the increasingly tenuous links...
To the Next Step: MFA Applications, by Paul Patane
Applying to MFA programs can be a little like exploring the Wild West, especially if you’re not sure how the process works. If you’ve decided to apply to Master of Fine Art programs but aren’t sure what to expect or how the process works, you’ve come to the right place.
