Creative Writing – Fiction | Marginalia

And so another school year begins…I can’t believe it. This is the beginning of my third year in the program, and it just seems like ..

Last week, I had the privilege of going to Pitchfork and working in the Book Tent. There, I worked with a few students in the differen..

I’ve been writing in my journal a lot this summer. It’s not something I do that often. The department encourages it, but it isn’t part..

It’s technically summer, but if you’re from Chicago or have lived here for some time, you know that “it’s summer” doesn’t mean much at..

I saw a rainbow the other day when I was in Florida. It had been raining on and off during the afternoon, which is par for the course ..

When you read this, I will be done with Spring semester.

WOOOOOOO!!!! I’d look more excited in that picture if I wasn’t sick right ..

We play a lot of games in class. It is meant to be generative and to help us get to that creative place where anything can happen.

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What’s been going on in the writing world this week?

Well, for starters, I am writing notes to all of the incoming MFA candidates i..

Right now, I’m starting to work on my thesis, which will be a novel. I’m in an Advanced Young Adult Fiction class, and something we we..