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    • 6-foot pine: life and romance in the chrondemic age 

      Watson, Cliff
      6-foot pine: life and romance in the chrondemic age is a hybrid work of speculative fiction that interrogates attraction and connection in a near-future time of chronic pandemics while under the persistent choking ravages ...
    • A Nursery Rhyme from Another Summer 

      Thorlin, September Leigh
      Abstract: This thesis was written as an experimental memoir on abuse and recovery. It explores these topics through poetry, prose, and experimental non-fiction.
    • A Perfect Circle Rimmed With Gold 

      Siciliano, Samantha
      In Virginia Woolf’s essay on the Victorian phantom known as the Angel in the House (borrowed from Coventry Patmore’s poem celebrating domestic bliss) she wrote, “It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.” A Perfect ...
    • A Soft-Boiled Potato 

      Porter, Matthew
      It’s about as fun as watching paint dry. This play takes place in the home of aging drag queen Mizz Coral Durant as her borders with reality dissolve along with her relationship with man- servant Joey Boy. As the character ...
    • A Tiny Miniature World Where the Proportions Are Slightly Off 

      Burandt, Marina Rose
      I continually saw visions of a massive, black-roofed carnival structure being destroyed in the middle of the ocean. It stood on thin, wooden posts encrusted in mussels, and was intertwined with slides and rollercoasters ...
    • A Woman’s Mutation 

      Voss, Julie Isabelle
      A Woman's Mutation is a collection of essays and fragments about becoming a mother in the United States as a French woman in the middle of a pandemic. It touches on the subjects of mental health, motherhood doubts, legacy, ...
    • A[not]her Nature 

      Taylor-Hough, Deborah Lynne
      A[not]her Nature is a collection of collage poems (centos) written in response to environmental issues. The language in many of these poems is drawn from, or responds to, seminal works of nature writing in an attempt to ...
    • Anti-Parietal Epithalamus 

      Whitehurst, Matthew Livezey
      Anti-Parietal Epithalamus is a hybrid work of speculative fiction and visual art, a non-linear story that follows characters into a dystopic alternative future of 4023. In response to a time-space anomaly that has rendered ...
    • AOTA all of the above 

      Jones, Amy
      How is meaning made out of pain? How do you work through and alongside trauma and grief? What grows within a void? Questions of the self and its multiplicity, arranging and rearranging our lives and experiences through ...
    • Ask the Doctor, He Might Know! 

      Hauser, Nicolas
      This is the culmination of my own creation, a piece that represents what it means for me to be a writer, and what it means to be a person living, and dying in the world.
    • Asymptomatic 

      Noelle, Ashley
      Based on actual experiences, this fictionalized work explores trauma, its survivors, and the people in the trenches who are affected vicariously. Set in a psychiatric hospital, Asymptomatic journeys into the fragility and ...
    • Autoorthography: an exploration of identity poetics with poetry 

      Harrison, Aimee C.
      This paper explores a poetics of hiding through explorations of language, identity, and literary influences. My preliminary findings are presented as poetic prose, scientific descriptions and small memoirs. Though fragmented, ...
    • Bag of Flesh: MFA Thesis 

      Donnelly, Ellen Hathaway
      Bag of Flesh: MFA Thesis is a collection of short stories and poems centered on dysfunctional personalities. Using a range of voices, the book explores issues of identity and selfhood in restrictive societies. By employing ...
    • Bed of Leaves 

      Sweeney, Nicholas Lee
      When her brother, Arthur, disappears, Cassie is the last to see him. Guilt-ridden and pushed aside by her mother, her classmates, and the very community she calls home, Cassie is forced to seek her answers in the one place ...
    • Beginners, or The First Voyage of Discovery 

      OBrien, Sky
      Set in the swells of history, Beginners tells the story of Ellipsis, three dots with nothing to do. A visit from The Universe prompts Ellipsis to return to work on her island. She needs men–and God is sent to help. What ...
    • Behind the Curtain 

      Livadariu, Sabina
      This a testimony of dictatorship. A collection of personal memories and photographs that reflect the experiences of many. It is a look at the lives happening behind the curtain. And this curtain shifts its meaning throughout ...
    • Beyond the Curtain 

      Woo, Raelynne
      Beyond the Curtain is a work of hybrid autofiction that explores the facets of performance through dance in the studio and stage, as well as in everyday life. The speaker in the work navigates how her identity is shaped ...
    • Black Lake 

      Lybeck, Amanda
      Black Lake lives as a creative non-fiction essay, chapbook of poetry and video installation art piece, meditating on grief, loss, and the tenth anniversary of my father’s suicide. Born from a collection of poems, the works ...
    • Black Medicine 

      Hoffman, Andrew
      Black Medicine is a novella that combines elements of both the Western genre and the Gothic ghost story. The intention of the tale was to place the claustrophobia of Gothic ghost stories within the open spaces of the Western ...
    • Blade Against the Heart 

      Loomis, James
      An account of the adventures of Luke Muston, a protégé of Italian sword master Vincentio Saviolo, as he tries to find a place for himself in London in 1592. While it follows the pacing and rhythms of historical romance, ...