Kirkland Memorial Prize The Erik Kirkland Memorial Prize originates from tragedy—the death of a promising young man in a military accident. If anything positive can come from such misfortune, this award, in some small way, accomplishes this. The Writers Institute wishes to thank John and Sara Kirkland for giving their blessing to the creation of …
tatiana winston ☆ erik kirkland memorial prize winner ☆ august is oversydnie a. howard August is over. Should I exploit myself again or sit with it? I have a drunk cigarette and think about how my friends are beautiful, how many people have hooked up on this grassy hill we’re sitting on, how terrifying it …
arabella mcclendon photographer and artist bios Avery Atkins is a senior Creative Writing and Advertising & Public Relations major at Susquehanna University. Though originally from Lebanon, PA, Avery spent the spring of 2024 studying abroad in Liverpool, England, where she captured the natural and man-made beauties she experienced overseas. Sara Rados is a senior anthropology …
arabella mcclendon houndingsydnie a. howard You’re like a lost dog in a graveyard, and I am buried somewhere, but you no longer recognize my scent. I bet on you a thousand times and still, I would pull the burning stars from the sky with my mortal, pale hands if it meant you would look at …
arabella mcclendon ☆ erik kirkland memorial prize finalist ☆ split in twostef leonard I am split in two. There are so many things you do not know about me, and yet, there are so many that you do. You know I cannot fall asleep to the sound of rain, and that my favorite color is …
avery atkins salt air and cigarettesemma ritter The smell of salt air and cigarettes curls into the shape of childhood memories in a way not even a photograph could. It’s thick and filled with distant reminders, as if I’m flipping through a photo album with each step down the narrow cobblestone streets leading toward the …
sara rados ☆ erik kirkland memorial prize finalist ☆ you think, therefore they arecelia lansing October 2023 When you open the side door to your car, the underside of the white metal is swarming with insects. Boxelder bugs, if you want to be exact. Clamoring over one another, they pool in the residual heat radiating …
arabella mcclendon we tell ourselves stories (EP)logan davila-sanabria SIDE 1 45 RPM STEREO 2715 Fragments There are fragments of art everywhere. All we do as artists is nicely organize those fragments we’ve picked up. If we’re lucky, the shards of our work will be organized into something new by someone else, and maybe even mean …
arabella mcclendon murmuros del alma en un suspiroalex vidal pérez El Despertar del Sueño Americano I stepped outside of the airport, and I already felt at home. The hot and humid climate from the Dominican Republic was as exasperating as I remembered it, so much so that it forced me to take off my once …
avery atkins essay 2024-2025 reading board reading board heads – sydney greiner and haley seitz reading board – sarah ledet, sadie leary, kaitlyn wagner, caitlyn wierzbicki, elizabeth bartholomay faculty advisor – hasanthika sirisena avery atkins – cover & masthead