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Title: A Dream of Burning
Author: DeMeglio, Austin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: A Dream of Burning takes place in a not-so-distant future of an alternate Earth. The story focuses on a young woman by the name of Iris Ode and her found family. The story starts three years after a great storm caused tragedy. After the storm, Iri...

Title: Amelia's Blog
Author: Santiago, Jennifer
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Amelia once deeply appreciated the online community that had formed around the blog of the charismatic writer called Rei Locke. When Amelia learned that Rei Locke had been lying about her life and inventing her accomplishments all along, she felt ...

Title: Dancing with Ink
Author: Duemmler, Kristina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Linguistics, Creative writing
Description: The following creative thesis contains the first 100 pages of the historical fiction novel on the life of Lady Mary Wroth, the first woman in the Early Modern Era to publish a prose poetry novel. The thesis begins and ends in the year 1651. It is ...

Title: Dust
Author: Scheewe, Karen
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: In a culture dominated by Eurocentric traditions and narratives, there are many silences in our discourse. I seek to address the absence of multiculturalism in children’s literature. This creative project subverts the dominant white structure of o...

Title: James no. 764
Author: Quitadamo, Melissa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: Container No. 764 has malfunctioned and its occupant is awake. This was never supposed to happen. It’s to be expected such things would happen under a human’s supervision, but what excuse do the humanoids have? What of the Master Computer who was ...

Title: Mara's Inferno
Author: Massachi, Dina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing
Description: Mara Weiss lives in her own private hell. Her father’s suicide left her alone with an unhinged mother. High school offers Mara no escape, and outside of school, Mara unsuccessfully clings to her first love. Feeling engulfed by rejection, Mara and ...

Title: Men of Violence
Author: Kessler, Cory
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: AbstractThe Cowboy Era in American history began following the end of the Civil War in the 1860s and lasted until the 1890s when much of the Western Frontier land was privatized and sectioned off by owners with the use of barbed wire. Despite the ...

Title: Needles and Dust
Author: Douglas, Charles
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
Description: Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, befriends the picaresque Vang Neng, who enchants Dena...

Title: OWL-MAN: A HISTORICAL FICTION WORK IN 16TH CENTURY MESOAMERICA
Author: Hartis, Andrew
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: "Owl-Man: A Historical Fiction Set in 16th Century Mesomamerica" is the start of a novel that aims to take both the reader and central character through a karmic process of rebirth as it would be viewed under the lens of Mesoamerican thought. Sant...

Title: Poor-Branded Women
Author: Goodnight, Melissa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Women's studies, Creative writing
Description: MELISSA ANN GOODNIGHT. Poor-Branded Women. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Poor-Branded Women is a collection of three creative nonfiction essays aiming to establish the idea that both morality and personal responsibility live on ...

Title: Strength in Silver
Author: Seabrook, Raymond
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: ABSTRACTRAYMOND SCOTT SEABROOK. Strength in Silver. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Preliminary chapters to a historic novel, Strength in Silver follows the lives of three women of the same family over the course of more than one ...

Title: TUNNEL AND OTHER STORIES
Author: KURZEJA, PAUL
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: There are seven short stories in this collection. "Tunnel" is the story of a young man who must face the suicidal thoughts of his girlfriend. In "To Relieve the Pain," a son must make a life and death decision for his dying mother. "Beached" looks...

Title: That Southern Spirit: A Novel for Middle-Grade Readers
Author: Riley, Susan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing, American literature, History
Description: When thirteen-year-old Delta Wells arrives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to visit her grandparents, she anticipates the usual peaceful summer of seaside fun. When she learns that Pops’ beloved Island History Museum will likely be replaced ...

Title: The Carbon Process
Author: Gunnink, Andrew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing, Genetics, Biology
Description: ABSTRACTAndrew Dale Gunnink. The Carbon Process. (Under the direction of Dr. Aaron Gwyn)Mark Bovert is a brilliant geneticist and plant biologist at MIT who is developing an experiment that will attempt to permanently fix the frailties of the huma...

Title: The Garden of Whispers
Author: Marlow, Mikayla
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing
Description: The following creative thesis includes the first 100 pages of a young adult fantasy novel, in which the child protagonist uses a creative outlet as means of coping with the challenges of reality. This thesis is divided into six sections with three...

Title: The Institute: A work of Fiction
Author: Lazzara, Mishael
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: A historical fiction novel set in colonial Belgian Congo during World War II, The Institute: A Work of Fiction centers around Mary Elkhorn, an American agriculturist who travels to a farming institute located on the Congo River. En route, Mary is ...

Title: The Mirror: A Book of Poems Dealing with Depression, Anxiety, and Identity, with Themes of Self-Reflection and Change.
Author: Clerico, Jake
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: This book came from the first poem I ever wrote, entitled "Mirrors." While nearly a decade has passed since I wrote the poem, I find it still relevant to my work as a poet today. Through multiple writing classes, I discovered that my poetry had ch...

Title: The Society of Capes: Egos Revealed
Author: Fisher, Jordan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: In Paladin City, superheroes have become commonplace to the ordinary citizens--all of them except for twelve-year-old Catori Powers, who spends all her time dreaming of becoming a superhero. She finally gets her chance when she acquires her own su...

Title: Two
Author: Nicolau, Nathan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Howl, the studious college student, and Ella, the free-spirited art school dropout, are one and the same. Both have troubled pasts they want to let go of but do not know how to. On any other day, they would have never met despite both living in Ch...

Title: Water in the Moon
Author: Rosenberger, Madison
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Water in the Moon is a new adult fantasy novel with high magic and mythical creatures set in the early 1700s in England. The book follows three female character perspectives, each highlighting the joy and strife of particular phases in womanhood. ...