Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department It’s 7 pm on November 13. Dusk has etched its colors across the sky, grayish-purply blues gathering in the shadows. The first stars glisten in the sky, soon to be obscured by dense cloud cover and drumming rain. …
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Written by Elsa Kim, Creative Writing and Psychology major at Hope College The warmly-lit seats of Winants Auditorium steadily fill with students, staff, and faculty. Golden light illuminates the stained glass windows, accentuating the wood paneling of the auditorium. It’s 7 pm on a Monday and everyone here is gathered to hear about the delights …
Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department The co-founder of the Visiting Writers Series, Jack Ridl, taught at Hope College from 1971-2006. During this time, Jack mentored many students and fought to bring creative writing to life on Hope’s campus. All the while, Jack poured …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department What class(es) are you teaching this year? What do you love about teaching? Likewise, could you describe what drew you to this field? I love helping emerging writers cultivate a sense of their own authorship and move in …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department What do you do now? And we’d love to hear a bit about how you got there as well. I am currently the lead agent at Pande Lecture Management (PLM). We assist event hosts who are looking for …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department 2024 Critical Issues Symposium The Jack H. Miller auditorium fills slowly. There’s nothing special about today’s set-up, only a lectern poised in the center of the stage. It’s unassuming, even ordinary, a design choice that soon becomes clear. …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Alumni Spotlight: Eileen Ellis (’23) What do you do now? And we’d love to hear a bit about how you got there as well. Currently, I am in my first semester in the University of Houston’s M.F.A. in …
By Anna Snader ‘26, English Literature Major and Political Science Minor On September 30th at 7:00 pm, the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series welcomed Heather Sellers, a former Hope professor, and Anna Gazmarian, a 2014 Hope alum, to read their work. After reading Devout by Anna Gazmarian and You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major and Student Managing Editor for the English Department For many writers, the name Heather Sellers is a familiar one—we’ve all used her textbook, The Practice of Creative Writing, in an Intro to Creative Writing class. This, however, is often the only contact we have with her …
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