Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major, and Student Managing Editor for the English Department On April 1, the Schaap Auditorium filled with students, professors, and community members. Soft conversations drifted throughout the space, periodically broken by bursts of laughter, forming an eager audience for Ananda Lima and Roger Reeves. The auditorium lights …
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Written by Anna Stowe, Hope College Creative Writing Major, and Student Managing Editor for the English Department Dr. Susanna Childress, DuMez Associate Professor of English, has taught at Hope College since 2006. Since 2014, she has served as an advisor of Opus, the campus literary and arts magazine, and in 2017, she became the director …
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Written by Candace Williams, Hope ’28 On the evening of February 17th, as snow blanketed campus, people filed into Schapp Auditorium. The rustling of coats and the stamping of boots obscured low conversations as the audience waited for the two Visiting Writers, both first-time visitors to Michigan. Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones was the first reader of the …
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Interviewed 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. After graduating from Hope in 2015, I got my MFA in creative writing (Fiction) from the University of South …
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 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 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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