Intro to Creative Writing (ENG 185) Chapbook Project

Fall 2020 Intro to Creative Writing Chapbook Project

Each year, students in my poetry and prose poetry workshops submit a small pamphlet, otherwise known as a chapbook, as their final project. They are asked to consider their writing as a body of work, often with recurring themes, rather than as individual assignments. They design their own book cover; give order to work written and revised throughout the term; provide an author photo; bio; and blurbs (a short statement of praise) written by two fellow workshop participants. This year, I invited my Intro to Creative Writing students to take part in this project as well. They incorporated not only poetry but also short fiction—all based on writing prompts I’d given them during the term. This year, due to Covid-19, all chapbooks were submitted as digital files. The end results were just as varied and imaginative.

Dzvinia Orlowsky

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Letting Go of the Unnecessary

Isabel Arnout
Where Do They Learn it All?

Duncan Brown
Mythos

Sydney Cahill
Words from the Heart

Daniel Cano

A short collection of works born from the heart as a thank you to the beautifulness of life, history, and literature.
Plentiful

Maeve Conway

This chapbook shows vulnerability and touches on topics that I deem extremely relatable for people my age. I enjoyed my creative writing class and the insight it had to offer. This project allowed me to expand my writing horizons with a mixture of poetry and short stories.
Growing Faster Than a Sunflower

Mike Foley
I Set Myself on Fire Just to Watch the World Burn

Madison Gilmore
Heartfelt

Zach Kapstein
It's Personal

Kate Laliberte
Sea of Stories

Ian McElrath
Wanderlust

Thao Pham
Astonishing Tales of Heartbreak

Toni Rendon
The Epic Tale of Me (and other not as epic tales)

Connor Rohan
I Have Been Thinking

Sara Vijfhuizen
The Lost Childhood

Thomas Zinzarella