Creative Writing

Jun 17, 2020 • Caitlin Burns

Rosso ’16M, MFA Has New Fairytales Book Reviewed by Mookychick

She is A Beast, a book of fairytales by Christina Rosso ’16M, MFA, was reviewed by Mookychick, a London-based feminist media site. The book, published by APEP Publications, centers around thematic issues of morality, patriarchy, and survival. “She is A Beast is a necessary text in the growing...

May 7, 2020 • Caitlin Burns

Graphic Design Students Help Produce Covers for MFA Students’ Books

Arcadia art students have collaborated to create book covers for the manuscripts written by students in the Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) Program in Creative Writing as part of a cross-disciplinary project. The project was spearheaded by Christian Patchell, adjunct professor of Visual and Performing...

Erica Rosenthal • Apr 17, 2020 •5:02 pm

Self-Isolation Reading Recommendations

Hello, friends! As we are all doing our best to social distance, I figured it was prime time to recommend some of my favorite books and share my reading list with you. I thought it would be fun to assign books to majors, so here we go. Creative Writing The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo If...

Daijah Patton • Mar 29, 2020 •9:34 am

VLOG: Blink of an Eye

Daijah Patton • Mar 9, 2020 •8:00 pm

VLOG: Writer's Bloc at Arcadia

I'm the secretary of a new club on campus called The Writer's Bloc. We wanted to create an inclusive, collaborative environment for writers to express themselves outside of academics and make awesome friends along the way. We meet on Thursdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in...

Daijah Patton • Feb 27, 2020 •7:00 pm

Discovering My Calling

I graduated from Collegium Charter School in Exton, Pa., in 2018. Until about two months before I graduated high school, I still had the nervous expectation that I was supposed to know what I wanted to major in when I went to college. I knew I loved creative writing and reading literature, so I...

Omar Odom • Nov 4, 2019 •12:09 pm

Embracing My Creative Side With Quiddity

I’ve been working with Quiddity, Arcadia’s online literary magazine, for a couple of years now, and I’ve got to say that I truly enjoy doing so. Quiddity is Arcadia’s gateway to the creative writing community. We publish digitally twice per year, once in the spring and once in the fall. ...

Oct 18, 2019 • Caitlin Burns

University Seminar Host Sixth Arcadia Poets Symposium

On Oct. 15, University Seminar, "Artist, Activist, Deep-Sea Diver: The Role of the Poet in Society," hosted its sixth annual Arcadia Poets Symposium. The seminar, taught by Dr. Ellen Murphey, adjunct professor of English, hosts a panel of published poets made up of Arcadia students, alumni, and...

Jessica Derr • Oct 15, 2019 •5:23 pm

5 Tips for Rocking Your First Conference

One of the things that makes a small school like Arcadia so special is that you are truly able to carve out a professional identity. This past summer, I was given the chance by Arcadia’s English Department to attend the Philadelphia Writers Conference. I was elated and honored to be selected, but...

Lashanna Bryant • Apr 9, 2019 •3:22 pm

Double Major—Double Trouble?

When I first started attending Arcadia, I was an English major with a concentration in Creative Writing. For most of my life, I believed that that was the only thing I was good at. It was what I was known for, so I stuck with it. At first, I enjoyed it in its singularity. I was okay...