Title of Capstone: We’ve Got Personality Cinder is reading their Capstone Project “We’ve Got Personality,” a work of prose poetry using the language of advertising to explore queer identity. Cinder is a Creative Writing Major. They are nonbinary and use their writing to explore their gender however it seems to manifests itself. While they’re still…
Presenting Marie Williamson
I am performing my poem called “Tenebrism” from my Capstone Project titled “Artemisia.” My Capstone Project is ekphrastic poetry inspired by the famous Judith paintings of the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. Marie is a Creative Writing major with a double minor in Art History and Literature. Ekphrasis has allowed her to combine two passions:…
Presenting Ronea Bailey
Title of Capstone: Sinking In Deeply. “My capstone project, Sinking In Deeply, is a work of a memoir with a hint of fiction exploring the journey of my writing as a black woman and my struggles with identity. I am a Creative Writing major with a minor in Psychology. My plan after I graduate is to develop a…
Presenting Shayla Harris
The title of Shayla’s Capstone is Mirror of Freedom. “This capstone project is a collection of poems, sound poems, and performances about the journey of finding freedom by looking at myself in the mirror. “ Shayla Harris is double majoring in Creative Writing and Arts and Entertainment Management. She is an African American woman and Christian who…
Presenting Sierra Brocklehurst
Sierra’s Capstone Project is entitled: Too Many Projects and Not Enough Time: A Writer’s Story. This is a hybrid work of narrative, prose, and poetry addressing the nature of writing from a fictional university student’s point of view. Sierra is a third-year student majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in Electronic Media and Film Studies…
Undergraduate Capstone Showcase will be April 21st
This year’s Capstone Showcase will be presented virtually. Writers will be featured on the blog and on the BathHouse Events Facebook page. The event will be “going live” on April 21st, with each writer sharing a selection from his/her/their work. We look forward to sharing the outstanding creative work our graduating writers with you.
In the wake of COVID-19, our April 9th Reading is Cancelled
Sadly, this amazing opportunity, a reading with Kiese Laymon and Aisha Sabatini Sloan, will not be able to happen this spring. However, we at BathHouse and the Creative Writing Faculty at EMU hope you will be able to enjoy their work from a safe social distance. Please enjoy the biographies and support the work of…
Winter Fiction Reading with Hilary Plum and Susan Steinberg Wednesday 2 | 12 | 2020 from 2-4 100 Strong Hall
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear guest authors read in the recently renovated Strong Hall. Hilary Plum is the author of the novel Strawberry Fields, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose (2018); the work of nonfiction Watchfires (2016), winner of the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award; and the novel They Dragged Them Through the…
Winter Fiction Reading
We are counting down to our February 12th event. We hope you will join us at our first reading of the year, which will feature Hilary Plum and Susan Steinberg on Wednesday 2.12.2020. The event will take place from 2-4 pm at 100 Strong Hall, in the recently renovated auditorium. Plum and Steinberg’s recent books…
In Our Words: Vee Kennedy
Vee, Graduate Student in the English Department of Language and Literature, is an immensely talented author and scholar. Vee identifies with the pronouns they/them and their, and their multiple talents thoroughly benefit three concurrent areas of study: Creative Writing, Linguistics and Compositions. For more on Vee, visit this article. In September, Vee shared their reading…