Bowdoin Creative Writing
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Books
Bowdoin alumni bridge age gap through writing
By Lucas Dufalla • September 17, 2021
When Anneka Williams '21 started her first year at Bowdoin, she never expected to write a book during her time at the College, let alone co-publish one with someone nearly 60 years her senior. However, Williams, who is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Climate Change at the University of Copenhagen, did just this.
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Music
Ariana Smith '21 releases new single "Nostalgia"
By Jade Cromwell • October 2, 2020
Singer and songwriter Ariana Smith '21 released "Nostalgia," an acoustic single, earlier this month. "Nostalgia" is Smith's second of two produced songs—both of which she released after Bowdoin's campus switched to remote learning due to the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Academic
Baldwin Center charts path forward in supporting student academic endeavors
By Hayden Redelman • October 2, 2020
It is officially fall in Brunswick: cooling temperatures, changing leaves and the beginning of essay-writing season. For first years, it means getting back their first college papers and potentially facing the disappointment of lower-than-expected grades. "I was really struggling to get a strong cohesive idea throughout my paper," said Ian Pratt '24 of his first paper on Plato for his first-year writing seminar, "Human Being and Citizen." That's when Pratt decided to make an appointment with a writing assistant through the Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching (BCLT).
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Writing
Bolster '19 writes subversive animations for the screen
By Elizabeth Fosler-Jones • September 7, 2018
Callye Bolster '19 spent her summer following four young recent college graduates as they travel in a van across the country—from Maine to Los Angeles—through the vehicle of her imagination. In her eight-episode animated series, "Vanity," Bolster brings to life four protagonists who are traveling to a Hollywood audition, engaging with themes of fame, politics and gender.
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Writing
Author Michael Paterniti talks process, travel and journalism
By Elizabeth Fosler-Jones • April 6, 2018
Michael Paterniti's work combines storytelling in its multiplicity of forms, blurring the lines between creative writing, journalism and creative nonfiction. On Wednesday evening Paterniti visited campus to speak about his writing experience and to read from his recent collection of longform essays, "Love and Other Ways of Dying." Paterniti doesn't see his work as strictly falling into any one category.
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Writing
Marzano-Lesnevich joins creative writing community
By Mitchel Jurasek and Eliana Miller • April 6, 2018
This coming fall, Bowdoin will add Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich to its roster of creative writing professors. Marzano-Lesnevich will be the first tenure track creative nonfiction professor in the English department. A former lawyer and the author of "The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir," they bring an interdisciplinary approach to creative writing.
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Writing
Past, present, future: Jennifer Egan on writing
By Rachael Allen • November 10, 2017
Eight years ago, Jennifer Egan found herself at a reunion for deep-sea diving army veterans, trying on a 200-pound Mark V diving suit. Research, the Pulitzer-prize winning author told a packed crowd in Kresge Auditorium last night, for her latest and fifth novel, "Manhattan Beach." Before signing books, Egan read the first chapter of the novel and answered questions about her research and writing process.
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Writing
Portrait of an artist: Carly Berlin '18 on writing
By Kodie Garza • November 3, 2017
Kodie Garza: What is the most meaningful piece you've written and why? Carly Berlin: Oh, that's hard. I think the piece that I wrote this past summer was meaningful in a lot of ways. This summer I was mostly only working on this story about Clarkson, GA, which is a resettlement area for refugees for the past three decades.
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