A submission for Elegant Literature's August Contest

A submission for Elegant Literature's July contest

Written in December of 2022 as I began to come to terms with what happened to me during my senior year of high school.

Written in the car on the terrible road trip my family took from Maryland to Utah the summer we moved. Much of it still applies.

Initially written for a writing contest I forgot to submit to because I got Taco Bell instead.

Written by my creative writing professor's instructions to paint the story of an "eternal summer."

Little ditty written for my high school creative writing class.

A writing exercise from my high school creative writing class.

A personal essay told in the first person about a fairly melodramatic breakup.

TW: Told in the first person narrative, this flash memoir depicts the event of a sexual assault.

This personal essay won third place in the Lisa Anne Minakowski Memorial Scholarship.