Tag: Writing

  • Expectations Unraveled

    By Claire Golden Last week I impatiently waited for the delivery truck to arrive. I’ve always been excited about getting things in the mail (it’s one of the things I can still enjoy even with lockdown), but this mail was particularly special…author copies of my debut novel were arriving!  Unraveled released on Dec. 14 from…

  • A Novel Concept

    A Novel Concept

    by Beth Royston I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, but I recall really starting to get into it as a hobby around the sixth grade. I keenly remember being confident that I’d have at least one novel done by the time I was eighteen, maybe twenty if I was busy as…

  • My Major Networking Opportunity

    My Major Networking Opportunity

      By Kellie Doherty The Write to Publish 2016 conference is over. Write to Publish is an annual writing conference, and it’s a great place to find some interesting contacts and meet some influential people. (I also organized it this year, so I may be a tad biased.) One of the great things about my…

  • What a Wonderful Year

    What a Wonderful Year

    By: Sharon Nellist This upcoming year at Portland State is the one I have been waiting for. Not only is it my last undergraduate year (hoping to stay for graduate studies!), but I am comfortably involved in various ways to ensure that quintessential college experience that I have been pining for all of my young…

  • The 51st Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Awards

    The 51st Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Awards

    By Shezad Khan If you’re looking to go to a PSU event this month, the Kellogg Awards Ceremony is just a couple of weeks away. I went to the Kellogg Awards for the first time last year when a writing professor insisted that we attend. Being an English major, I should have gone before. Not only…

  • Why I Left the Vanguard

    Why I Left the Vanguard

    By Shezad Khan I didn’t get paid the first three months I worked for the Vanguard. The director lost my paperwork which included some sensitive information. It was later found after I was asked to fill all the forms out a second time. One of my articles was attributed to someone else. This one really…

  • Memoir Writing at PSU

    Memoir Writing at PSU

    By Andreea Nica When I tell people I’m writing a memoir, they usually appear surprised and ask: “Aren’t you too young?” In 2013, I began writing “Freeligious,” a memoir and narrative nonfiction about my detachment from a charismatic religious sect and community. As a former evangelical, my gradual transition from the Pentecostal community spanned 10…

  • Have Pen Will Travel

    Are there any budding writers out there? Students who really feels they have something to say or simply like to give their opinions–maybe a restaurant, a favorite punk band, or perhaps a book or author? There is a class being taught at PSU that may be right for you. WR 458, Magazine Writing, taught by…

  • Warning: Feelings Ahead

    Emotionally drained, in a good way. This is not a frequent experience for me in college. Sometimes classes can be appreciated, in a distant, intellectual kind of way. Sometimes I am moved to laughter. But very rarely do I experience the higher and more vulnerable emotions in a classroom: awe, or even tears. I just…