Month / May 2015

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  • List of Contributors – Spring 2015

    List of Contributors – May 2015   Fiction Yellow – Natalie Rae Mueller   Happenings Five Lessons J.R.R. Tolkien Taught Me about Fantasy Writing – Paige Farnworth How NOT to Write Spoken Word Poetry – Madeline Kohlberg Writer’s Block: The Cause of Creative Constipation – Andy Anderson   Poetry Enter Please – Lily Hauge Everything…

  • The Lamppost / / Mandy Pennington

    Runner up of 2015 Fall Contest

  • Little Boy

    Photo by Anna Brannon

  • Blue Watercolor of A Woman

    Author: Kristen Jemigan Senior at O’Fallon Township Highschool Live Arts Contest | High School Visual Art _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________

  • Loneliness Verses Solitude

    Author: Elizabeth Nisly Junior at Bluffton high school Live Arts Contest | High School Poetry _________________________________________________________________________________________ Divided by a narrow line Soft and light and hard to see The nuances are very fine Both involving only me Craving one, I fear the other Solitude’s uglier brother I fear no one will ever see All the finer points of…

  • Tiger Eyes | Who Am I?

    Author: Kayla Peel Senior at O’Fallon Township High School 3rd place Live Arts Contest | High School Poetry _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Ms. Kayla Peel was born in Bittburg, Germany to parents Robert Peel and Shannon Bhrrier. She grew up with four parents in the armed forces and was constantly on the move. She was taught the art of drawing…

  • Egyptian

    Author: LeAnn Schmitt Sophomore at O’Fallon Township High School Honorable Mention Live Arts Contest | High School Visual Art _________________________________________________________________________________________  _________________________________________________________________________________________ LeAnn Schmitt is a high school student who excels in the digital medium. She has entered her works into several competitions that range from local to international. She has won several awards, which include a week long…

  • Enter Please

    Author: Lily Hauge Sophomore at New Orleans Center of Creative Arts 2nd place Live Arts Contest | High School Poetry _________________________________________________________________________________________ Please, Excuse the mess. The shutters are falling off, The wooden walls are rotting, And the roof, Oh! The russet stained metal roof, Surely, it’s rusting away. Vegetation, There is none. The drought took it away, Along…

  • For No Apparent Reason

    Author: Sydney Osterday Senior at Shasta High School Honorable Mention Live Arts Contest | High School Poetry _________________________________________________________________________________________ Sometimes it hits me, And suddenly I’m overwhelmed with grief and sorrow that seems to come from an unknown place within; perhaps an incarnate knowledge of terrible things to come, But what do I have to be sad about, really?… What…

  • Paul - Spoken Word

    Paul’s Spoken Word | One

    Author: Bilori Paul Sophomore at Rock Island High School Honorable Mention Live Arts Contest | High School Poetry | Spoken Word _________________________________________________________________________________________ One It was like I was stuck in two different worlds 2008 I surely thought I was Superman Flying to Krypton, my planet. Sadly I crashed in the United States. I was an alien from a…

  • No More

    Author: Imoni Brooks Senior at Da Vinci Design High School Honorable Mention Live Arts Contest | High School Poetry _________________________________________________________________________________________ I hate the city. It’s a convenience for transportation and what not, but it’s not for me. I crave adventure. I crave the feeling and rush of exploration. I want to walk barefoot in the woods, not…

  • Stars

    Excuse Me

    Author: Lexi Baysinger Undergraduate Junior at Greenville College 3rd place Live Arts Contest | Undergrad Poetry _________________________________________________________________________________________ “I love that you’re that kind of black person” Excuse me? “You just don’t take offence to my jokes, I love that about you.” Excuse you. “Can I touch your hair?” Look at my face and dare to ask again. “Come…

  • time’s waltz

    Author: Mandy Pennington Undergraduate Freshman at Greenville College 2nd place Live Arts Contest | Undergrad Poetry _________________________________________________________________________________________ time’s waltz hourglass beach sand trickling trickling like falling off a cliff the tiny grains scream the loss of time ticking they used to live under rough, tan feet swept in and out by turquoise cascades violent some…

  • Salted

    Author: Madeline Kohlberg Undergraduate Senior at Greenville College 1st place Live Arts Contest | Undergrad Poetry _________________________________________________________________________________________ Salted you feel as though you’ve lost it, lying on a bed of broken ice – walk turned snap on a starless night blood stuck to nails and ice on face – blue ice crunches under swollen limits…

  • Five Lessons J.R.R. Tolkien Taught Me about Fantasy Writing

    Author: Paige Farnworth   _______________________________________________________________________ Anyone who knows me knows that J.R.R. Tolkien rocks my socks off. Author living or dead I’d most like to meet? Tolkien. Man whose writing I’d be most likely to tattoo on my body? Tolkien. Who cries almost every time she reads or watches The Lord of the Rings? This girl.…

  • Writer’s Block: The Cause of Creative Constipation

    Author: Andy Anderson Bio: Andy Anderson is a senior at Greenville College. He’s a double major in English and Communication, and has been the head content editor of The Scriblerus the last two years. Along with writing, Andy is a part of Greenville’s improv comedy team, Joyous Chaos. _______________________________________________________________________ We’ve all been there, we sit down to…

  • How NOT to Write Spoken Word Poetry

    Author: Madeline Kohlberg Bio: Madeline Kohlberg is working on her first novel that didn’t transform into a short story, and has high hopes to be able to continue that trend up until its completion.  When not writing, she’s a tutor, student assistant, big sister, one-match campfire starter and roaster of the perfect marshmallow.   _______________________________________________________________________ So, you’re thinking…

  • Yellow

    Author: Natalie Rae Mueller Grade: Freshman at Greenville College 1st place Live Arts Contest   Yellow They always paint nursing homes yellow. That yellow color of sunshine, or that new margerine that the world cannot believe is not butter. Everyone knows the color is a futile attempt to make the last place on earth any…