Creative Writing News

The following writing students were published in the Spring 2024 print issue of Metrosphere:

Shady Balcom: “C.T.E” (fiction)
Ashley Cabrera: “Echoes of Manitou: The Ascent Beyond Time” (poetry) and “Cosmic Reverie” (poetry)
Sariya Camp: “The Piano Lesson” (fiction) and “Things” (poetry)
Samantha Forsyth: “Star Scars” (poetry)
Avien Howell: “A Chiming in the Night” (fiction)
Nicole Longcrier: “Nothingness“ (poetry)
Katie Martinez: “The Great Ash Dunes” (poetry) and “Alebrije” (poetry)
Alice Moreland: “The First Snow” (fiction) and “Solstice” (fiction)
Grace Morris: “The Ouija Board Said ‘I Told You So’” (poetry)
Bryan Rustad: “Embrace the Change” (poetry)
Madeline Terlep: “I Am Nothing but a Dandelion” (poetry)
Alyssa Williams: “A Warm Embrace” (fiction)
Haley Williams: “Collaging Society’s Fragments” (nonfiction) and “Sea of Color” (nonfiction)

Connor Sandrock‘s poem “It Is Monday and I Am Waking” was published in Progenitor Art and Literary Journal (volume 59).

Katie Martinez’s poem “Rota Fortunae” was published in Progenitor Art and Literary Journal (volume 59).

Shady Balcom’s creative nonfiction essay “The Dogs” was published in Revolute literary magazine, volume 5.

Madeline Terlep’s short story “X” was published in Pink Panther Magazine, volume 14.

Natalie Gramer was the fall 2023 recipient of the Provost’s Award, which recognizes outstanding academic achievement and service. Her poem “The Tithe” was recently published in Shot Glass Journal.

Lizzie Des Rosiers won second place in The Writer magazine’s 100-Word Story Contest. Lizzie studied Creative Writing and was a past editor of the MSU Roadrunner Review.

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The Center for Creative Writing recommends the university arts, literature, and culture journal Metrosphere, where MSU Denver students may submit their work for consideration. Since 1983, Metrosphere has published over forty print issues as well as a variety of multimedia offerings.

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