Presentation & Publications
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STUDENT SHOWCASE OF PUBLISHED WORKS
The following is a small selection of recent conference presentations and publications by Hiram College English, Creative Writing, and Writing Minor students and graduates:
Matthew Mitchell (Class of 2020)
- Poetry Publications
- “lay me on the table + put flowers in my mouth” – Vagabond City, 2020
- “Two Etymology Poems” – Soft Cartel, 2019
- “i’ll be your dead bird” – Pandemic Publications, 2020
- and many more.
- Chapbook Publications
- “You’re My Favorite Garçon”
- “Neon Hollywood Cowboy”
- “Mid 90’s Kamikaze”
- Presentation: “Bruce Bechdel’s ‘Happy Death’ in Fun Home” – Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in St. Louis, 2017
- Honorable Mention: The Associated Writers and Writing Program Intro Journals Project
Alexia Kemerling (Class of 2020)
- Essay Publications
- “Detours of the Flyway” — Flyway Journal, forthcoming
- “In Memoriam of Rust” – Mud Season Review, February 2019
- “Part-Time Brother” – Timber, January 2019
- “What I Wish I’d Known About ‘Deaf Anxiety’” – The Mighty, June 2018
- Poetry Publications
- “Ode to Erosion” – Bridge, 2019
- Presentation: “In Memoriam of Rust,” Creative Nonfiction: Writing About Place Panel, NUCL 2019
- She co-authored “Hostile, Benevolent, and Ambivalent Ableism: Contemporary Manifestations” – Journal of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), 2019.
- She also free-lances for Ohio Travel Guide, Ohio Magazine, Heart of Ohio Magazine, and others.
Hailey Toporcer (Class of 2019)
- Presentation: National Undergraduate Literature Conference (NULC) in Utah, 2019.
Hallie Chavez (Class of 2018)
- Presentation: Twice during her time as a student at the Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature (NUCL).
Taisa (Tai) Chirovsky (Class of 2017)
- Songs
- “Someone You’d Be Proud of” – 2018
- “Still Breathing” – 2018
- “Falling Slow” – 2018
- “Stumbling Feet” – 2017
- and more.
- Flash Essay: “Soliloquy of New Job” in Dime Show Review, 2019
Sara Shearer (Class of 2017)
- Poetry
- “The Cottage at Tondreaus Point” – Botticelli Magazine Number 9, 2016
- “Perhaps you’ve heard about a WWII airplane resting on the bottom of Nimisila Reservoir” – 1st Place in Collision Literary Magazine, 2017
- Presentation: “Yoko Ogawa, Borge’s Ts’ui Pên, and the Importance of Magical Realism” – Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature (NUCL), 2017.
- Sara was also a finalist in poetry and fiction for the Hollins University Lex Allen Literary Festival
- Chosen by Literary Cleveland as 5 under 25, 2017
Paul Dickerson (Class of 2016)
- Nonfiction Publications: “No Until, No After” and “School Paper Headlines” – Semicolon, 2019
- Fiction Finalist: 56th Annual Lex Allen Literary Festival at Hollins University.
Alys Dutton (Class of 2015)
- Honorable Mention: The Associated Writers and Writing Program Intro Journals Project
- Chosen by Literary Cleveland as 5 under 25, 2017
Grace Baran (Class of 2014)
- Poetry Publication: “Gulls” – River Styx International Poetry Contest Winner, published in River Styx #99 by Big River Association, 2017
- Presentations
- “An Essay on Wonder Woman” at the National Undergrad Literature Conference in Ogden, UT
- Presented at Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature (NUCL) in Oregon.
Marzi (M;) Margo (Class of 2014)
- Book Publications
- “yr yr” – Ghost City Press, 2017
- “Blueberry Lemonade” – Bottlecap Press, 2015
- “Two Poems at Sea Foam Mag” – Sea Foam Mag, 2016
- Poetry Publication
- “Two Visual Poems” by M; Margo, 2018
Nick Sawatsky (Class of 2014)
- Essay Publication: “Thank You for Running from the Police” – Stumble, January 2012
- Short Fiction Publication
- “Nourish” – Baltimore Review, Fall 2012
- “Spitting Out the Pink” – RiverLit Literary Magazine, 2011
- “Little Deformities” – CP13 Thoughts, 2012
Brendan Curtinrich (Class of 2013)
- Publications
- “True Owl” – Gigantic Sequins, Issue 11.1, 2020
- “Problembär” – Appalachia, Summer/Fall 2018
- “Frozen Shores” – Footnote: A Literary Journal of History, Issue 6
Caitlyn Caldwell (Class of 2013)
- Presentation: “Virginia Woolf’s Mother Bird,” at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference (NULC) in Utah, 2012.
Roxanna Coldiron (Class of 2013)
- Essay Publications
- How to Save for Retirement in Your 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s – Martha Stewart Living, 2019
- What You Need to Know Before Canceling Your Landline Phone – Martha Stewart Living, 2019
- Student Loan Consolidation: Get The Scoop – PeopleJoy, 2019
- One Millennial Paid Off Her Student Loans, Here’s How She Did It – PeopleJoy, 2019
- and more.
Lauren (Dissident) Parker (Class of 2012)
- Essay/Article Publications
- “Raechel Anne Jolie on Class, Gender and Being a Rust Belt Femme” – Autostraddle, 2020
- “TruckSlutsMag is Making Trucks Gay and Reclaiming Rural Queer Culture” – Autostraddle, 2020
- “Wmn Zine: What It Means to Be A ‘Rural Lesbian’” – Autostraddle, 2019
- “A Presidential Beard” – Medium, 2018
- and more.
Jake Maynard (Class of 2010)
- Essay Publications
- “Trying to Keep Up With Grandma’s Love Life” in The New York Times
- “Slaughtering Hogs” in Chattahoochee Review. Forthcoming Fall 2019
- “Arctolatry” in River Teeth 20.1
- and more.
- Story Publications
- “Deer Camp” in The Pinch 39.2. Fall 2019
- “Pinned” in Bull: Men’s Fiction
- “No Ash Will Burn” in Carolina Quarterly
- and more.
- Poetry Publications
Rachel Wilkinson (Class of 2010)
- Essay Publications
- “The Haunting of Western Pennsylvania” – Harper’s Magazine, 2018
- “A Pittsburgh Church Holds the Greatest Collection of Relics Outside of the Vatican” – Smithsonian Magazine, 2017
- “Love in the Age of Reality Television” – The Atlantic, 2015
- “The Doctors Whose Patients Are Already Dead” – The Atlantic, 2015
Kristen Weidus (Class of 2009)
- Presentation: “The Female Epic,” – National Undergraduate Literature Conference in Utah, 2008
Grace Martin (Class of 2009)
- Presentation: “Music’s Connection to Class Status in The Mill on the Floss” – National Undergraduate Literature Conference in Utah, 2008
John Hartzmark (Class of 2009)
- Presentation: “Dorian and Faustus: Representatives of Their Times” -Susquehanna University Undergraduate Literature and Writing Conference, 2008
Ashley Nuzzi (Class of 2008)
- Poetry Publications
- “Saguaro” – Warbler, Summer 2008
- “a 77 year-old man with a hammer” – My Favorite Bullet, May/June 2008
- Her chapbook of poems was one of four finalists in the 2007 Wick Chapbook Student Competition, sponsored by the Wick Poetry Center.
Amberly Hyden (Class of 2006)
- Presentation: “The Sovereign Principle of Life: Images of Blood in Baumgartner’s Bombay,” – National Undergraduate Literature Conference in Utah, 2005
Alisha Heimbuch (Class of 2004)
- Essay Publication: “To Be My Correspondent”- The Rambler. (It was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Genevieve Jencson (Class of 2004)
- Poetry Publications
- “Dunkeld Cathedral 2 December 2004” – Whiskey Island, Fall 2006
- “Sweet September” – Whiskey Island, Fall 2006
Annie D’Angelo (Class of 2003)
- 1st Place in nonfiction in Ohio Writer’s Best of Ohio Writers Contest in 2003.
Jennie Dennison-Budak (Class of 1998)
- 1st Place in fiction in Ohio Writer’s Best of Ohio Writers Context in 1997.
Jen Hirt (Class of 1997)
- Essay Publications
- “Hear Me Ohio” – Essay Collection, 2020
- “Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy” – 2019
- “Students of the Route” – published in her co-edited Creating Nonfiction: Twenty Essays and Interviews with the Writers and won Gold in the 2016 Foreword INDIES Awards
- “Swinging Line” – From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines, 2016
- “Going to See the Body” – The Turnip, Spring/Summer 2019 and the Best American Essay’s Notable Essays List
- and more.
- Creative Nonfiction Publications in Touchstone, Flyway, and the Briar Cliff Review.
- “Under Glass: The Girl with a Thousand Christmas Trees” – won Drake Universty Emerging Writer Award in 2011, 2010
- and more.
- Chapbook & Poetry Publications
- “Too Many Questions About Strawberries” – Tolsun Books
- “Wreck a Sketch” – The Turnip Truck(s), Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2017
- “Elegy After the Jeweler’s” – Pilgrimage, 2016
- and more
- She also interviewed Scott Russell Sanders for Fugue, the University of Idaho’s literary magazine and has been featured in many interviews and magazines.
Paul Cockeram (Class of 1998)
- Publications
- “The Whiskey Admiral’s Lament” – The Turnip Truck(s), April 2015
- “Saving Mortimer” – Confrontation, Spring 2014
- “Life of Pi” – Salem Press’ Masterplots, November 2010
- Pushcart Prize nominations in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2015
- Several “Notes from Abroad” in Im-possible, a journal of cultural criticism
Elizabeth Cognard Wells (Class of 1996)
- Co-editor for:
- “Kindred Hands”: Letters on Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1867-1935 (University of Iowa Press)
- BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960 (University of Missouri Press)
Marnie Ellis (Class of 1996)
- Poetry Publications in Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, and Sonora Review.