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Ink, Sweat & Scholarships: Applying for the Kellie van Meurs Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing

The following article was originally submitted as an application for the Kellie van Meurs Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing. And I got it! I hope others find this article useful in their education journey.

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April 23, 2024

Articles Campus Life Creative

Poor Things: A feminist male sex fantasy

In the aftermath of this award season, I can’t help but feel sick to my stomach, and it's not just because of the catastrophic Barbie snubs. No, what makes me abhor this past Oscars ceremony is the Barbie snubs alongside the highly awarded fetishized porno masquerading as female empowerment that was the film, Poor Things.

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April 18, 2024

Film Reviews Opinion

What the RBA doesn’t want you to know about interest rates.

A number of my colleagues have been feeling down lately. When I asked them about it, they told me of a phenomenon called ‘Cozzie Livs’, shorthand for ‘The Cost of Living Crisis’.

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April 15, 2024

Creative Satire

Night of Fornication

By Mohith Kumar Gatla Two thieves,Ready to start the game,To steal each…

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April 8, 2024

Poetry

Leap

In those few moments, when I was three stories up, flying above the concrete with nothing tying me down, I felt a sense of freedom that I couldn’t attain anywhere else.

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April 4, 2024

Fiction

an ode to the sun

could there be a time more glorious than daybreak?

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March 20, 2024

Creative Poetry

Crouching Clover, Hidden Monkey

On the two separate occasions I’ve asked her about the time I was born—to get my astrological chart, as one does—she has given me different answers.

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March 19, 2024

Articles Memoirs

HOUSE OF LEAVES or, Postmodern Science, the Hypercube and Parallel Dimensions, and the Hypertext

House of Leaves is a weird book. It’s ergodic, postmodern, epistolary, and thirty other adjectives only used by wankers and nerds (me). It’s the kind of book that has academic papers written about it, and those papers have sections titled, “Postmodern Science, the Hypercube and Parallel Dimensions, and the Hypertext”. Seriously, that’s an actual chapter in this Buffalo State College paper.