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Title: A Dream of Burning
Author: DeMeglio, Austin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: A Dream of Burning takes place in a not-so-distant future of an alternate Earth. The story focuses on a young woman by the name of Iris Ode and her found family. The story starts three years after a great storm caused tragedy. After the storm, Iri...

Title: Adrastea: A Novel
Author: Lynch, Emma
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Adrastea is a science-fiction novel that follows Adrastea on her journey from the moon to Earth in a misguided quest to find her sister. Set several thousand years in the future, after the Earth has been destroyed by climate change, this is a scie...

Title: Amelia's Blog
Author: Santiago, Jennifer
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Amelia once deeply appreciated the online community that had formed around the blog of the charismatic writer called Rei Locke. When Amelia learned that Rei Locke had been lying about her life and inventing her accomplishments all along, she felt ...

Title: Curse of Time: Book One of the Agnavina Series
Author: Ku, Jay
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: This Master's thesis contains the first five chapters of my novel in the young adult fantasy genre. The story revolves around a young man named Kieran and will explore themes of identity, depression, and family (both biological and chosen). The no...

Title: Dancing with Ink
Author: Duemmler, Kristina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Linguistics, Creative writing
Description: The following creative thesis contains the first 100 pages of the historical fiction novel on the life of Lady Mary Wroth, the first woman in the Early Modern Era to publish a prose poetry novel. The thesis begins and ends in the year 1651. It is ...

Title: Degrees of Separation
Author: Vincent, Abigail
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Degrees of Separation is a collection of fifty poems which explore overlapping concepts of womanhood and femininity through ecopoetry. The poems focus on a speaker reflecting on her girlhood and the complexities of emerging into womanhood. They al...

Title: Dust
Author: Scheewe, Karen
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: In a culture dominated by Eurocentric traditions and narratives, there are many silences in our discourse. I seek to address the absence of multiculturalism in children’s literature. This creative project subverts the dominant white structure of o...

Title: James no. 764
Author: Quitadamo, Melissa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: Container No. 764 has malfunctioned and its occupant is awake. This was never supposed to happen. It’s to be expected such things would happen under a human’s supervision, but what excuse do the humanoids have? What of the Master Computer who was ...

Title: Looking Out From Another World
Author: McDonnell, James
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Looking Out From Another World is a collection of five short stories that revolves around Charlotte. It features characters who are experiencing dramatic crises, both from within and without. They try to make sense and meaning out of these crises,...

Title: Mara's Inferno
Author: Massachi, Dina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing
Description: Mara Weiss lives in her own private hell. Her father’s suicide left her alone with an unhinged mother. High school offers Mara no escape, and outside of school, Mara unsuccessfully clings to her first love. Feeling engulfed by rejection, Mara and ...

Title: Mark Ethridge oral history interview, 2019 May 13
Creator: Ethridge, Mark
Date Created: 2019-05-13
Subjects--Topical: Newspapers, Journalism, Mass media, Civil rights, Employee rights, Creative writing, Pulitzer Prizes, Television in religion, Investigative reporting, Byssinosis
Description: Mark Ethridge, a journalist, novelist, and media entrepreneur, discusses his career, with special attention to his years as a reporter and editor at the Charlotte Observer newspaper, during the 1970s and 1980s. He begins by discussing his first ye...

Title: Men of Violence
Author: Kessler, Cory
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: AbstractThe Cowboy Era in American history began following the end of the Civil War in the 1860s and lasted until the 1890s when much of the Western Frontier land was privatized and sectioned off by owners with the use of barbed wire. Despite the ...

Title: Needles and Dust
Author: Douglas, Charles
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
Description: Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, befriends the picaresque Vang Neng, who enchants Dena...

Title: OWL-MAN: A HISTORICAL FICTION WORK IN 16TH CENTURY MESOAMERICA
Author: Hartis, Andrew
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: "Owl-Man: A Historical Fiction Set in 16th Century Mesomamerica" is the start of a novel that aims to take both the reader and central character through a karmic process of rebirth as it would be viewed under the lens of Mesoamerican thought. Sant...

Title: Poor-Branded Women
Author: Goodnight, Melissa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Women's studies, Creative writing
Description: MELISSA ANN GOODNIGHT. Poor-Branded Women. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Poor-Branded Women is a collection of three creative nonfiction essays aiming to establish the idea that both morality and personal responsibility live on ...

Title: Realm Hopper Project: Out of Office, Into Hell
Author: Mauldin, Brandi
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: Cato and Remy are two demons forced to form an alliance when Cato’s life is on the line and Remy has no choice but to repay an old debt. They embark on a quest to find the Fates, the only ones who can set things right again. As they journey throug...

Title: Strength in Silver
Author: Seabrook, Raymond
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: ABSTRACTRAYMOND SCOTT SEABROOK. Strength in Silver. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Preliminary chapters to a historic novel, Strength in Silver follows the lives of three women of the same family over the course of more than one ...

Title: TUNNEL AND OTHER STORIES
Author: KURZEJA, PAUL
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: There are seven short stories in this collection. "Tunnel" is the story of a young man who must face the suicidal thoughts of his girlfriend. In "To Relieve the Pain," a son must make a life and death decision for his dying mother. "Beached" looks...

Title: That Southern Spirit: A Novel for Middle-Grade Readers
Author: Riley, Susan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing, American literature, History
Description: When thirteen-year-old Delta Wells arrives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to visit her grandparents, she anticipates the usual peaceful summer of seaside fun. When she learns that Pops’ beloved Island History Museum will likely be replaced ...

Title: The Acid Wielder
Author: Mair, Kathryn
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: The Acid Wielder is set in a world where magic users are being eliminated. The story focuses on a young woman, Harlow, and the deadly acid magic she developed. She joins the Resistance to fight the Regent of Trevail and stop the systematic sacrifi...